Marcel cobussen
Marcel Cobussen wanted to become a professional soccer player. He did not succeed. Too bad. Now he is both a musician and a philosopher. He studied jazz piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He teaches Music Philosophy and Sound Studies at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and the Orpheus Institute Ghent (Belgium). From September 2009 till December 2011 he was a part-time researcher at Lund University and the Malmö Academy of Music (Sweden), investigating the relationship between improvisation and nonlinear dynamic systems.
Cobussen thinks around sound and music. Results: several books, articles, book contributions (see publications), and an online dissertation Deconstruction in Music.
At home, he plays mostly free improvised music and (Japanese) electronic music. Otherwise, he enjoys fitness, traveling, and sleeping too. Note: he only writes about music he appreciates (not reversible). He lives with wife Ida and daughters Eva and Sarah, but loves rabbits, penguins, and camels as well.
So far, he is quite satisfied with his life.
Read and listen to an interview with Marcel Cobussen (in Dutch).
The main part of his job consists of supervising artistic researchers, most of them professional musicians. Cobussen’s publications on artistic research “Aesthetic Sensibility and Artistic Sonification.” In M. Schwab & H. Borgdorff (eds.) The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia. Leiden: LUP, 2012. “The Intruder. On Differentiations in Musical Research.” In C. Caduff, F. Siegenthaler, T. Wälchli (eds.) Art and Artistic Research: Music, Visual Art, Design, Literature, Dance (pp. 46-55). Zürich: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009. “The Trojan Horse. Epistemological Explorations Concerning Practice Based Research.” Dutch Journal of Music Theory 12/1 (2007): pp. 18-33. “Kunst genereert en transformeert kennis“ Science Guide.
Cobussen thinks around sound and music. Results: several books, articles, book contributions (see publications), and an online dissertation Deconstruction in Music.
At home, he plays mostly free improvised music and (Japanese) electronic music. Otherwise, he enjoys fitness, traveling, and sleeping too. Note: he only writes about music he appreciates (not reversible). He lives with wife Ida and daughters Eva and Sarah, but loves rabbits, penguins, and camels as well.
So far, he is quite satisfied with his life.
Read and listen to an interview with Marcel Cobussen (in Dutch).
The main part of his job consists of supervising artistic researchers, most of them professional musicians. Cobussen’s publications on artistic research “Aesthetic Sensibility and Artistic Sonification.” In M. Schwab & H. Borgdorff (eds.) The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia. Leiden: LUP, 2012. “The Intruder. On Differentiations in Musical Research.” In C. Caduff, F. Siegenthaler, T. Wälchli (eds.) Art and Artistic Research: Music, Visual Art, Design, Literature, Dance (pp. 46-55). Zürich: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009. “The Trojan Horse. Epistemological Explorations Concerning Practice Based Research.” Dutch Journal of Music Theory 12/1 (2007): pp. 18-33. “Kunst genereert en transformeert kennis“ Science Guide.