Evert's World of Music

I would like to write a little follow-up on the previous blog on public space. I was in Kazakhstan this summer, at the bi-yearly world confe...

It is summer, which means it is the time of the aggressive occupation of our public aural space. This implies that at least in the weekends,...

I am, with 650 others, in Astana to visit the 43rd world conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, my beloved professio...

It's been a while - busy times, end of the year, you know how it goes. Soon I'm off to Kazakhstan to present a paper at the world...

Yesterday I was at Groningen's 'Night of Art & Science' to give a presentation on the functions of music in everyday life. ...

I was in a symposium some time ago on the use of music in care settings: in settings where music is used by professional musicians, music th...

You may think: so what? But the level of so-what-ness is quite low if you happen to live where I live, a village up-North bordering the ci...