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A paper together with Barbara Tillmann appeared in Brain Research. Here is an audioslides presentation summarising the main findings:
- I defended my PhD thesis Sounds on time: auditory feedback in motor learning, re-learning and over-learning on the 27th of November 2013. If you want to read it, the book is available online.
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Fresh from the press: a paper showing that pianists can be recognised by timing irregularities in the order of milliseconds, inaudible to the human ear! Check out the paper here. To the left here you see an illustration of this pianistic fingerprint made by Vera Scepanovic. Zeit Magazine published a commentary: Die persoenliche Note (sorry, German only).
Also, here is a video that explains how we can use a simple classifier to recognise pianists:
. A single musical phrase can be divided into several motor chunks, and we propose a novel analysis that segments irregularities in timing into consistent and variable components. Have a look at the paper in Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.
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We decided to make a presentation video for the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine in Hanover, featuring all of the wonderful people I work with on a daily basis. Enjoy:

- One of the little jewels hidden in the music literature, Purcell’s Bid the virtues, performed together with the wonderful Sandra Collet and Julien Dubruque.
My Master’s thesis was on how you process words over time. We managed to gain insight into this by looking at how people point at responses in a simple Stroop task. This work was done at the CAV-lab in Paris with Patrick Cavanagh. Here is a video of all the response trajectories of one subject:
Learn more? Here is the paper: pdf.- Albinoni wrote an incredible Concerto a cinque from which you can listen to the Adagio here below, performed together with the Concert Latin, a baroque ensemble of the ENS Paris.
You can listen to an air Ich will auf den Herren schauen (from Cantata BWV93), sung by Sandra Collet and I played the oboe together with the Concert Latin at a concert at the Sorbonne.
A short movie showing the history of the Kromhout barracks that were finally converted into the University College Utrecht campus.
- During my Bachelor I wrote a thesis on independence results related to Kruskal’s theorem in mathematical logic, with the very kind supervisor Andreas Weiermann.
- A Japanese traditional song that pays homage to the cherry blosoms can be found at the Sheet Music Vault.
A complete curriculum vitae.