Paul Craenen
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. P.C.A. Craenen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- p.c.a.craenen@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Paul Craenen is composer, researcher, Research Professor at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and University Lecturer at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).
After completing his master's degrees in piano and chamber music, he taught piano and experimental music at various music academies in Flanders for over fifteen years. In the early 2000s, he was the driving force behind pioneering educational projects on new music. His compositions are characterised by the use of electronics, corporeality and choreographical elements. He started postdoctoral research at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent and later continued it through docARTES, a doctoral programme for practice-based research in the arts. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 2011 with a musical portfolio and a dissertation on the music-performing body in contemporary composed music. An adapted version was published by Leuven University Press in 2014 under the title 'Composing under the Skin. The music-making body at the composer’s desk'. From 2012 to 2018, he was director of Musica Impulse Centre, a Flemish organisation for music education and arts participation. He curated a sound art collection, community music projects and a wide variety of musical events. In early 2018, he was appointed lector and head of the research group Music, Education and Society at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. His current research explores the social relevance of musical expertise. He supervises research, lectures and publishes on a wide range of music-related topics and is involved in several working groups and committees on artistic research, curriculum innovation and scientific integrity in the arts.
Research interests: music curriculum research, corporeality in contemporary music, embodied music cognition, trans-disciplinarity and intermedia, aesthetics, musical values, ethics in music.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten
- Craenen P. (2024), Reflection as interference. Eleven thoughts on artistic research as an interruptive practice, Forum+ 31(2): 4-11.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2024), Creative and social intentions in research proposals of music performance students: a reality check of curriculum discourse in higher music education, Music Performance Research 12: 95-126.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2023), Finalità creative e sociali nelle proposte di ricerca di studenti di performance musicale: lo stato dell’arte nel dibattito sui percorsi formativi nell’alta formazione musicale, Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (RATM) XXIX(2): 91-132.
- Craenen P.C.A. (Ed.) (2022), The promise of music: hopes and expectations in higher music education. Antwerpen: Garant.
- Craenen P.C.A., Toksöz Fairbairn K., Scott A.M., Tunca S.A. & Wentz J.A. (2022), Roundtable: the artist-researcher inside out: Strategies, methodologies, refractions, European Drama and Performance Studies 2(19): 97-108 (10).
- Craenen P.C.A. (2022), Zwervend muzikantschap : Nomadic Musicianship. In: Craenen P.C.A. (Ed.), Beloftevolle muziek: hoop en verwachtingen in hoger muziekonderwijs: Garant. 19-39.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2022), Nomadic musicianship. In: Craenen P.C.A. (Ed.), The promise of music: hopes and expectations in higher music education. Antwerpen: Garant. 19-39.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2022), Reaching out from music (Seminar Extended Composition). [conference paper].
- Craenen P.C.A. (2021), Kunsteducatie en Artistiek Onderzoek: van gedeelde problematiek tot bondgenootschap, Kunstzone: Hét tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur in het onderwijs (5): 20-25.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2020), Artistiek onderzoek als een integrerende kracht: Een kritische blik op de rol van het masteronderzoek aan de Nederlandse conservatoria, Forum+ 27(1): 45-55.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2015), Instrumenten voor nieuwe oren. In: Vugt A. de & De Baets T. (Eds.), Technologie als medium: muziekpedagogiek in beweging. Muziekpedagogiek in Beweging no. 4. Heverlee: Euprint BVBA. 43-54.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2014), Composing under the skin: the music-making body at the composer's desk. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2014), Speaking and singing in different rooms: Conceptuality and Variation in Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room. In: Gilmore B. & Crispin D. (Eds.), Artistic experimentation in music: an anthology: Leuven University Press. 275-280.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2014), Oefenen in cultuur, rekto:verso 60(2): .
- Craenen P.C.A. (2012), Instruments for new ears, ISCM World New Music Magazine 22: 96-105 (14).
- Paul Craenen (29 March 2011), Gecomponeerde Uitvoerders: Het musicerende lichaam vanuit compositorisch perspectief [Composed Performers: The music-making body from a composer's perspective] (Dissertatie. Academie der Kunsten, Geesteswetenschappen , Universiteit Leiden ). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Frans de Ruiter, Myriam Van Imschoot.
- Craenen P.C.A. (2007), Music from Somewhere, here and there: reflections over the space of sounding compositions, Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie 12(1): 122-135.