Henkjan Honing Born in Hilversum in the Netherlands in 1959, I am currently an Associate Professor in Music Cognition and affiliated with the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). My research is in the field known as music cognition with a special focus on the temporal aspects of music (such as rhythm, timing, and tempo) using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. Recent topics are concerned with the role of perception, attention, and memory in music listening, as well as the role of these cognitive mechanisms in the origins of music. The research is currently supported by grants from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) and the European Commission (Sixth Framework IST programme) both in the field of music cognition (See research in the menu on the left).

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Curriculum Vitae

Academic

Henkjan Honing studied electronic music and composition at the Institute for Sonology, Utrecht University (1981-84) and at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University (1984). He received his PhD in Music (on the representation of time and temporal structure in music) from City University, London (1991). At the same time he conducted research on connectionist models and knowledge representation at the Centre for Knowledge Technology (1986-92) and the Music Department, City University, London (1988-90), funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In 1992 Dr Honing became Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), affiliated with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam working on the formalisation of musical knowledge (1992-97). In 1997 he founded, with dr ir Peter Desain, the Music, Mind, Machine (MMM) group, supported by an NWO-PIONIER grant, NICI / University of Nijmegen, Faculty of Humanities / University of Amsterdam, and a number of companies. This ambitious project finalized in 2003 (see final report). In 2007 Dr Honing was elected Vice-President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) for a period of three years. In the same year he was promoted to the position of Associate Professor under Dean's personal appointment programme. Dr Honing published over 160 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and books on music cognition, music representation and music technology (see publications or ISI Web of Knowledge citation report). His editorial functions include being Corresponding Editor for Music Perception (MP) and Empirical Musicology Review (EMR), and Advisory Editor of the Journal for New Music Research (JNMR), as well as occasional reviews for journals like Music Theory Spectrum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychology Science, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Cognitive Science and Cognition. Honing is currently working on Rhythm and Timing in Music, a chapter in the 3rd Revised Edition of Psychology of Music. Dr Honing is currently Associate Professor in Music Cognition affiliated with the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

For more information, see detailed CV.

Photo by Eduard Lampe (UvA)

 

Non-academic

Till 1992 Henkjan Honing was active as a musician (e.g., with his own quartet, winner of the 1978 NOS Jazz podium; a profession more successfully pursued by his brother Yuri Honing), and as a composer and performer of new music, composing computer music and constructing sound installations that were presented in museums and galleries in the Netherlands and abroad (see compositions). Furthermore, he was member of the gamelan ensembles Gending (new music for gamelan), Raras Budaya (Javanese shadow play performances), and Wido Sari (Javanese chamber music). Currently, he is fan --musically, and all for different reasons-- of Glenn Gould (one of a kind), Conlon Nancarrow (brilliant pianola compositions), Brad Mehldau (a jazz pianist with two hands), Meshell Ndegeocello (a true musician), Björk (great sense of melody and harmony), Elis Regina (the first Brasilian singer I heard), Yuri Honing (prove that a mix of musical cultures -version of Björk's Isobel- for an electric band can really work), Floris van Manen (a real listener), Mariecke van der Linden (she is opera), to mention a few. Henkjan Honing is chairman of the Opera Noir foundation for new opera productions, and board member of the Jazz in Motion Foundation.

See also personal photo album.

Affiliation

Henkjan Honing is affiliated with the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) where directs the Music Cognition Group.

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