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KiMuPe

Nijs, L. (2024). Bewegend lerend musiceren. Een kinemuzikale benadering van het instrumentaal muziekonderwijs [Learning to play music through movement. A kinemusical approach to instrumental music education]. Garant. ISBN 978-90-441-3933-4

Nijs, L., Grinspun, N. & Fortuna, S. (2024). Creativity through movement: navigating the musical affordance space. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2299159.

Bremmer, M. & Nijs, L. (2024). Embodiment in music education. Journal de recherche en éducations artistiques, 2, Special issue edited by P. Terrien & S. Chatelein, 2, 13-26. https://www.jrea.ch/article/view/4717.

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Nijs, L., Bremmer, M., Van der Schyff, D. & Schiavio, A. (2023) Embodying dynamical systems in music performance. Music Performance Research. https://doi.org/10.14439/mpr.11.3

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Fortuna, S., & Nijs, L. (2022). The influence of discrete versus continuous movements on children’s musical sense-making. British Journal of Music Education, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026505172200002X

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Nijs, L. & Nicolaou, G. (2021). Flourishing in resonance: joint resilience building through music and motion. Frontiers in Psychology, Research Topic on Eudaimonia and music learning, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666702

Fortuna, S. & Nijs, L. (2021). The Influence of Body Movement on Children's Musical Sense-Making: an intervention-based study. British Journal of Music Education https://doi.org/10.1017/S026505172200002X.

Bremmer, M. & Nijs, L. (2021). Lichamelijkheid in muziekonderwijs [Corporeality in music education]. In A. De Vugt & T. De Baets (Eds.). Muziekpedagogiek in beweging: Typisch muziek! (Muziekpedagogiek in beweging, Vol. 4) (pp. 49-62). Euprint.

Nijs, L. & Nicolaou, G. (2021). Flourishing in resonance: joint resilience building through music and motion. Frontiers in Education. Research Topic on Eudaimonia and music learning.

Fortuna, S. & Nijs, L. (2020). Children’s Verbal Explanations of their Graphic Representation of the Music. International Journal of Music Education.

Bremmer, M. and Nijs, L. (2020). The Role of the Body in Instrumental and Vocal Music Pedagogy: A Dynamical Systems Theory Perspective on the Music Teacher’s Bodily Engagement in Teaching and Learning. Frontiers in Education, 5:79. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.00079.

Nijs, L. & Bremmer, M. (2019). Embodiment and Early Childhood Music Education. In: B. Ilari & S. Young. Music in Early Childhood: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Inter-disciplinary Exchanges. New York: Springer.

Nijs, L. (2019). Moving together while playing music: promoting involvement through student-centred collaborative practices. In: St. Gies & J.H. Sætre (2019). Becoming musicians – student involvement and teacher collaboration in higher music education.Oslo: The Norwegian Academy of Music.

Nijs, L. (2017). Creatief met muziek en beweging. Het is eens wat anders.... In: Klankbord (4). Gent: Vlamo

Nijs, L. (2010). Muziek in ieders lijf. Enkele beschouwingen over DKO, muziek en beweging. In: Artishok (4). Mechelen: Muzes vzw

 

Musician-Instrument Relationship

A pivotal point in my activities as teacher and performer, was my MA thesis in philosophy on the musician-instrument relationship. In this thesis I conducted a theoretical investigation of an intuition that is shared by many musicians, namely that the musical instrument has become part of themselves. This work was the basis for all my following research activities.

Nijs, L. (2017). The merging of musician and musical instrument: incorporation, presence and the levels of embodiment. In: Lesaffre, M., Maes, P-J. & Leman, M. The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction. London: Routledge

Nijs, L., M. Lesaffre & M. Leman (2013). The Musical Instrument as a Natural Extension of the Musician. In: Castellengo, M. & Genevois, H. Music and its instruments. Sampzon, Editions Delatour France.

Nijs, L., M. Lesaffre & M. Leman (2010). Music performance and the mediality of acoustic musical instruments: an Activity Theory perspective. In: Proceedings of MeMCA, Köln

Nijs, L., M. Lesaffre & M. Leman (2009). The Musical Instrument as a Natural Extension of the Musician. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of Interdisciplinary Musicology, Paris, France

Music Paint Machine

Nijs, L. (2017). Dalcroze meets technology: integrating music, movement and visuals with the Music Paint Machine. Music Education Research, 20(2), pp. 163-183.

Nijs, L. & Leman, M. (2016) Performing with the Music Paint Machine: provoking an embodied approach to educational technology.In: A. King & E. Himonides (Eds.). Music, Technology & Education: Critical Perspectives. London, Ashgate Psychology of Music Series

Nijs, L & Leman, M. (2015). Creatieve visualisatie in de instrumentles. In: L. Nijs & T. De Baets (Eds). Muziekpedagogiek in beweging. Technologie als medium. Heverlee: Eurprint

Nijs, L & Leman, M.(2014). Interactive technologies in the instrumental music classroom: a longitudinal study with the Music Paint Machine. Computers and Education, 73, pp. 40-59

Nijs, L. (2013). Het effect van technologie op de reflectiviteit van de leraar: een studie met de Music Paint Machine. Adem, Driemaandelijks Tijdschrift voor Muziek.

Nijs, L. (2013). De synergie van muziek, beeld en beweging: relevant voor de instrumentles? In: Artishok (12). Mechelen: Muzes vzw

Nijs, L. & Leman, M. (2013). Interactive technologies in the instrumental music classroom: a case study with the Music Paint Machine. In: J. Pitt & J. Retra (Eds.). Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, The Hague, The Netherlands, July 17-20, 2013

Nijs, L., Coussement, P., Moens, B., Amelynck, D., Lesaffre, M. & Leman, M. (2012). Interacting with the Music Paint Machine: relating the concepts of flow experience and presence. In: Interacting with Computers, 24(4), special issue on presence and interaction, pp. 237-250

Nijs, L., Moens, B., Lesaffre, M. & Leman, M. (2012). The Music Paint Machine: stimulating self-monitoring through the generation of creative visual output using a technology-enhanced learning tool. Journal of New Music Research, 41(1), pp. 79-101.

Nijs, L., P. Coussement, C. Muller, M. Lesaffre & M. Leman (2010). The Music Paint Machine. A multimodal interactive platform to stimulate musical creativity in instrumental practice. In: José A. Moinhos Cordeiro, Boris Shishkov, Alexander Verbraeck, Markus Helfert (Eds.).CSEDU 2010 - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain, April 7-10, 2010 - Volume 1. INSTICC Press 2010