Henkjan Honing
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Henkjan Honing (born 1959) is a Dutch researcher and musician. He heads the Music Cognition Group (MCG), part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and conducts research in music cognition using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. The research is supported by grants from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO 'Foundations of the Humanities' programme) and the European Commission (Sixth Framework IST programme) both in the field of music cognition.
[edit] Academic
Henkjan Honing studied electronic music and composition at the Institute for Sonology (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). 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). After this he was affiliated with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (1992-97) as a Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) conducting research in the formalisation of musical knowledge. Furthermore, he has been visiting professor at the School of Music, Northwestern University (2004), and visiting researcher at the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York University (NYU) (1992 and 2002), Mathematics Department, Thomas J. Watson Center (IBM) (1996), Institute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) (1997), and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University (1995). He founded, with Peter Desain, the Music, Mind, Machine (MMM) group, supported by, e.g., an NWO-PIONIER grant, NICI / University of Nijmegen, Faculty of Humanities / University of Amsterdam, and a number of companies (see final report). Dr Honing published over 130 refereed articles in international journals and books on music representation, music cognition and music technology (especially on rhythm; see publication list). And he is Corresponding Editor of Empirical Musicology Review (EMR) and Advisory Editor of the Journal for New Music Research (JNMR). Dr Honing is affiliated with the Department of Musicology and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
[edit] Non-academic
Until 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. 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). Henkjan Honing is chairman of the Opera Noir foundation for new opera productions, and board member of the Jazz in Motion Foundation.
