Dr. Vincent Meelberg

Vincent Meelberg is senior lecturer and researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and at the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts in Leiden and The Hague. He studied double bass at the Conservatoire of Rotterdam, received his MA both in musicology and in philosophy at Utrecht University, and an MSc in sound design at Napier University Edinburgh. He wrote his dissertation on the relation between narrativity and contemporary music at Leiden University, Department of Literary Studies. Together with Marcel Cobussen he founded the online Journal of Sonic Studies. His current research focuses on the relation between sonic practices, technology, and creativity. Beside his academic activities he is active as an improvising double bassist.