Music Studies - Arts, Culture and Media, University of Groningen

This pop music showcase tomorrow in Leeuwarden might interest some of you. It is organized by some of our alumni.

✨ Uitnodiging: NOORD Artist Showcase Friesland NOORD nodigt je van harte uit voor de NOORD Artist Showcase in Leeuwarden — een avond vol nieuwe muziek, ontmoetingen en uitwisseling binnen het Friese popcircuit. Kom ontdekken wat er speelt in het noorden en ontmoet artiesten, makers en professionals uit de scene.

New Alienbaby Collective single “Breakage” out and streaming, the title track of the forthcoming album (out on 26/09). A song about transformation, perspectives and all things fragile.

Link in comments, pre-order the vinyl LP via: www.subroutine.nl✨

Release tour:
23/9 Cologne - Blue Shell - support for Preoccupations
24/9 Hambug - Hafenklang - support for Preoccupations
25/9 Berlin - Neue Zukunft - support for Preoccupations
27/9 Halle - Carola
04/10 Berlin - Hinterraum - album release show with full band
09/10 Leiden - Resistor - Vikendica festival
10/10 Groningen - Vera Groningen - Vikendica festival
11/10 Rotterdam - WORM Rotterdam -Vikendica festival
12/10 Amsterdam - OCCII - Vikendica festival

"Alienbaby Collective is the solo project of Liú Mottes, a guitarist and songwriter from Amsterdam, now based in Berlin. After years of bending noise and melody into shape in bands like Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, SOON, Silver Bones, Blue Crime & Slow Worries, Alienbaby Collective pulls that same energy into a more personal orbit.

Following the 2020 double EP Fishbowl / Terrestrial, Alienbaby Collective returns with Breakage, the first full-length album, out via Subroutine Records on September 2025.

On Breakage, Liú refines the project’s sonic identity — at once immersive and fragile — layering soft, understated vocals over restless sonic landscapes. The result is music that feels both expansive and deeply inward-looking, inviting listeners into a tangible space full of friction and tenderness. When lyrics emerge, they do so in flashes — evocative, dreamlike, and brief. The album explores what it means to be present in a world that is always shifting and suggests that there is beauty in the act of witnessing those transformations.

Rooted in years of collaborative noise-making and shaped by the solitude of solo work, Alienbaby Collective offers an album of songs that are a testament to what breaks apart and what remains."

Check out this concert and tour of the group Alienbaby organized by a prominent alum of our music track and program.

New Alienbaby Collective single “Breakage” out and streaming, the title track of the forthcoming album (out on 26/09). A song about transformation, perspectives and all things fragile.

Link in comments, pre-order the vinyl LP via: www.subroutine.nl✨

Release tour:
23/9 Cologne - Blue Shell - support for Preoccupations
24/9 Hambug - Hafenklang - support for Preoccupations
25/9 Berlin - Neue Zukunft - support for Preoccupations
27/9 Halle - Carola
04/10 Berlin - Hinterraum - album release show with full band
09/10 Leiden - Resistor - Vikendica festival
10/10 Groningen - Vera Groningen - Vikendica festival
11/10 Rotterdam - WORM Rotterdam -Vikendica festival
12/10 Amsterdam - OCCII - Vikendica festival

"Alienbaby Collective is the solo project of Liú Mottes, a guitarist and songwriter from Amsterdam, now based in Berlin. After years of bending noise and melody into shape in bands like Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, SOON, Silver Bones, Blue Crime & Slow Worries, Alienbaby Collective pulls that same energy into a more personal orbit.

Following the 2020 double EP Fishbowl / Terrestrial, Alienbaby Collective returns with Breakage, the first full-length album, out via Subroutine Records on September 2025.

On Breakage, Liú refines the project’s sonic identity — at once immersive and fragile — layering soft, understated vocals over restless sonic landscapes. The result is music that feels both expansive and deeply inward-looking, inviting listeners into a tangible space full of friction and tenderness. When lyrics emerge, they do so in flashes — evocative, dreamlike, and brief. The album explores what it means to be present in a world that is always shifting and suggests that there is beauty in the act of witnessing those transformations.

Rooted in years of collaborative noise-making and shaped by the solitude of solo work, Alienbaby Collective offers an album of songs that are a testament to what breaks apart and what remains."

There is an absolutely amazing international school coming to Groningen on Sustainable Cities and Cultures of music. We've tried to shake things up this time with a variety of interactive events and academic papers including concert crawls, inclusive jam sessions, soundwalks and some sustainable, earth friendly vegan snacks. Graduate students can still register for this school and earn 3 ECT for following the three days.
We are thrilled to host Professor Ellen Waterman from Carleton University as our keynote speaker who will discuss “Improvising across difference: Fostering inclusive and sustainable music communities.”

Registration is here: https://music4change.eu/activities/international-research-school-2024/.

And program info is here: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/artsinsociety/news-and-events-ais/2024-11-06-music4change

2024 International Research School Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music Music4Change offers a multifaceted international research school (3 ECTS) directed towards graduate students and researchers with papers, panels and...

This innovative radio station in Nijmegen is looking for interns.

Open Source Radio - Electronic Music, Urban Arts & Culture Wij zijn een Nijmeegs online radiostation, gefocust op Electronic Music, Urban Arts & Culture. We bieden een nationaal podium aan gerenommeerde...

Looking forward to our Gender and Diversity in Music Festivals panel this Wednesday at 17:00 CET, open to the public but organized in connection to the Gender and Diversity Assessment course in out gender studies minor. During the panel, we'll discuss strategies taken by popular music and jazz festivals to improve gender equality and inclusivity. It looks like it will be fully online, so if you want to join, please first register (if you aren't a student or staff member at the University of Groningen).

Gender and Diversity in Music Festivals Panel Sponsored by the Centre for Gender Studies How does a line-up for a festival appear if we take out all the bands with only male members? How many...

This might interest some of you: 1st Q***r Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

https://www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com/

Friday 25th June 2021


Invitation to Participate


The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group hereby launches a new biennial initiative, postponed from last year: “Q***r Forum”. This day-long event aims to catalyse new ways of thinking, being, and doing music and scholarship in and beyond the academy. As José Esteban Muñoz writes, “[w]e may never touch q***rness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality” (2009, 1). Yet notions of futurity seem even more ephemeral when considering the practices of the extractivist university and the current Covid-19 pandemic. Inspired by q***r and feminist theorists – especially bell hooks and Sara Ahmed - who are dissatisfied with the present, who wrestle with existing institutional structures, and who propose new modes of scholarship and education, we entice you to join us in radical academic experimentation in search for new horizons and potentialities.


The 2021 forum urges participants to recover q***r pasts and imagine new q***r futures, however fragile they may seem. How do we create time and space in the academy beyond the logics of capitalism to allow for us to muse and act alone and in dialogue with others? What are the possibilities for forging strong/vulnerable subjectivities and caring solidarities within and beyond existing academic hierarchies? What freedoms can we gift ourselves to allow for experimentation in our musical writing, teaching, and performing? How do we nurture and share intersectional wisdoms in ways that centre the health, well-being, and vitality of our communities and ourselves?


The day will include no formal presentations; rather, it will be structured around a range of different creative, intellectual, and social activities – workshops, reading groups, group work, interventions – that tempt us to try out new conceptualisations and embodiments of q***r music scholarship. The day will begin at 9am and end at 5pm BST. Participants are welcome to join us for a social event the evening before and also on the day of the event.


We welcome scholars, musicians and composers within music studies (including ethnomusicology, historical musicology, performance studies, popular music studies, theory and analysis, film music and musicals etc.) and beyond. The event is free. Please register your participation on Eventbrite by 3rd May 2021: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1st-q***r-forum-of-the-lgbtq-music-study-group-tickets-150894715155

The event is organised by Marie Bennett, Rachel Cowgill, Thomas Hilder, Danielle Sofer, and Flo Toch. For any queries, please email: [email protected]

1st Q***r Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group hereby launches a new biennial initiative, postponed from last year: “Q***r Forum”.

For the third year in a row, a former RUG student has won the IASPM Benelux/KVNM Popular Music MA Thesis Prize. The 200 Euro prize goes to Fardo Eringa for her excellent thesis "Being a Michael Jackson Pilgrim: Dedicated to a Never-Ending Journey." This year the BA Thesis Prize was also awarded to a former KCM (ACM) student Tessa Mol for her thesis: "Hey miss dj! Wat kunnen dj-netwerken doen aan het tekort aan vrouwelijke dj’s?". Both students will present summaries of their research at the upcoming Eurosonic conference. Details here: https://iaspmbenelux.wordpress.com/…/iaspm-kvnm-2015-popul…/

IASPM Benelux on WordPress.com International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Benelux Branch

The Groningen Student Big Band is looking for brass and reed players for the 2015/2016 season. Please audition if you play tenor or alto saxophone, trombone or trumpet! email [email protected] for an audition.

Please join us for the last session of the Music Matters Series this Thursday June 11th for a lunch time concert and workshop on the theme of Musical Theatre in Contemporary Life. This last Music Matters Edition (X) features nationally respected musical theater vocal soloist Mariska Oostijen van der Kooi and composer, arranger, and pianist Hans Kaldeway. Following the lunch time concert, we will hear a presentation by the esteemed Music Theater Director Bastiaan Roeters. We will finish our study session with a lecture by Theatre Studies Professor Laura MacDonald of University of Portsmouth on musical theater and globalization. The full program is as follows:

13:00 - Mariska Oostijen van der Kooi and Hans Kaldeway - Lunch Time Concert - Marie Loke Zaal

14:00 - Director Bastiaan Roeters - Swining Against the Tide: Producing Musical Theater in the Netherlands - Marie Loke Zaal

15:00 - Dr. Laura MacDonald - Singing and Dancing American Life on European and Asian Stages - Marie Loke Zaal

For more information please see the Music Matters website: http://www.musicmattersatrug.nl/.

Music Matters - Performing Music through Culture Music Matters X – June 11 – Musical Theatre Concert, Workshop and Lecture This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2015 by admin.

Please mark your calendars for our next Music Matters (7 May: 17:00) featuring American Studies professor Mike Foley who will talk about:
Kill the Hippies? The Legacy of the Sixties in American Punk. More details here: http://www.musicmattersatrug.nl/lectures/viv-mike-foley-may-7/

VIV (May 7) Mike Foley - Music Matters Kill the Hippies? The Legacy of the Sixties in American Punk In the United States and elsewhere, punk is an art form and related culture that is usually presented as the violent, nihilistic rejection of Sixties peace and love. If the Sixties are still perceived, at least in the public’s mind, in dec…