Henkjan Honing

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). In the same year he was promoted to the position of Associate Professor under Dean's personal appointment programme.

Dr Honing published over 150 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 further information, please visit the website home.medewerker.uva.nl/h.j.honing