Leendert van der Miesen, M.A.

Leendert van der Miesen has studied Musicology and Art Studies at the University of Amsterdam and went on to do his PhD in musicology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His PhD project “Harmonies at Work: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in the Early Modern Period” dealt with the French scholar and music theorist Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) and his circle, investigating the production of new research tools, practices, and materials in musical and acoustical discourse in the early seventeenth century. He has conducted his research within the Berlin Collaborative Research Centre 980: Episteme in Motion and was a predoctoral fellow and guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Together with Viktoria Tkaczyk he edited a special issue of Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal entitled “Sonic Things: Knowledge Formation in Flux” on the relationships between sound, materiality, and knowledge. He has published on music printing, acoustical experiments, and echoes.