About

Marcel Cobussen

Marcel Cobussen wanted to become a professional soccer player. He did not succeed. Too bad. Now he is an (amateur) sound artist, a (retired) musician and a (moderate) philosopher. He studied jazz piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He teaches Sound Studies/Art, Music Philosophy, and Artistic Research at Leiden University (the Netherlands). Together with others he is running the one and only Sound Studies Center at Leiden University.

Cobussen thinks around sound and music. Results: several books, articles, book contributions (see publications), advisory reports, and an online dissertation Deconstruction in Music.

At home, he plays mostly field recordings, free improvised music, and experimental (Japanese) electronic music. Otherwise, he enjoys fitness, traveling, listening, and sleeping. He lives with wife Ida and daughters Eva and Sarah, but loves rabbits, penguins, wombats, and camels as well.
So far, he is quite satisfied with his life.

Email Marcel at MA.Cobussen [at] hum.leidenuniv.nl