SWARMUSE

Publications

Bremmer, M. & Nijs, L. (2024). Embodiment in music education. Journal de recherche en éducations artistiques, 2, Special issue edited by P. Terrien & S. Chatelein, 2, 13-26. https://www.jrea.ch/article/view/4717.  

Leman, M. (2016). The expressive moment: How interaction (with music) shapes human empowerment. MIT press.

Nijs, L. & Bremmer, M. (2026). Towards an embodied instrumental music pedagogy: creativity through embodied affordance navigation. In B. Föllmi & E. Pineda (2026), Musique et transmission à la lumière des sciences cognitives. Éditions des Archives Contemporaines. ISBN : 9782813005748. https://eac.ac/publications/9782813005748 

Nijs, L. (2025). Fostering a synergy between the development of well-being and musicianship: a kinemusical perspective. Submitted to Education Sciences, 15(9), 1245. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15091245

Nijs, L. (2024). Bewegend lerend musiceren. Een kinemuzikale benadering van het instrumentaal muziekonderwijs [Learning to play music through movement. A kinemusical approach to instrumental music education]. Garant. ISBN 978-90-441-3933-4

Nijs, L., Grinspun, N. & Fortuna, S. (2024). Creativity through movement: navigating the musical affordance space. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2299159. 

Nijs, L., Bremmer, M., Van der Schyff, D. & Schiavio, A. (2023). Embodying dynamical systems in music performance. Music Performance Research. https://doi.org/10.14439/mpr.11.3

Nijs, L. (2019). Moving together while playing music: promoting involvement through student-centred collaborative practices. In St. Gies & J.H. Sætre (Eds.), Becoming musicians – student involvement and teacher collaboration in higher music education. Oslo: The Norwegian Academy of Music.

Parr, T., Pezzulo, G., & Friston, K. J. (2022). Active inference: the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior. MIT Press.

Renshaw, I., Davids, K., Newcombe, D., & Roberts, W. (2019). The constraints-led approach: Principles for sports coaching and practice design. Routledge.