Our mission is to transform the making and understanding of music, through pioneering research and innovation. The artist’s voice is vital in contributing to human knowledge and in co-creating our future world. Rooted in artistic research, the Instituut aims to be at the forefront of music research from the perspective of the practitioner.
Orpheus Instituut brings together the sharpest minds to address the most challenging questions in music, relating to societal change, technological development, connections between past and future, and the nature of knowledge through music. Our artist researchers work across disciplinary barriers to explore and articulate new modes of knowledge and practice.
Creativity and experimentation are at the heart of our research; as an independent institution we are free to be driven by curiosity. We strive for artistic and research excellence in everything we do. Through continuously rethinking and remaking the practices of music we contribute to the evolving cultural richness and diversity of society, proposing insights that only music-centric research can offer.