Floris Schuiling

Dr. Floris Schuiling is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Utrecht University's Department of Media and Culture Studies within the Faculty of Humanities. He specializes in performance studies, with particular focus on improvisation, music notation, and postcolonial theory. His research examines how musical performance has evolved in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially through technology, notation, and racial dynamics.

• Current ERC-funded project on postwar European improvised music in postcolonial contexts
• Developed 'Notation Cultures' framework through NWO Veni grant
• PhD research on Dutch improvising collective The Instant Composers Pool
• Regular speaker at international conferences (RMA, SEM, IMS, Rhythm Changes)

His work bridges anthropology of material culture and musicology, problematizing traditional notation's dominance through case studies spanning classical, popular, and world music traditions. Recent activities include organizing the 2022 Lorentz Centre Workshop and 2020 Music Performance Research Platform.

Scientific recognition includes:

• ERC Starting Grant (2022)
• NWO Veni Grant (2017-2020)

Active in consultancy for Dutch music institutions and organizer of major conferences, Schuiling's research challenges Eurocentric paradigms while developing new frameworks for understanding notation's role in creative processes.