Sander van Maas

is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the London College of Music. He has held positions at Utrecht University (Endowed Chair of contemporary composed music), the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam. In 2010–2011 he was Visiting Associate Professor of Musicology at Boston University and visiting scholar at Harvard University. He authored The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen’s Breakthrough toward the Beyond (with Fordham University Press, New York, 2009) and edited several volumes including Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space (Fordham UP, 2015) and Contemporary Music and Spirituality (Ashgate, 2015). Van Maas is former Chairman of the Dutch Association of Aesthetics and was founding editor of the journal Esthetica: Tijdschrift voor Kunst en Filosofie. Currently, he is member of the Dutch Council for Culture (Raad voor Cultuur) and works as a consultant for major cultural institutions around Europe. 

Forthcoming with Fordham UP, New York, Spring 2015.

“Thresholds of Listening intervenes into an extraordinarily wide range of subjects, from masochism and torture at one extreme to Cage and Kafka at the other. Chapters zoom by at high speed, covering enormous ground and wrestling on all fronts with music’s potential value as a transformative biopolitical praxis. The level of scholarship is excellent and van Maas’s cast of contributors includes stellar names alongside emerging scholars. This is less a book about listening to music than a virtuosic inquiry into the relationships between listening, hearing, sound, space and an investigation of the limits of the human body.”—Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music

Fordham University Press, New York, 2009.

"If the idea that religious music is a thing of the past helps you sleep better, Sander van Maas' provocative book [The Reinvention of Religious Music] should wake you up. Did you ever think that an ear could be circumcised? From the Bible to Messiaen and Derrida, he radically rethinks the relationships between ear and flesh."—Peter Szendy, Université de Paris X Nanterre

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