[1] Marcel Cobussen can be contacted at M.A.Cobussen@umail.leidenuniv.nl

[2] Marcel Cobussen wanted to become a professional soccer player. He did not succeed. Too bad. Now he is both a musician and a philosopher. He studied jazz piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). When he is not busy writing about music and (post-structuralist) philosophy, he teaches music philosophy and cultural theory at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and the Orpheus Institute Ghent (Belgium). From March 2007 until October 2008 he is supervising two Ph.D. candidates at the Malmö conservatoire. At home, he plays mostly free improvised music. Otherwise, he enjoys fitness, traveling, and sleeping too. Note: he only writes about music he appreciates (not reversible).
He lives with wife Ida and daughter Eva but loves rabbits, penguins and camels as well.
So far, he is quite satisfied with his life.

[3] In particular for his Ph.D dissertation Deconstruction in Music, Marcel Cobussen composed a simple framework, Intermezzo, which can function as the initial impetus to some improvisations. Several possible outcomes of this ‘composition’ can be heard on a CD of the same name, all played by two of the most outstanding Dutch improvisers, cellist Ernst Reijseger and trumpet player Eric Vloeimans.
You can order this CD for $10 by sending an email to Marcel Cobussen.