Rémy Jadinon


Biography

Rémy Jadinon is a music researcher and curator of musicological collections in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and History at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. His research focuses on contemporary musical practices, with a particular emphasis on digital tools and circulatory dynamics.

He obtained his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Free University of Brussels in 2017 and has been Senior Research Fellow at the museum since 2018, having been a research assistant there since 2011. He coordinates numerous international scientific projects devoted to African musical heritage (TradiMusica, RIETMA, SHARE, ReSoXy, Be-Music, AFRIMUS).

Author of some thirty publications, he has made numerous field trips to Central and East Africa and regularly participates in exhibitions, conferences and activities promoting African music.

A founding member of the Belgian National Committee of the ICTMD, he is an associate researcher at the Musicology Laboratory (ULB), the Centre for Cultural Anthropology (ULB), and UMR 7206 Eco-anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris), and teaches at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.