X - Songs for the Unknown
also in English
Henk Harmsen (1958) wrote several songs for the liberal religious community NPB in Veenendaal, The Netherlands. Original English lyrics were the inspiration for some of these songs. In this area you can find the English versions of X3 (I have arrived), X8 (Don’t stand at my grave and weep), X31 (Let there be light) and X38 (God be in my head).
Henk studied computer linguistics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He wrote a PH.D. at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (VU) about automatic syntactical- and semantic text-parsing.
He was head of the IT department (1993-1995) interim manager (1996-1997) and operational director (2000- ) of various institutes of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 1998 he went for two years to the UvA as a head of the library and operational manager at the Faculty of Science.
He is the primary 'booster' of various innovative IT-projects.
Henk is also a singer-songwriter and a 'self-made' expert on digital audio recording. Last but not least he is one of the part-time reverends of the NPB in Veenendaal.