Safeya Alblooshi will started an appointment as Research Assistant at the Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) Research Group on November 21 for a period of three years
Safeya Alblooshi is an Emirati Russian practicing sound artist based in the Emirates. She holds a BA in Music and a Minor in Interactive Media from the New York University Abu Dhabi. Her work includes sound for interactive performance, live scoring, soundwalks, and audio-visual installation pieces, through which she engages with topics of conceptual narrative, environmental listening, and interactivity in performance.
In her three-year appointment, Safeya will work at different levels in the group as web developer, music annotator and data manager, maintain and update the Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) website, develop specialized websites to conduct experiments and to host specialized content (e.g. demos of MaSC software and musical applications that run on web browsers). She will also do annotations of features of the music in specialized software (like Sonic Visualizer) and create specialized metadata tags specifying musical features to assist on the computational analysis, work on digitization and digital transfer of music from the region according to the NYUAD Library standards for digital preservation.
Safeya earned this position through a competitive search via the Kawader program.
