The Formation of Soof installation, as part of the Abu Dhabi Pavilion at the London Design Biennale, is the winner of this year’s London Design Biennale Theme Medal!

The London Design Biennale jury chose three pavilions which demonstrated creativity and innovation in response to this year’s theme of ‘The Global Game — Remapping Collaborations’, and the Abu Dhabi pavilion was awarded for the most “inspiring interpretation of the theme.”

MaSC has received two grants for research projects from NYUAD’s research enhancement fund (REF).
Project “Computationally-engaged approaches to rhythm and musical heritage: Establishing cross-cultural relationships using data-driven approaches.” (PI: Carlos Guedes. Co-Investigators: Andrew Eisenberg, Beth Russell, Yi Fang, Brian McFee, Robert Rowe) has obtained $249,634.00. Pathway project “The Swahili Musical Imagination: Intercultural Style and Aesthetics in the Compositions of Ally Salim Basalama.” (PI: Andrew Eisenberg. Co-Investigators: Clarissa Viercke (U of Bayreuth), Carlos Guedes, Robe Rowe) has obtained $21,883.60.
Both projects will be running until August 31, 2021.

Carlos Guedes, Konstantinos Trochidis, and Akshay Anantapadmanabhan were awarded the “Best Paper Award” at the 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference (4-7 July, Limassol, Cyprus) with their paper “Modeling Carnatic rhythm generation: A data-driven approach based on rhythmic analysis” (Guedes, Trochidis & Anantapadmanabhan, 2018 ). This paper was presented in the context of the work developed in the project, “Computationally-engaged approaches to rhythm and musical heritage: Generation, analysis, and performance practice.”