The Music and Sound Cultures Research group welcomes Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli, a professional vocalist, an engineer, and a budding musicologist trained in Hindustani music tradition. Kaustuv was selected from the search conducted during the summer, and joined the group right after finishing his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.

MaSC is seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Associate. The purpose of this position is to continue working on data-driven approaches for Carnatic rhythm generation applications using machine learning, pattern recognition and visualization techniques. The successful candidate will also be involved in the computational analysis and retrieval of large-scale non-western music corpus mainly from the Arab Mashriq and East Africa region and will work on the investigation of rhythm complexity and similarity in non-western music traditions using both symbolic/acoustic representations, statistical modeling and perceptual responses. Click here for more information about this position and to apply.

The Music and Sound Cultures group were recently awarded a grant for the planning of a research center at NYUAD. This grant ($28,600) will support exploratory activities towards the creation of a center dedicated to the preservation and computational understanding of music and sound cultures from a region constituted by what is often called the Arab mashriq (comprising the present-day countries Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan and western Iraq), the countries of the Arabian Gulf and Peninsula (including eastern Iraq), South India, and the western Indian Ocean (including port cities and regions of eastern Africa).