Music and Sound Cultures’ main goals is to deepen the knowledge about the music from the Western Indian Ocean region. We are developing a multidisciplinary methodology that combines computational approaches incorporating recent developments in artificial intelligence with ethnomusicological and music-theoretical approaches involving intensive collaboration with cultural practitioners. This unique methodology is intended to contribute scholarship and creative work in a range of formats (including scholarly papers, audiovisual documents, artistic endeavors, and computer applications) that reveal the relationships between musics of non-Eurogenetic tradition, and what these relationships can teach us about how musical practices and ideas flow from one culture to another.
Research in MaSC is organized around four clusters:
You can check our ongoing and past funded projects here