New students join MaSC for the summer in the Post-Graduation Practical Training (PPTP) Program.

A few students from the class of 2022 recently joined MaSC to conduct research over the summer. Aaron Marcus-Willers (Music) , Enid Mollel (Music) , Gauri Kedia (Interactive Media and Visual Arts), and Prajjwal Bhattarai (Computer Science and Mathematics) will be workin on different projects as part of MaSC’s research agenda. 

Aaron Marcus-Willers is mixing, improving,  and decoding ambisonic recordings for MaSC’s ever-growing archive of taarab from Zanzibar and pearl diving music from Kuwait

Enid Mollel is working on the Volume III of the Eisenberg collection and in generating metadata for the Basalama collection of recordings of compositions by Zanzibari composer  Ally Salim Basalama. 

Gauri Kedia is designing the interface for the Virtual-Reality browser of MaSC’s digital compendium of music from the Western Indian Ocean

Prajjwal Bhattarai is working on the use of Transformers and deep learning in the generation of Carnatic-style rhythmic sequences. 

You can check more about their profiles on the website’s people page!