Sibusiso NcanywaDeep learning
meets
Indigenous knowledge.
Hi, I'm Sibusiso Ncanywa, a PhD candidate in the department of Music & Musicology at Rhodes University. My research explores the possibility of leveraging artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning, to determine whether or not a sound is produced by uhadi, a musical bow of amaXhosa.
Research Themes
Music/Sound Technology
The intersection of music and technology.
Digitisation of Indigenous Music Technologies
Exploring ways to digitise analogue traditional music technologies.
Uhadi
Exploring forms of knowledge that emerge with and from uhadi musical bow.
Music Information Retrieval
Algorithms for extracting useful information from music.
Metamodeling
Felix Guattari's approach to metamodeling as a critical and creative process that challenges standard models and explores new paths.
Decolonial thought
Challenging dominant narratives and seeking alternative perspectives.
Indigenous knowledge systems
Exploring indigenous knowledge systems for a more holistic understanding of uhadi and its music.
Encoding/Decoding Models
Stuart Hall's model of communication, highlighting how meaning is constructed and interpreted through encoding by producers and decoding by audiences.
Conference Papers
Encoding and Decoding Indigenous Knowledge: Developing an Intuitive Digital Representation through Machine Learning
In this paper, I consider the application of Stuart Hall’s model of encoding and decoding media as a conceptual framework for realising an intuitive and equitable digital representat...
Machine learning meets Indigenous knowledge: codification of uhadi, a South African Xhosa bow instrument
With the rise in the publicity of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the digital world provides vast options for digital representation of analogue inst...
Society Memberships
International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Advancing music information research.
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