International Affiliations
Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres
AAPPAC is an association of over 64 arts centres and arts organizations from over 18 countries involved in the management of arts facilities and arts related businesses. Established in 1996, AAPPAC's mission is to establish the Asia-Pacific Region as a leading force in the performing arts. AAPPAC hopes to achieve this through the ease of exchange of information on programmes, training opportunities, marketing and management initiatives and the development of relationships within a non-political environment. The NCPA has been a member of AAPPAC since 2007, and was the first organisation from India to join the association.
www.aappac.net
Department of Musicology, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
The University of Amsterdam is one of Europe’s largest comprehensive universities. Since 2003, the University has worked closely with the NCPA to develop the ground-breaking Automated Transcription of Indian Music (AUTRIM) research project. The visual graphics for this project are principally generated using PRAAT software, developed by the University’s Institute of Phonetic Science. In addition, Dr Wim van der Meer (Associate Professor, Department of Musicology) is the chief advisor for this project.
www.english.uva.nl
Sonic Arts Research Network, University of Wollongong (Australia)
The Sonic Arts Research Network (SARN) is a creative research project based at the University of Wollongong, Australia. SARN seeks to identify new reciprocal relationships between music and the technologies used to create it. The NCPA is involved in an ongoing collaboration with SARN to develop an intelligent process control technique for constructing traditional handcrafted musical instruments with robots, thereby preserving the techniques of this disappearing craft. The other collaborator in this project is the Interactive Digital Media Institute (IDMI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
www.uow.edu.au/crearts/
Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (The Netherlands)
Codarts, University for the Arts is a small-scale professional university based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The education at Codarts is provided by the Rotterdam Conservatoire (music), the Rotterdam Dance Academy (music) and Rotterdam Circus Arts (circus). Between 1995 and 1999, the NCPA collaborated with Codarts in the publication of The Raga Guide, an audio-literary resource that was jointly produced by Nimbus Records (UK) and Rotterdam Conservatory. During 2002-2005, the NCPA again collaborated with Codarts in a performance-based research project, One World, Many Musics. This project awaits publication in the form of a DVD-ROM, a DVD and a booklet.
www.codarts.nl
