Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation
The Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation is an independent and autonomous interdisciplinary institute in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University. The institute has been home to pioneering graduate research and has been instrumental in the publication of important South African research in the form of monographs, critical editions, accredited articles, popular articles, films, recordings, performances and online digitally curated scholarship and publication. Work done in the institute has received several awards from the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, among others, and the institute maintains a strong record of publication and innovative creative work, exemplified by its improvisation ensemble, AOImprovising.