The Laboratory of System Investigations of Ethnomusical Cultures is a scientific subdivision attached to the chair of ethnomusicology. Research assistants, students and post-graduate students take part at the activity of the Laboratory.

The Laboratory carries out the research based on structural and analytical methods such as the universal grammars, mathematic statistics, comparativistics and also the articulation analysis of timbre. The purpose of Laboratory is the system description of separate genre traditions in cultures of Siberia and Far East and ethnic intonational cultures as a whole.

The Laboratory regularly organizes musical ethnographic expeditions. The folklore materials and the results of scientific research are published in the editions of the Novosibirsk State Conservatoire, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences etc. They become an integral part of new educational courses in the framework of the pedagogical activity of the ethnomusicology chair.

Two scientific seminars for musical semiotics and the theory of intonational cultures and for musical ethnography are working at the Laboratory.