PhD position in Music Information Retrieval at Utrecht University

[Anja Volk <volk@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested.

I am pleased to announce the opening of a PhD position in Music  
Information Retrieval at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The PhD  
student will be a team member of the NWO-VIDI project “Modelling  
musical similarity over time through the variation priniciple”,  
funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.  The  
project will last for 5 years, principal investigator is Anja Volk.

The aim of the project is to develop a cognition-based computational  
model of music similarity in the symbolic domain that grounds in the  
variation principle. The project will investigate the fundamental  
principle of variation in music studied in Musicology and Cognitive  
Science as a means to establish similarity. Specifically, it will  
develop computational approaches to music similarity by modeling the  
interaction between global and local features of the music. The  
project will deliver both a theoretic framework and a computational  
model of music similarity that covers three major styles, namely  
classical, folk and popular music. The project team will include the  
principal investigator, a postdoc, a PhD student and a scientific  
programmer.

Detailed information: http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/projects/vidi-volk/

The PhD student will concentrate on methods of Music Retrieval.  
Specific tasks include:
*developing segmentation methods
*extracting relevant musical features
*designing similarity measures and algorithms
*performing system evaluation

Requirements

* Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Science,  
Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Humanities Computing, or any  
other relevant discipline
*proven affection with and knowledge of music (notation, basic  
theory) and programming.

For more information on the project you can contact Dr. Anja Volk,  
tel: +31 (0)30 253 5965, email: volk@xxxxxxxx,  http:// 
people.cs.uu.nl/volk

For information on the application procedure (please apply before 8  
april 2011) see
http://www.cs.uu.nl/vacatures/en/64101.html

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Anja Volk
Assistant Professor
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
http://people.cs.uu.nl/volk/