[AUDITORY] Pre-/Postdoctoral position in applied digital musicology (H2020 TROMPA)

[Werner Goebl <goebl@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil (IWK) of the 
University of Music and Per-forming Arts Vienna (mdw) is starting a new 
*H2020 European Project TROMPA* (Towards Richer Online Music 
Public-domain Archives), coordinated by Prof. Emilia Gómez (MIRlab, 
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) which will be carried out under the 
topic CULT-COOP-09-2017. This is a 3-year project that will start in May 
2018.

The mdw is looking to hire an *experienced researcher at an advanced 
pre- or post-doctoral level*. You will be working on the multimodal 
integration of music data including linking scores with performances, 
ways to assess performance quality, and will be developing pilot 
use-cases for instrument players and music scholars.

TROMPA description

Classical music is one of the greatest treasures of Europe’s cultural 
heritage. Although it is a historical genre, it is continually 
(re)interpreted and revitalised through musical performance. Today, most 
of the classical repertoire is in the public domain; massive numbers of 
scores and recordings are now available in online community-contributed 
repositories actively used by scholars and musicians. Technology offers 
ways to enrich and contextualise this repertoire, so that users might 
better understand and appreciate it.

However, because of variations in their quality and scale, this does not 
happen automatically for public-domain resources. Amidst today’s deluge 
of data, relevant associations across repositories and between 
modalities (e.g. from scores to recordings) still need to be made 
manually, while the insights of previous users are not explicitly stored 
for future users to learn from. It is thus impossible to get a 
comprehensive insight into the full wealth of our musical cultural 
her-itage.

TROMPA will change this by massively enriching and democratising our 
publicly available musical heritage through a user-centred co-creation 
setup. For analysing and linking music data at scale, the project will 
employ and improve state-of-the-art technology. Music-loving citizens 
(including the large scene of amateur performers) will cooperate with 
the technology, giving feedback on algorithmic results, and annotating 
the data according to their personal expertise.

Following an open innovation philosophy, all derived knowledge will be 
released back to the community in reusable ways. This enables many uses 
in applications which directly benefit crowd contributors and wider 
audiences. TROMPA will demonstrate this for music scholars, con-tent 
owners, instrumentalists, choir singers, and music enthusiasts. Via the 
consortium and as-sociated partners, global audiences can be reached at 
an unprecedented scale, with potential outreach to millions of users.
The consortium consists of nine partners: Universitat Pompeu Fabra UPF), 
Barcelona, coordina-tor; Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD), Delft; 
Goldsmiths’ College (GOLD), London; Universität für Musik und 
darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW), Vienna; Video Dock BV (VD), Amsterdam; 
Peachnote GmbH (PN), Munich; Voctro Labs SL (VL), Barcelona; Stichting 
Koninklijk Concertge-bouworkest (RCO), Amsterdam; Stichting Centrale 
Discotheek (CDR), Amsterdam.

Planned starting date: between 1st May 2018 (preferred) and 1st 
September 2018
Extent of employment: 40 hours per week
Duration: 2 years with the option of extension
Salary: According to the Austrian collective labour agreement, the 
monthly gross pay for a pre-doctoral position is at a minimum € 2.794,60 
(14 times), in case of job-related former experience a gross pay of € 
3.313,20 (at a maximum) is possible. The monthly gross pay for a 
post-doctoral position is € 3.711,10 (14 times).

Required skills and qualifications:
•    A Masters degree or a PhD in (systematic) musicology, computer 
science, psychology or a related field.
•    Documented strong (practical or theoretical) experience with 
Classical music, preferably at a recognized post-secondary institution.
•    Programming skills and affinity to visualisation interfaces 
(preferable in Python, C++, or similar)
•    You are a creative person and have good aesthetic judgement in 
designing use-case scenarios.
•    Excellent written and spoken English language skills.

Application deadline: 25. April 2018
Applications should include a letter of motivation and a CV and should 
be sent as a single PDF (related to GZ 1136/18) directly to Prof. Dr. 
Werner Goebl, goebl@xxxxxxxxx.

The university of music and performing arts Vienna is committed to the 
equal treatment of all qualified applicants regardless of sex, gender, 
sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, world-view, age, or disability.
The University is particularly interested in increasing the percentage 
of women working in the artistic, scientific and general university 
personnel ranks. It therefore expressly encourages qualified women to apply.
It should be specifically mentioned, however, that applicants who are 
invited to the audition will not receive remuneration from the 
university for incurred travel and hotel expenses.

--
Dr. Werner Goebl
Associate Professor
Department of Music Acoustics (Wiener Klangstil)
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 1 71155 4311
Fax. +43 1 71155 4399
http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/goebl