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Another two-year position as a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) is now available at the Schulich School of Music (www.mcgill.ca/music) of McGill University: the position
announced here is in the ACTOR Project’s Analysis Axis, in contrast to the recently posted position with the same application deadline (April 15) for a PDF working in the Output Innovation Axis (www.actorproject.org/calls/postdoc/output-innovation-axis-2020).
Applicants can request to be considered for either or both PDF positions, depending on their research expertise and qualifications. The PDFs will work within an international, interdisciplinary partnership directed by Stephen McAdams, and including McGill faculty members in composition (Denys Bouliane, John Rea, Philippe Leroux), music theory (Robert Hasegawa), sound recording (Martha de Francisco), music technology (Philippe Depalle, Ichiro Fujinaga), conducting (Guillaume Bourgogne), and music psychology (Stephen McAdams). The ACTOR Partnership (see www.actor-project.org) proposes to bring the often-neglected topics of timbre and orchestration to the forefront of musical scholarship and practice, through a collaboration including world-class artists, scholars, and scientists. This Partnership links major North American and European universities, conservatories, research centres, orchestras, and companies to develop a solid theoretical basis for orchestration practice and pedagogy, to stimulate the development of new creativity-enhancing digital tools for teaching and learning orchestration, and to apply tools of corpus analysis and machine learning to better understand orchestration practice in over four centuries of music. The partnership is organized into three primary research axes: 1) Analysis Axis – score, text, audio, perception and performance analysis of orchestration practice and interpretation, 2) Tool Development Axis – development of computer-aided orchestration and orchestral simulation environments, an orchestration research database, and an online interactive orchestration resource, 3) Output Innovation Axis – applying the analysis-based research and tools to innovation in orchestration pedagogy, music scholarship and composition. The post-doctoral researcher will work primarily on the Analysis Axis and will be involved in project coordination and research on orchestration in the fields of music theory and musicology, audio analysis, performance analysis, perceptual analysis and text analysis. They will participate in the development of methods for evaluating the impact of this research in those domains and will co-supervise graduate and undergraduate students. The ideal candidate will have a doctoral degree in music theory, music psychology, or music-related computer science, with a strong background in orchestration and an interest in interdisciplinary innovation. A deep knowledge of common-practice and contemporary orchestral repertoire is a significant plus. Additional tasks include being a member of the ACTOR Executive Committee, coordinating development of the Online Orchestration Resource, organizing the ACTOR Symposium semi-annually at McGill University, contributing to the annual ACTOR Workshops, and communicating with specialist and general audiences (including dissemination through social media and blog posts). Ability to communicate fluently in French is an asset. There will be ample opportunity for collaboration with team members at McGill and with the other institutional partners. The PDF will be co-supervised by Stephen McAdams, ACTOR Director, and Robert Hasegawa, ACTOR Associate Director. The Schulich School of Music is an internationally recognized university-based music faculty with humanistic, scientific and engineering research, composition and music performance. It houses the multi-university Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT). McGill University is a world-class institution in the culturally and scientifically vibrant city of Montreal. --Open-access journal Transactions of ISMIR, open for submissions: https://tismir.ismir.net --- ISMIR 2020 will take place in Montréal, Canada, October 12-16 2020 -- http://ismir2020.ismir.net/ ISMIR 2021 will take place in Bangalore, India, November 8-12, 2021 ISMIR Home -- http://www.ismir.net/ --- Please note! This list is lightly moderated, any email sent from a non-member address will be queued until it can be reviewed by a human. Be sure to join before posting! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Community Announcements" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to community+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxx. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ismir.net/d/msgid/community/A71484C2-E7A0-4B64-9583-3A1CCB8EF7F4%40mcgill.ca. |