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Postdoctoral Fellow positions: Analysis, creation and teaching of orchestration (ACTOR) Two 2-year postdoctoral positions are available at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. The postdoctoral fellows (PDFs) will work within an international, interdisciplinary partnership directed by Prof. Stephen McAdams, and including McGill faculty members in composition (Denys Bouliane, Philippe Leroux), music theory (Robert Hasegawa, Nicole Biamonte), sound recording (Martha de Francisco), music technology (Philippe Depalle, Ichiro Fujinaga, Stephen McAdams), and conducting (Guillaume Bourgogne). The ACTOR Partnership 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
researchers will work primarily on either the Analysis Axis or the Output
Innovation Axis. They will be involved in project coordination and research on
orchestration in the fields of music theory, musicology, orchestration
pedagogy, and compositional practice. 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. ·
Output Innovation Axis PDF: The
ideal candidate will have a doctoral degree in music theory, musicology, or
composition, with a strong background in orchestration and an interest in
pedagogical innovation. A deep knowledge of common-practice and contemporary
orchestral repertoire is a significant plus. Additional tasks include being
co-chair of the ACTOR Training and Mentoring Committee, coordinating
development of the Timbre and
Orchestration Resource, co-organizing the hybrid (virtual/in-person)
ACTOR Symposium semi-annually, 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. · Analysis Axis PDF: 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, sitting in the Knowledge and Mobilization Committee as the ACTOR Newsletter Editor (ex-officio), coordinating development of the Timbre and Orchestration Resource, co-organizing the hybrid (virtual/in-person) ACTOR Symposium semi-annually, 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 Robert Hasegawa, ACTOR Associate Director, and Stephen McAdams, ACTOR Director. Applicants must have received their doctorate (PhD, DMA, DMus) within 3 years of the starting date of the fellowship. They should submit a cover letter, CV, and 3 representative papers (or 2 papers and a composition for the Output Innovation Axis PDF), and arrange for 3 letters of reference to be sent to actor-project.music@xxxxxxxxx. Applications will be reviewed as of April 15, 2022 until the position is filled. The ideal start date is August 1, 2022 to provide overlap with the incumbent PDFs, but September 1, 2022 is the latest start date. The successful candidates will receive a stipend of $46,360/year for two years (non-renewable) and may attend the Year 4 ACTOR Workshop in Calgary, Alberta 9-11 July 2022. For further details on the ACTOR Partnership to decide if this PDF is a good fit for you, please contact Stephen McAdams (stephen.mcadams@xxxxxxxxx) and Robert Hasegawa (robert.hasegawa@xxxxxxxxx). 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 2021 will take place online, November 8-12, 2021 ISMIR 2022 will take place in Bangalore, India 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/D8E667C6-479A-4753-A8E7-0AABD6EE41B3%40mcgill.ca. |
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