Sonic communications--Postdoc/postgrad opportunities (Freya Bailes )


Subject: Sonic communications--Postdoc/postgrad opportunities
From:    Freya Bailes  <Freya.Bailes(at)CANBERRA.EDU.AU>
Date:    Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:08:54 +1000

SONIC COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH GROUP (SCRG) - Opportunities The Sonic Communications Research Group (SCRG) within the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra offers a unique environment for postgraduate and post-doctoral research, and welcomes visiting overseas students. SCRG members are interested in questions such as the following: - How do we communicate with sound? - How does sound represent information, and help us perceive and interpret complex data? - How does sound induce affect? - How do creative sound practices operate in contemporary culture? - How can computers assist sound in media generation for creative and commercial purposes? - How do sound, text and image inter-relate in new media? - How does text communicate when sounded, versus in other contexts? - How is sound represented? SCRG has an unusual range of expertise, representing cultural theory, musicology, empirical cognitive studies, and creative practice in sound and new media, particularly using computer mediation in real-time performance. SCRG therefore fosters the application of multidisciplinary approaches to its research, aware that there can be a productive interplay between approaches and methodologies that are seemingly in conflict. SCRG publications reflect this variety but share an interest in understanding and creatively enhancing sonic communication. The group is outward looking, with collaborations (MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney), external partnerships (austraLYSIS, creative ensemble, and Great White Noise Pty Ltd., a commercial sound production and project management concern), and involvement in research networks such as the Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded Human Communication Sciences network (HCSNet). SCRG is funded by an ARC Discovery grant (CI Roger Dean), and is developing ARC linkage and other forms of funding. The following SCRG members are happy to supervise research: Professor Roger Dean - cognition of segmentation and rhythm and segmentation in music, including that in computer music, groove musics, jazz, improvised music, and new music composition, Australian contemporary jazz; comprovisation; computational generation of sound; algorithmic synaesthesia between sound, text and image; sound file recognition by computational approaches. Dr. Stephen Barrass - sonification, auditory perception, audio interfaces, audio augmented reality, public sound installations, aesthetics of auditory displays, data driven music, new interfaces for algorithmic music, and music visualisation Dr. Freya Bailes ­ musical imagery (i.e. Œauralisationı or imagining sound in the Œmindıs earı), music perception and cognition, mental representation of musical structure Dr. Hazel Smith - new media writing; sonic writing; relationships between text, sound and image; literary representations of music; literary and cultural theory Dr. Mitchell Whitelaw ­ sound practice, culture and criticism; experimental electronic sound and music; improvisation with real-time inputs and processing; data sonification and aesthetics For more on SCRG, visit http://www.canberra.edu.au/vc-forum/scrg/. Contact the co-leaders Roger Dean (roger.dean(at)canberra.edu.au) or Stephen Barrass (stephen.barrass(at)canberra.edu.au). SCRG expects all participants to co-publish, and while PhD students and post-doctoral researchers have considerable flexibility in their choice of research topics, and their development, these must cohere with core themes of the group, and attract the support of a member. Applications for Higher degree places close on 31 October for enrolment in semester 1 in 2006, but international students must apply for study by the end of September. Highly qualified applicants who would like to conduct research within SCRG should note that the University of Canberra has a number of places available for doctoral students on a competitive basis under the Research Training Scheme. Information on RTS, and also on full fee-paying places and fee-waiver scholarships can be found at: http://www.canberra.edu.au/corporate/research/students/scholarships.html. There are in addition a number of postgraduate scholarships available (http://www.canberra.edu.au/student-services/scholarships). Outstanding candidates should be able to attract an APA scholarship, or a similar stipend from other sources, and SCRG will assist with such applications for well-focused candidates. SCRG also hopes to have its own funds to provide 'top-up' bursaries in support of outstanding candidates for PhD or post-doctoral research. Australian Government Higher Education (CRICOS) Registered Provider number: #00212K


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