Subject: Ircam/ Job Offers/ Quaero project/ Annotation From: Geoffroy Peeters <Geoffroy.Peeters@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:11:25 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060705020706080701020704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit /apologize for cross-posting .../ *Position title* : Musicians-annotators for the Quaero project *Introduction to IRCAM* IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization associated to Centre Pompidou, dedicated to music production, R&D and education in acoustics and music. It hosts composers, researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production, scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D department include acoustics, audio signal processing, computer music, interaction technologies, musicology. Ircam is located in the center of Paris near the Centre Pompidou, at 1, Place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris. *Position description* Two jobs are available from February 1st, 2008 within the "Sound Analysis/Synthesis Team" of Ircam, each for a duration of 5 months (with possible extensions). _Context_: The work is to be done is part of the Quaero project. The Quaero project aims at the development of a multimedia search engine. In this framework, music content extraction algorithms are developed. For the validation of those, a large musical corpus is developed. _Tasks description_: The jobs concerns * the manual annotation of the music tracks of this corpus. Using an annotation software, the music tracks must be annotated into various musical information: beat positions, measure positions, chords succession over time, notes succession, musical structure. * providing user-feedbacks to the developer of the annotation software. * participating to the improvement of the specification of the distribution of the musical corpus. *Required profile* The candidates should have * a good listening/ earing (absolute pitch if possible), a good sense of rhythm/tempo ; musical education is of course an added value (knowledge of the various meter, various chord types, ...) * a good knowledge of the specificity's of the various music genre specificity's (classical, jazz, pop, international, ...) * practice of computer software and tools *Salary* According to background and experience *EEC WORKING PAPERS:* In order to start immediately, the candidate should preferably have EEC citizenship or already own valid EEC working papers. *Applications* Please send an application letter together with your resume, a photo and any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email to geoffroy.peeters@xxxxxxxx with cc. to Hugues.Vinet@xxxxxxxx Geoffroy Peeters Ircam - R&D tel: +33/1/44.78.14.22 email: peeters@xxxxxxxx <http://www.ircam.fr> --------------060705020706080701020704 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------040109030808010502060708" --------------040109030808010502060708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small><i>apologize for cross-posting ...</i></small><br> <br> <b>Position title</b> : Musicians-annotators for the Quaero project<br> <br> <b>Introduction to IRCAM</b><br> IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization associated to Centre Pompidou, dedicated to music production, R&D and education in acoustics and music. It hosts composers, researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production, scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D department include acoustics, audio signal processing, computer music, interaction technologies, musicology. Ircam is located in the center of Paris near the Centre Pompidou, at 1, Place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris. <br> <br> <b>Position description</b><br> Two jobs are available from February 1st, 2008 within the "Sound Analysis/Synthesis Team” of Ircam, each for a duration of 5 months (with possible extensions).<br> <br> <u>Context</u>: The work is to be done is part of the Quaero project. The Quaero project aims at the development of a multimedia search engine. In this framework, music content extraction algorithms are developed. For the validation of those, a large musical corpus is developed.<br> <br> <u>Tasks description</u>: The jobs concerns <br> </font> <ul> <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">the manual annotation of the music tracks of this corpus. Using an annotation software, the music tracks must be annotated into various musical information: beat positions, measure positions, chords succession over time, notes succession, musical structure. </font></li> <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">providing user-feedbacks to the developer of the annotation software.</font></li> <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">participating to the improvement of the specification of the distribution of the musical corpus.</font></li> </ul> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> <br> <b>Required profile</b><br> The candidates should have <br> </font> <ul> <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">a good listening/ earing (absolute pitch if possible), a good sense of rhythm/tempo ; musical education is of course an added value (knowledge of the various meter, various chord types, …) </font></li> <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">a good knowledge of the specificity’s of the various music genre specificity’s (classical, jazz, pop, international, …)</font></li> <li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">practice of computer software and tools </font></li> </ul> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> <b>Salary</b><br> According to background and experience<br> <br> <b>EEC WORKING PAPERS:</b><br> In order to start immediately, the candidate should preferably have EEC citizenship <br> or already own valid EEC working papers.<br> <br> <b>Applications</b><br> Please send an application letter together with your resume, a photo and any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:geoffroy.peeters@xxxxxxxx">geoffroy.peeters@xxxxxxxx</a> with cc. to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Hugues.Vinet@xxxxxxxx">Hugues.Vinet@xxxxxxxx</a>.</font><br> <br> <div class="moz-signature"><br> <font face="Verdana">Geoffroy Peeters<br> <font color="#555555" size="-1"> Ircam - R&D<br> tel: +33/1/44.78.14.22<br> 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