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Note that this document is slightly edited from that on the
UC
recruitment website, to provide more extensive information
for those
considering application; for any matters of legal interpretation,
the
UC website document is to be used. Some web links are available
directly from the UC website documents; but the Sonic Communications
Research Group page can be accessed via
www.canberra.edu.au/vc-forum/SCRG.htm, and is not listed there.
Further information about the research and creative work of
the Chief
Investigator, Roger Dean, is available at
POST DOCTORAL RESEARCHER - Sonic Communications/Music
Reference No. 03/2145
$54784 - $64887 pa
ACADEMIC LEVEL B
The University of Canberra currently has new funding available
for two
Post Doctoral Researchers.
The second position ¡V Ref. No. 03/2145 - is a three
year Post Doctoral
opportunity funded by a new Australian Research Council grant
to Prof.
Roger Dean (Team Co-leader), in the newly formed Sonic Communications
Research Team, within the "CMCS" area
of research strength listed
below. Collaborators are Dr Hazel Smith (UC), and Dr Kate Stevens
(UWS). The project concerns the use of computer generation
and
manipulation of sound to permit assessment of the cognitive
accessibility of the resultant musical structures. Details
are
available from roger.dean@canberra.edu.au, and from the UC
website.
Post-graduate applicants at the Research Officer level will
also be
considered for this project.
Areas of Research Strength at the University of Canberra
¡± Communication, Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS)
¡± Tourism ¡± Education and Innovation
¡± Built and Cultural Environments
¡± Ecology, Environmental and Earth Sciences
¡± Medical and Health Sciences
¡± Governance
¡± Socio-Economic Policy and Research
¡± Information Sciences and Engineering
Closing Date: 23 January 2004
Applications for this position close 23 January, 2004.
(Information available from the UC recruitment website:
Please refer to the Information for Applicants and the Position
Documentation before applying for this position. Note that
applications from non-Australians are extremely welcome, but
additional formalities apply. When applying, you must print,
fill out
and attach this cover sheet to your application. Note that
the cover
sheet is in Adobe PDF format. If you do not already have one,
a
program to read PDF files is available free from Adobe. Applicants
should address the Selection Criteria, and include the names,
addresses and fax numbers of at least 3 referees.)
Applications should be addressed to:
Recruitment Officer 1C18
University of Canberra ACT 2601
The University is AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, in Sonic Communications
Division: Communication and Education
Research Group: Sonic Communications Research Group
(www.canberra.edu.au/vc-forum/SCRG.htm)
Appointment Level: Academic Level B
Reporting to: Prof Roger Dean
Vacancy Ref No: 03/2145
Position Purpose:
The appointee will carry out independent and team research
in the
recently formed Sonic Communications Research Group, within
the
Communication, Media and Cultural Studies area of research
strength.
This research group is lead by Prof Roger Dean (Vice-Chancellor),
and
Dr Hazel Smith (Senior Research Fellow). The project is funded
by a
new 3 year ARC Discovery grant to Roger Dean, in which the
key
collaborators are Dr Hazel Smith, and Dr Kate Stevens (UWS).
The
project concerns the use of computer generation and manipulation
of
sound to generate large scale musical structure. It investigates
the
psychological reality and recognisability of complex musical
segments
and structures. Affective responses elicited by the
computer-generated and mainuplated sounds will also be examined.
Further details, including details of selected relevant publications
from previous work of group members, are available from
roger.dean@canberra.edu.au, and from the UC website, at the
Sonic
Communications Research Group home page
(www.canberra.edu.au/vc-forum/SCRG.htm). Applicants at UC"s
Research
Officer level will also be considered for this position. The
successful applicant will also carry out activities to develop
his/her
research expertise relevant to the particular field of research,
and
the University of Canberra is developing several means to support
the
development of researchers" careers, such as
contingency funding when
a researcher gains their own research fellowship.
Duties:
Specific duties required of this Post-Doctoral position may
include:
* The conduct of research either as a member of a team
or
independently, and the production of conference and seminar
papers and
publications from that research.
* Supervision of research-support staff involved in
the staff
member"s research.
* Guidance in the research effort of junior members
of
research-only academic staff in his/her research area.
* Contribution to the preparation, or where appropriate
individual preparation, of research proposal submissions to
external
funding bodies.
* Involvement in professional activities including,
subject to
availability of funds, attendance at conferences and seminars
in the
field of expertise.
* Administrative functions primarily connected with
his/her
area of research.
* Co-supervision, or where appropriate supervision,
of major
honours or postgraduate research projects within the field
of the
staff member"s area of research.
* Attendance at meetings associated with research or
the work
of the centre to which the research is connected and /or school
and/or
division meetings and/or membership of a limited number of
committees.
* Development of grant applications to develop the applicant"s
own research opportunities, and assistance with other applications
supporting the Sonic Communications Research Group.
Required Expertise
One or more of the following are required:
1. In depth experience and creative outputs in algorithmic
generation of music, using MAX/MSP, or comparable software
technologies.
2. Research experience and publications in cognition of sound
or
music.
Essential Criteria
1. Relevant doctoral qualification or equivalent qualifications
or research experience
2. Post-doctoral research experience which has resulted in
creative work, publications, conference papers, reports or
professional or technical contributions which give evidence
of
research and creative ability
3. Established links with outside organisations that are of
benefit to the University.
4. Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills.
5. Demonstrated understanding of, and commitment to
implementation of equity principles.
Desirable Criteria
1. Evidence of exceptional innovative capacity, coupled with
critical and evaluative ability.
Before submitting your application
You may contact Professor Roger Dean, on (02) 6201 5000 or
roger.dean@canberra.edu.au for academic/research information,
further
information about the position, or to discuss the program of
research
to be undertaken.
The University"s cover sheet must accompany applications.
Please
submit your full application (as detailed in Information for
Applicants on the UC website) via email to
recruit@adminserver.canberra.edu.au, as well as hard copy (including
the completed and signed Cover Sheet) to:
Recruitment Officer
Room 1C18
University of Canberra ACT 2601
Some further information about the funded ARC project is here:
A4 Project Title:
Towards efficient real-time generation of detectable musical
macrostructure
A5 100 word lay summary
Efficient generation of detectable large scale musical structure
is
needed for commercial audiovisual applications, and for creative
music
making. But computer mediation of music has focused elsewhere:
on
sound synthesis and sequencing, editing, mixing and notation.
I will
apply computational processes, like the handling of chunks
of genetic
information in evolution, to generate large scale musical structure.
I
will control segmentation; framing of internal segments;
spatialisation; and the overlaying of separable musical streams.
Expert cognitive assessment of the resultant structures will
be
investigated, and theories of segmentation, streaming and their
relationships with expression and affect developed and tested.
E1. Towards efficient real-time generation of detectable musical
macrostructure.
E2 Description. The project will develop techniques to generate
large-scale musical structure in real-time, and to assess the
degree
to which the resultant structures are cognitively accessible
to
experienced musicians. ("Real-time" means
within the time frame in
which a piece is performed.) The project will further develop
theories
of segmentation and framing in music, by musicological and
scientific
analysis. The theoretical development will be followed by cognitive
assessment, taking advantage of the real-time generative mechanisms
to
produce systematic defined variations of musical structures,
allowing
comparative cognitive assessment by the expert listeners. Efficient
generative techniques are required not only for preparation
of
experimental examples, but also for the audiovisual industries,
which
require economically-generated music whose relationship to
the
verbal/visual stream needs to be well controlled, since the
affect of
music influences the impact of film segments (e.g. ). Real-time
generative techniques are also important for creative music
per se; I
have theorized and analysed the importance of real-time music
creation
(e.g. improvisation) in a series of substantial publications
. It is
important that the music in this project will not necessarily
be
note-oriented, in the sense of classical instrumental music.
Rather,
much will be comprised of sonic structures which will be digitally
synthesized or transformed in performance. The note-oriented
music
will initially be atonal. The project is complementary to others
focused on the computer synthesis of music performance (as
opposed to
creation) .
The specific aims of the project can be summarised as follows:
1.To develop new algorithmic methods for the real-time generation
("digistructuralisation") of large
scale musical structure
("macrostructure"), in a style-independent
manner, using surface
"cues" for segmentation.
2.To investigate the detectability by expert musicians (composers
and
improvisers) and musicologists of the structural features so
developed, notably segmentation.
3.To develop a theoretical framework for the detection, generation
and
utilisation of a range of musical segmentation devices (structural
"cues"); this framework will be informed
initially by scientific and
musicological considerations, and later also by postmodern
cultural
theory.
4.To iteratively test the relationship between defined algorithmic
structural modifications of an otherwise unchanged piece, cognitive
recognition of these changes and the newly established structures,
and
their affective content.
Roger Dean, Artistic Director, austraLYSIS, Creating real-time
interactive sound and Intermedia work. PO Box 2039, Woolooware,
NSW
2230, Australia; dr.metagroove@mindless.com; www.australysis.com.
Roger Dean, Co-Leader, Sonic Communications Research Group,
University
of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Phone: + 61 2 6201 5000
(Jan
Mattiazzi); roger.dean@canberra.edu.au. Sonic Communications
Web page :
www.canberra.edu.au/vc-forum/SCRG.htm
Professor Roger Dean,
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra,
ACT 2601, Australia; roger.dean@canberra.edu.au; www.canberra.edu.au
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