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From: Christopher Hummersone
Date: 2016 June 16
Subject: Job opportunity: Lecturer A/B in Audio
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Lecturer A/B in Audio
University of Surrey
Guildford
UK
Salary: £34,576 to £46,414 per annum
Post Type: Full Time
Closing Date: Thursday 30 June 2016
Interview Date: Friday 08 July 2016
Reference: 006616-R
We are seeking applications for the post of Lecturer in Audio, to be
based in the Department of Music and Media’s Institute of Sound
Recording (IoSR). We are looking for an enthusiastic academic to teach
and support the delivery of the undergraduate BMus/BSc Tonmeister®
programme in Music and Sound Recording, and to conduct world-leading
research.
The successful applicant will teach on the prestigious Tonmeister
undergraduate programme, covering two or more of the following areas:
audio signal processing, audio programming, computer audio systems,
electronics, research methods, and sound synthesis. You will be joining
a supportive and varied team of lecturers drawn from both academic and
respected industry backgrounds. The programme has a small cohort of high
quality students, enabling a highly collegiate environment between staff
and students. Our students are highly motivated and have a strong
background in music, maths and physics.
You will have a strong research profile and/or the potential to develop
and sustain research activities, with a clear vision for how your
research will progress and an idea of how it might feed into or
complement the IoSR’s goals of engineering perceptually-motivated audio
signal analysis, processing and control systems. You will be encouraged
to develop your own research profile and to produce high-quality
research outputs, including books, academic journal articles or other
appropriate forms of research output.
BACKGROUND
Running since 1970, the Tonmeister programme is unique in the way that
it combines study of audio engineering, music, and practical sound
recording. It has produced a stream of successful alumni, including
winners of Oscars, Grammys and the Mercury Prize. Our graduates work
across a wide cross-section of the audio industry, from product design
to film music composition, and this alumnus network enables us to call
upon current industry expertise in many areas. Alumni are very keen to
give something back to the programme, and our biennial summer reunion is
an excellent networking opportunity. The programme includes a
Professional Training Year, and we have regular placements with many
high-profile companies including Abbey Road Studios, Focusrite/Novation
and Sky Post-Production.
Research in the IoSR focuses on human perception of audio quality and
uses this focus to engineer perceptually-motivated signal analysis,
processing and control systems. We have projects funded by EPSRC, the
European Commission and industrial collaborators, involving human
listening tests, acoustic measurement, statistical modelling and digital
signal processing. Current work is, for example, developing systems for
spatial enhancement of object-based audio reproduction,
perceptually-optimised sound source separation and timbral perception
modelling.
There is opportunity to collaborate with many groups across the
University; previous and current projects involved the Department of
Psychology, the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP),
and colleagues in Music.
Recent development of programmes in Digital Media Arts, and Film and
Video Production Technology, have resulted in a significant hub of
research and teaching at Surrey in the area of media-related
engineering, technology and production.
The Department of Music and Media hosts a wide range of concerts,
regular research conferences and colloquia (including hosting the Audio
Engineering Society international conference on Sound Field Control in
July), as well as a thriving community of postgraduate research students.
The facilities available in the IoSR for teaching and research include:
3 recording studios containing industry standard equipment including
consoles from AMS-Neve and SSL; over 100 microphones for recording and
technical measurement; an ITU-R BS 1116 standard listening room
containing a 22.2 reproduction system; and a range of test and
measurement hardware and software. The Department is home to the Moog
Sound Lab UK, and benefits from many links with the audio, video and
computer games industries.
For an informal discussion you may wish to contact Dr Russell Mason
(Tonmeister Programme Director) at r.mason@surrey.ac.uk
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