Von: Paulo Chagas
Datum: 13. Dezember 2011 23:55:16 MEZ
Betreff: Position Announcement in Digital Composition
The Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside
invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant
Professor of Music in digital composition beginning July 1, 2012.
We seek a composer with a compelling record of performed and/or
published compositions and significant theoretical and practical
experience in electroacoustic music, digital music, and music
technology. Potential areas of creative activity may include, but are
not limited to, electroacoustic composition (including vocal and
instrumental music), original film/media music, computer game/theatre
music, audiovisual composition, interactivity, live electronics, and/
or record album recording and production. Experience working in
interdisciplinary contexts and with common-practice digital
composition tools (sequencers, samplers, music notation programs), is
a plus.
We seek an energetic and visionary composer whose work and ideas will
extend the existing strengths of our Department. Teaching
responsibilities will include composition and music theory at all
levels (lower-division, upper-division, and graduate). Applicants
should explain how they will contribute to our vibrant Ph.D. program
in digital composition, showcased in UCR’s Experimental Acoustic
Research Studio (EARS) and our annual concert and performance venue,
“UCR is Composing.”
Qualifications include a DMA or Ph.D. (in hand by June 2012); a
substantial portfolio of digital musical compositions or other media
projects; evidence of public creative activity; competence in a non-
digital instrument; an on-going publication record in music theory,
aesthetics, semiotics, contemporary music, music technology or digital
media; and training in the pedagogy and practice of western music
theory.
Located sixty miles east of Los Angeles, the University of California,
Riverside is one of the most diverse campuses in the U.S. More
information about the Department may be found at http://music.ucr.edu.
Salary is commensurate with education, experience, publications, and
professional record.
Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters
of recommendation (to be sent by the referees or in an academic
placement file), and audiovisual materials or scores. Review of
applications will begin January 31, 2012, and the position will be
open until filled. Applications should be submitted online to benicia.jacob@ucr.edu
and additional materials sent to Prof. Paulo Chagas, Search
Committee Chair, UCR Department of Music, 900 University Ave.,
Riverside, CA 92521-0325. All applicants will receive acknowledgement
of receipt of the application. UCR is an EEO/AA employer.
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