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Centre for Digital Music
2 x Post-Doctoral Research Assistants/Fellows
for EPSRC OMRAS2 project
A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and
Computational Musicology
Ref: 06404/AB
The Centre for Digital Music in the Department of Electronic
Engineering comprises about 30 researchers, all studying the science
and technology of music. With a current grant portfolio in excess of
£3M, and a world-wide reputation for excellence, the Centre is at the
forefront of research in the technology of music.
The 3 year EPSRC project OMRAS2: A Distributed Research Environment
for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology is a collaboration
between the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of
London and the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths’ College,
University of London, and involves a further 4 academic institutions
in the UK as partners. Altogether the project will employ 12
researchers (post-docs and PhDs). Queen Mary is seeking 2 researchers
at present.
OMRAS2 builds upon the success of the earlier OMRAS project by
integrating music analysis tools to provide a web-based research
workbench for Music Informatics (MI) specialists, Music Information
Retrieval (MIR) researchers and Computational Musicologists. The
project will undertake research in three often disparate areas:
systems architecture for musical content informatics; advanced
component research for MI and MIR, and Computational Musicology. This
adventurous combination of research dimensions has not been tackled
before, and promises to revolutionise music research in the UK and
beyond. Crucially the project makes use of Semantic Web (or Web 2.0)
technology as well as Web Services to provide a research environment
that is potentially globally distributed.
Candidates for the post will be expected to have experience in
various aspects of DSP and Computer Science for Music, Audio and
Music Information Retrieval. You will need to be a proven researcher
and able to write computer code.
Salary will be up to £28,208 per annum inclusive on the scale for
Research Scale, grade RES4 spinal point 29.
Further details and an application form can be found on our website:
http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/vacancies. Details about the Department are
on this web page: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/
Informal enquiries about any of these posts may be made either to
Professor Mark Sandler by telephone (+44 (0)20 7882 7680) or by email
([log in to unmask]).
Completed application forms including the names and addresses of
three referees, a CV and publications list, should be returned to Mrs
Sharon Cording, OMRAS2 project, Department of Electronic Engineering,
Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS or by
e-mail to [log in to unmask] by 30th November 2006.
Interviews are expected to be held in mid-December 2006.
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