Job Posting: University Assistant - Centre for Systematic Musicology (Unviersity of Graz, Austria)

JOB POSTING: UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT (WITHOUT DOCTORATE)
CENTRE FOR SYSTEMATIC MUSICOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, AUSTRIA
DEADLINE: 2 SEPTEMBER 2009

The Centre for Systematic Musicology in the Faculty of Humanities seeks a University Assistant without doctorate for 20 hours per week for 4 years, beginning 1.10.2009 or soon thereafter.

Duties:
- independent research as a doctoral student in a research area of the centre (see centre homepage, http://www.uni-graz.at/zsmw/en/)
- independent teaching in German or English of one course per year (90 minutes contact time per week for 15 weeks) in Graz's BA in Musikologie; contribution to other teaching as necessary
- administrative support

Academic qualification:
- masters degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (musicology, music, psychology, sociology, information sciences, philosophy, physiology, physics)
- the ability to read a musical score and play a musical instrument
- foundations of music theory, ethnomusicology and music history
- desirable: active participation at a relevant international conference
- good command of German and English
- working knowledge of computer software for empirical music research

Personal qualities:
- ability to work independently and as part of a team; ability to communicate effectively

Deadline for applications: 2 September 2009
Reference Number (Kennzahl): 23/172/99 ex 2008/09

Please send your application in German or English including cover letter (1 page), curriculum vitae, photo, relevant certificates, documentation of required abilities, research plan (1 page), and the telephone numbers and email addresses of two possible referees, before the deadline and quoting the reference number, to:

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Personalwesen
Universitätsplatz 3
8010 Graz
or by Email to: bewerbung [AT] uni-graz.at

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Richard Parncutt (Email: richard.parncutt [AT] uni-graz.at).

CFP: 3rd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (Graz, Austria)

3RD WORKSHOP ON LEARNING THE SEMANTICS OF AUDIO SIGNALS (LSAS) 2009

SAMT 2009 CONFERENCE, GRAZ, AUSTRIA

4 DECEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://lsas2009.dke-research.de

The Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS) focuses especially on researchers that are working on semantics, description, representation and understanding of music with the goal to intensify the exchange of ideas between the different research communities involved, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between them. Therefore, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects with respect to music

information retrieval systems:

- Audio signal processing and feature extraction

- Content-based audio retrieval

- Music perception, cognition, affect and emotions

- Music structure analysis

- Semantic audio description and analysis

- Ontologies for music and sound description

- Standards for audio content description

- Machine learning methods for feature extraction and mapping

- Personalization of music retrieval systems

While our main focus is on music data, we are also interested on work related to other audio data such as speech.

Important dates:

- Deadline for paper submission: September 7, 2009

- Notification of acceptance: September 21, 2009

- Camera-ready paper submission: October 12, 2009

For the full Call For Papers and further information on the workshop, please visit http://lsas2009.dke-research.de