From: Stephen Arnold <stephen@music.glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: Job in Computer Music
Keywords: NeXT,UNIX, computer music, digital audio
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:54:21 GMT


Technician in Computer Music Technology

This new post complements the present post of Computer Music
Operator/Programmer and primarily involves maintaining, developing and
demonstrating professional recording, synthesis, processing and
audio-visual equipment, and giving support to a community of student,
academic and professional users from home and overseas, working in the
areas of teaching composition and research.

The Department has extensive audio and computing facilities, mainly
based in an Audio Lab and a Composition Studio.  Equipment includes
Soundcraft mixers, Tascam, HHB and Revox recorders, Yamaha
synthesizers, an Akai sampler, Lexicon, Drawmer and Alesis processors,
and Atari and NeXT computers which are linked to the campus ethernet.

Included as supported music systems are csound, cmusic, cmix and clm,
as well as a wide variety of MIDI applications.

Among courses offered are an M.Mus. in Computer Music and a B.Sc. in
Electronics with Music, taught jointly with the Department of
Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

You will have extensive experience with a variety of music
technologies, including professional recording and broadcasting
studios, the ability to operate and demonstrate complex systems and a
familiarity with good studio practice.  Familiarity with programming
UNIX systems, and software systems such as CSOUND, CMIX and Common
LISP Music would be an advantage, as would a full understanding of
MIDI.  You will have an organized and disciplined approach and will
enjoy taking responsibility and working within a small team to support
the Department's academic and professional responsibilities.  You will
be expected to assist students and other users of the
music-technological resources, and take responsibility for at least
one of the studios.

Salary placing will be on the Grade E scale, 13,476-15,166 pounds per
annum.  Application forms and further particulars can be obtained from
the Personnel Office (Non-Academic) 041 339 8855 Ext. 5855, quoting
reference T/115, where applications should be lodged by 30 November,
1992.

The University is an EO employer.

University of Glasgow
Department of Music

Technician in Computer Music Technology

Further Particulars

The appointed person will work to the direction of the Director of the
Computer Music Studios (Dr. Stephen Arnold) and of the Head of
Department (Professor Graham Hair).  The post involves taking
responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Department's
professional audio and audio-visual equipment, liasing with the
Computer Music Operator/Programmer (whose primary responsibility is
for the Department's computing facilities) and giving support to a
growing community of student, academic and professional users.

Applicants should have a minimum level of qualification equivalent to
an HNC, although a degree-equivalent qualification is expected.

Applicants should have experience of most, if not all, of the
following:

working in electro-acoustic music studios, computer music studios,
recording studios or broadcasting studios

setting up and maintaining audio systems of various kinds

diffusing electro-acoustic music in concert situations

digital audio

CSOUND, CMIX, Common LISP Music

MIDI, particularly in the recording studio

programming in C, C++, Objective C, UNIX


Applicants must be willing to:

manage and maintain the Department's audio and audio-visual resources

organize the ordering of consumables relating to these resources

provide some technical cover for the Department's computing resources

work with the users of the Department's audio and computing facilities

support the academic and professional work of the Department

follow and enforce the rules for the use of the Department's
facilities.


It is especially important for that the appointee work responsibly and
well, and in an organized manner, without moment-to-moment supervision
and within a small team of colleagues.  Typical working hours are
between 9.30 a.m. and 5.30 a.m.  Annual leave, including public and
customary holidays, is 34 days.  The Department is willing to provide
opportunities for research and composition to an appropriately
qualified appointee.

Salary will be within the scale 13,476-15,166 pounds per annum (Grade
E).  Discretionary additions may be payable in recognition of
exceptional performance.

The Department has extensive audio and computing facilities, mainly
based in two Audio Labs, a research room and a Composition Studio.
Equipment includes Soundcraft mixers, Tascam, HHB and Revox digital
and analogue recorders, Yamaha synthesizers, an Akai sampler, Lexicon,
Alesis and Drawmer processors, a network of over 40 NeXT computers
which are linked to the campus ethernet.  It is believed that that
these high-end UNIX workstations comprise the most powerful computing
resource devoted to musical and audio applications currently in the
UK.  Included as supported music systems are csound, cmusic, cmix and
clm, as well as a wide variety of MIDI applications.  In order to meet
the demands of expanding student numbers, a new Centre for Music
Technology is being planned, with additional recording facilities
linked to an adjoining Concert Hall which is fully wired for
recording, as is the nearby Bute Hall.

The Department of Music runs undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
a various aspects of Music and Technology and the Composition of
Electro-Acoustic and Computer Music.  Among courses offered are the
M.Mus. in Computer Music and the B.Sc. in Electronics with Music,
taught jointly with the Department of Electronics and Electrical
Engineering (with which a second Audio Lab and the entire NeXT network
is jointly managed).

The Department's professional work in recent years has included more
than a dozen commissions from composers from Scotland and abroad,
Music in Our Time broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and organizing the 1990
International Computer Music Conference as part of the Glasgow's City
of Culture celebrations.  The Department is a reference site for NeXT
computers.


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