Research Assistant – Music and Sound Cultures in the Division of Arts and Humanities - Dr. Carlos Guedes

Description

The Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) Group, Division of Arts and Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi, seeks to recruit a research assistant to support the group on various levels. 

The Music and Sound Cultures research group is dedicated to the computational analysis and understanding of music from the Arab World and surrounding regions through a hybrid methodology employing humanistic and computational methods. Among its several projects, the group is developing a digital compendium of music from the region. This project combines digital archiving, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and the digital humanities in unique ways to develop multimedia tools that enable a deeper understanding of this music and its cross-cultural relationships. Consisting of an ever-growing collection of music from the Levant, Gulf, East Africa, and South India, this compendium contains several commercial recordings and original field recordings. MaSC is developing new ways to compare, understand and visualize this music with the goal of obtaining a deeper insight on its origins, influences, and cross-cultural traits. 

The successful applicant will be in charge of web development, music annotation and digital archiving, as well as general research support.

Web development will entail maintaining and updating the MaSC website, developing specialized websites to conduct experiments and to host specialized content (e.g. demos of existing software, musical applications that run on web browsers, etc).

Music annotation will consist in doing annotations of features of the music in specialized software (e.g. Sonic Visualizer) and creating specialized metadata tags specifying musical features to assist on the computational analysis. 

Digital archiving will support the digitization and digital transfer of music from the region according to the NYUAD Library standards for digital preservation, and prepare these data for annotation. 

General research support will include writing of technical reports and papers with the other members of the research team, as well as presentation in conferences.

The candidate will work under direct supervision of Prof. Carlos Guedes, and in collaboration with other members of the research group. 

Applicants must have at least a Bachelor’s degree in Music/Anthropology/Interactive Media/Multimedia/Computer Science and have some experience in Sound and Music Computing, and Web development. Python, Javascript or other programming languages are desired. 

A previous experience on digital archiving, computational analysis of music and/or musical annotation would be an asset.

For consideration, applicants need to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae with full publication list, statement of research interests and three letters of reference, all in PDF format. If you have any questions, please email Prof. Carlos Guedes at cag204@nyu.edu.

The terms of employment are very competitive and include housing and educational subsidies for children. Applications will be accepted immediately and candidates will be considered until the position is filled. To be considered, all applicants must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, transcript of degree, a one-page summary of research accomplishments and interests, and at least 2 letters of recommendation, all in PDF format. Please visit our website at http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/about/careers/faculty-positions.html

About NYUAD:

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.

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