Employment

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.