Job: Assistant Teaching Professor in Emerging Music Technologies, UC Santa Cruz

The Music Department (http://music.ucsc.edu/) at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a music technology practitioner with significant accomplishments in emerging technologies for sound and music production, composition, and/or scholarship, to join the faculty of the Music Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor (payroll title: Lecturer with Potential Security Of Employment). The successful candidate will be a founding member of UCSC’s Creative Technologies program, a new, multi-departmental, online undergraduate major dedicated to advanced, innovative web-based arts and design pedagogy, and the cultivation of justice and empowered community in digital contexts.

Deadline: 09.01.2024

The Music Department seeks a practitioner who, as Assistant Teaching Professor in Emerging Sound and Music Technologies, will teach and mentor a wide range of students in music composition, sound art, and/or sound design and scoring, situated in a vital, collaborative, arts community focused on radical inclusion, accessibility, equity, and justice. The ideal candidate’s research and teaching specializations will include expertise in current software, hardware, and/or coding applications for music and sound, music composition and/or related practices in music production, and may include (but need not be limited to) scholarship in sound, hearing, and accessibility; critical histories and genealogies of sound; equity- and justice-focused applications of emerging machine-learning and/or AI-oriented sound and music technologies; socially engaged media; playable media; user experience design; or aural and intermedia components of web and social media applications. The ideal candidate will also have experience in hybrid and web-based teaching tools—preferably with significant teaching experience in online and remote-access environments. We welcome applicants who define their creative work broadly and inclusively, across or transcending traditional disciplinary, genre, or media categories, and who have significant experience in modes of production that center collaborative approaches, and/or that challenge conventional notions of authorship and audience. We welcome and encourage national and international applicants working in any of a wide range of creative practices, including one or more of the general areas described above, but not limited to them.

More information here.://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01658