Job: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Electronic Music History (Ottowa, Canada)

The School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University and Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation (Ottawa) are accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Electronic Music History.

Deadline: June 15, 2024
More information here and here.

The anticipated start date will be September 3rd, 2024 with a flexible duration of either one year (full-time) or two years (part-time). The postdoctoral fellow will join a project investigating the history and significance of the 1948 Electronic Sackbut: a keystone artifact in Ingenium’s national electronic musical instrument collection. Designed and built by Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine, in Ottawa, between 1945 and 1948, the Electronic Sackbut is widely recognized as one of the world’s first synthesizers—and is likely the oldest surviving example of its kind. The instrument was acquired by the museum in 1975 and is currently the subject of a multi-year reconstruction project.