[anet08banff] Studentships @ SARC

[Pedro Rebelo]

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Research Studentships in Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University

TEN new studentships available for postgraduate study in the School of  
Music and Sonic Arts for 2009-10

Background
There are currently over forty research students in the School of  
Music and Sonic Arts, working on topics in eighteenth, nineteenth and  
twentieth-century musicology, compositional and creative practice- 
based work, and ground-breaking projects exploring technical research  
applications at SARC. Composition is one of the strongest areas of  
creative work in the School with six composers on the staff and  
outstanding facilities in SARC and in the Music Building.   
Compositional practice ranges from instrumental and electroacoustic  
music to multimedia and installation-based creative practice.  Through  
the Harty Room, the Sonic Arts Research Centre and the Sonorities  
Festival of Contemporary Music, the School has unique facilities for  
putting on public concerts with student compositions, for researching  
and developing new ideas on compositional practice, and providing  
opportunities for exposing new music to  a wider audience. PhD  
composers have regular opportunities to have their works performed and  
recorded by professional ensembles which in the last few years  
included the Smith Quartet, the Vanbrugh Quartet, and the Ulster  
Orchestra amongst others.

The School's record in attracting an international community of  
practitioners in composition, sound art, installation art,  
improvisation, performance, audio-visual design and new media makes it  
a vibrant environment in which to pursue creative work at PhD level.  
The work of PhD students is regularly showcased both locally in  
internationally at events such as the Gaudeamus Festival, Wien Modern,  
Musica Viva, Biennale di Venezia, ICMC, SEAMUS,  NIME with a number of  
students winning prizes such as EMS Stockholm, Culturas 2008 Madrid  
Musica Nova (Czech Rep.), Crash Intl. Biennale (Poland) and SCI,  
Hungarian Radio, Gaudeamus Composition.

Studentships
Applications for TEN new studentships for students from the UK (for  
full fees and maintenance) or from the EU (for full fees).  TWO of  
these studentships will be available to international students (for  
full international fees and maintenance).  Enquiries for PhD study  
should be directed to: and should be directed to:  sile at qub.ac.uk.   
Applications from students who are self-funding or who have access to  
funding from other sources are also welcome.
Starting in 2008/09, students funded through the DEL studentship  
scheme will automatically have the opportunity to undertake a period  
of fully-funded study abroad at a partner institution.  Further  
details of this scheme are available from the School.

The deadline for funding applications is Friday, 13 March 2009.  
applications should be submitted via the Queen's University  
postgraduate application website at:

https://pg.apply.qub.ac.uk/home/

Areas of Research Supervision at SARC
The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) is an interdisciplinary centre  
situated within the School.   Areas of research at SARC include  
spatial audio, networked performance, physics- based modelling of  
musical instruments, performance practice and interaction design for  
new digital musical instruments, and all Fields of sound design,  
composition and creative  practice.  Applications are welcomed for  
Ph.D. study in all of the above areas.  In particular applications are  
invited in response to the following topics:

* Spatial audio - New techniques in multi-loudspeaker reproduction,  
virtual room acoustics, outdoor acoustic simulations, cognitive  
factors and interaction with artistic practices.

* Interaction design and performance practice -  The  spectator's   
understanding of interaction with novel instruments, Low-latency  
encoding of gesture information for remote interaction and  topics in  
networked performance.

* Physics-Based Sound Synthesis - Numerical Modelling of Musical  
Instruments and other Sounding Objects, Estimation of Physical Model  
Parameters from Music.

More details on these projects can be found at:
http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/Research/ExemplarResearchProjectsatSARC/
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