Job for an Max external programmer at the ligeti center
The newly founded ligeti center in Hamburg is offering a job for a research assistant in digital arts practice.
We are looking for an early career researcher (composer, computer/media scientist, musicologist or similar) with a sound knowledge in music programming (Max externals, JavaScript, Python) and the ability to reflect on societal/artistic developments driven by current media practice.
The ligeti center offers an unique opportunity to work within a transdiciplinary setting dedicated to music, theatre, media, health and technology. The center has two clusters of work groups, jointly operated by the university of music and drama, the university of applied sciences, the technical university and the university medical center Eppendorf: one dedicated to music and medicine, and the other to the transfer of knowledge, ideas and technology. The latter houses six labs: innovation lab, artistic research lab, sustainable theatre lab, haptics lab, extended reality lab and production lab. The advertized job would be both in the innovation and artistic research labs.
The center is dedicated to György Ligeti who in the 1970s helped to lay the foundations of computer music in Hamburg, a city with a vibrant music life, where both Logic and Cubase/Nuendo are being developed to this date.
https://www.hfmt-hamburg.de/fileadmin/u/pdf/bewerbung/2023_06_15_Kuenstl._Informatik__Ausschreibung.pdf
Attached please find the English version of the job advertisement:
Sounds super interesting, although I might be quite underqualified for that specific job. But if there's room for a Co-Worker finishing his Bachelor Degree in Music Education with some decent Max Programming Skills in terms of Audio and Video, I'd be more than interested.
i always find it interesting when such positions require various very specific technical skills (as if "theater and health" related things could only be programmed in python^^), while on the other hand didactic and paedagogic knowledge are not even mentioned.
the practice of letting the tax payer fund institutes which are basically private projects of their founders and whos work results are not open to the general public is highly questionable. okay, i have to admit that i really only know one of them well enough to develop such an opinion. :) but for the one i am thinking of it was true and it was quite a frustrating experience back then.
Roman, thanks for venting your frustration. As you know statistics is based on large numbers. How do you know what this center (i.e. position) is all about? The first phase of it brought Drawsocket to you and the general public (https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/drawsocket/) and has been a great boon for networked music performance and interactive scoring. MaxScore was also funded by tax payers' money and is freely available to you if you ever considered music notation in Ableton Live. Time to change your opinion as to how your tax money is spent by institutions such as the ligeti center?
ever considered music notation in Ableton Live
both of these have only engaged in "western" music notation 😭 #HumanityIsLostForever
(just kidding... i like your music, Georg, you have my trust, anyways... i hope you find the best person for the job 😇)
Raja, you make me smile 😂