What is: open rank position in sound design with the aim to teach courses at different levels and participate in ambitious research projects according to the program in Arts and Technology.
Why it is interesting: you may be eligible to hold one of several newly endowed Professorships in Arts and Technology.
Who wants you: School of Arts and Humanities, The University of Texas, Dallas, USA.
Full job description: University of Dallas
The 2011 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of Sound and Music Computing. It will be hosted by Conservatory Cesare Pollini at the University of Padova, Italy, July 06-09 2011.
The calls for submission are two: music and paper. Important dates are here.
These are the conference topics:
For more information visit the contact page.
The 2011 International Computer Music Conference will be hosted by Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield, England, from July 31 to August 5 2011.
The calls for submission are two: music and paper. The main deadline is 18 January 2011.
For more information visit the contact page.
We just posted about Sonic Interaction Design and the importance of the COST Action IC0601 on SID for the development of this new discipline, which is gaining a relevant role in the world of sound design.
Some members of the SID Action and the Design Factory of the Aalto University organized the Product Sound Design Summer School in August 23-26 2010, at Espoo, Finland, with the aim to educate the future product design and development team members with a specific competence on interactive sound.
We interviewed Stefano Delle Monache, one of the organizers, to better know issues and objectives of the course.
Stefano Delle Monache
It will be one of the most critical issues for the automotive industry in the next three years: the sound of electric cars (EV) and hybrids (HEV). If you own a car, a motorcycle or a spaceship, it’s impossible that you never heard about the friendly Nissan LEAF, the sexy Fisker Karma or the worldwide well-known Toyota Prius. These will be the cars of our future, a new industrial mashup made of design, innovation and green technology.
This is surely nice, but electric and hybrid vehicles have a huge problem: they’re quiet. Too quiet. A conventional combustion-engine vehicle when stationery emits a sound of 50 dB, while the noise generated by an electric one is 0 dB. At a speed of 12 km/hr the conventional car is at 60 dB, the electric car is at 50 dB. When moving at a speed bigger than 20 km/hr, the intensity of the emitted sound is the same for all the vehicles, due to the friction with the ground. The reduced sound signature of hybrid and electric cars introduce a safety concern to cyclists and pedestrians, because they hardly detect vehicles at low speeds. This problem becomes more dramatic for blind and visually impaired pedestrians, who use auditory informations, like noise generated by vehicles, to localize streets, crossroads and make decisions in order to move safely.
I and Sara are working in Lorelei with FIAMM, world leader in the market of acoustic devices, for the development of a solution to the problem of quiet electric cars. Our mission: to guarantee the safety on the roads, but not only…