W3 Professorship for Composition for Digital Media (50%)

https://www.hfm-trossingen.de/nachrichten/stellenausschreibungen

The Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen is seeking to fill the following position for the winter semester 2025/26

W3 Professorship for Composition for Digital Media (50%)

which is located in the State Center MUSIC-DESIGN-PERFORMANCE of the university.

We are looking for an outstanding personality with proven expertise in the areas of cross-genre and software-supported composition for digital media.

The Landeszentrum MUSIK-DESIGN-PERFORMANCE at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen builds bridges between artistic tradition and innovative approaches of the digital age for artistic practice, research and teaching. We work together as an open and trusting team and support students intensively and individually.

Your tasks include:

• Music and sound-specific courses for digital media (including their

basics) both in the artistic focus of music design and across degree programs (e.g. new composition architectures involving creative / live coding, algorithmics and AI)-

• Supervision of interdisciplinary / transmedia / application-related

projects, both internally and in cooperation with Furtwangen University and other external partners

• Institutional cooperation / connecting dots, networking, development

of new, cross-course educational offers - also in the area of precollege and music high school, public relations, distribution

• Participation in committees and in the self-administration of the university

Our requirements for you:

• Relevant university degree
• Several years of successful work in the field of composition for digital media
• Professional artistic approach to music, language and sound in

interdisciplinary projects

• Proven expertise in digital design environments in the context of

cross-genre composition and music production for fields of application such as games, interactive audio, sound scenography / spatial sound, mobile applications (apps), theater

• Ability and willingness to engage in intensive interdisciplinary

collaboration as well as a high level of team and management skills work together as a team and provide students with intensive and individual support.

In addition, we would like to have

• Knowledge in the production of electronic music (ambient,

avant-garde, electronica, EDM)

• Knowledge in the field of music theory of algorithmic and electronic

music for students with an artistic focus on music design

• Willingness to further develop artistic research at the university
• Acquisition of third-party or project funding
• The first appointment to a professorship is initially for a

probationary period of three years. The appointment is made by the Rector.

The State University of Music Trossingen promotes professional gender equality and heterogeneity among its members. The university is expressly committed to the goal of being a family-friendly university. Severely disabled persons are given preference if they are suitable. The principles of the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) are taken into account during recruitment.

We look forward to receiving your detailed application, which you should send to us exclusively in digital form via our electronic application portal by October 15, 2024. Apply here: https://jobs.mh-trossingen.de/secuform/portal/Bewerbung1