Course Number and Name: MUS4823H -Sound & Vision: Techniques in Research-Creation

Course Description:This course offers students tools for analysis of and hands-on training in audio and video recording, as well as curation of completed projects for researchers, performers, and composers. Based on the expanded canon of music documentaries, field recordings, podcasts, as well as participatory and community-engaged multimedia creation, students are introduced to the theory and practice of audiovisual recording. Readings draw from music studies, media studies, sound studies, film studies, and visual anthropology. Students are encouraged to incorporate projects from their respective programs into coursework, including community-based research and iterative editing methodologies. Work in progress is presented for peer feedback, and upon completion in a final presentation with a written reflection piece. Students may also submit proposals for exhibition curation, with analyses and supplementary literature reviews

Class Schedule: Tuesdays from 3-5pm in the Winter term

Months of contract: January to April 2027

Salary: $9,997.48

Estimated Course Enrollment: 12

TA support: none

Qualifications: Doctoral degree in music. Experience in recording, documentary filmmaking, artistic curation, and festival/event production. Experience in post-secondary institutions and in community music projects/organizations preferred. Ability to advise and mentor graduate students on a wide range of research-creation projects.

Duties: Define course objectives; prepare course materials; provide clear guidelines on course requirements and regulations; teach and coordinate all classes as scheduled; administer and evaluate student assignments; prepare and submit final grades in accordance with policy. Maintain reasonable hours of student consultation outside scheduled class hours.

Closing Date: July 13, 2026

A complete application includes your responses to the application form with a cover letter and current Curriculum Vitae; click here to apply.

Daphne Tan

Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs

Associate Professor, Music Theory

Faculty of Music

University of Toronto

80 Queen’s Park

Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II and Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12. It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail. Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity-deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the position.