Cambridge in a twist over musicology job
mainThe Times Higher Educational Supplement has picked up on a storm generated by Slipped Disc over a Cambridge advertisement for a Senior University Lectureship in Wagner, Liszt and the Cultural History of Technology.
The terms are so specific that it seemed highly likely the job was tailored to a known individual.
The THES won’t. But it does report widespread discomfort among academics at the terms of the engagement. As well as the official line:
Nicholas Cook, head of the music department, said that it was for a “strategic appointment”.
A Cambridge spokesman added that it had “advertised to fill an identified need for a specialist academic role” and an “open application process, which includes a rigorous interview stage, is ratified by our human resources team and is fully in line with UK employment law”.
Read the THES report here.
My biggest issue is that, reading the one article I could find, it was shite. Anybody who knows anything about up upmixing could tell you he is just wrong (or incredibly narrow o the point of irrelevance) in this article, appearing to think upmixed audio simply sends the stereo signal to all speakers:
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2F5051_B123DBA182C4A008F2074CB01DDAB34D_journals__OPR_OPR26_01_S0954586713000311a.pdf&cover=Y&code=85a1c033007909576798fcc5c0bfb3b2#xml=http://journals.cambridge.org/data/userPdf/
The one thing that upmixing does is retain the original stereo image…