I hope you won't mind an off topic post, but the LAD list has helped us in the past in this respect, and I hope it'll do so again. The Centre for Music Technology at The University of Glasgow has a postgraduate place funded for three years for a PhD student to undertake research into data representation of musical structures. We are looking for somebody who is fluent in music analysis to degree level, and is also a competent programmer (preferably with Linux experience) with an appreciation of databases, XML (in the context of MusicXML) and desktop programming (e.g. with KDE). We are seeking to achieve the automated discovery of musical structures in performed and written music. Past projects have involved the performances of Shoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with Soprano Jane Manning, analysis of Chopin Piano works, and microtonal performance analysis with memebers of the BBC Singers and the Royal College of Music. It is a condition of the funding that the successful applicant must be a UK national. Applicants are of course encouraged internationally if they have their own funding. We are cognisant of the fact that such a disparity of skills will be hard to come by, but there are 60 million UK nationals, and we only need one! That said, if you have some of the skill set described above and are interested, please contact me for details on how to apply. Since we are part of an Engineering Faculty and have postgraduate students already in place, music analysis skills would be particularly valued. Thanks for your time and bandwidth, Nick Bailey http://cmt.gla.ac.uk http://www.n-ism.org