Lecturer or Tenure Track for Sound Arts (560-100)

12 February 2026
Bern

Job summary

Join HKB as a Sound Arts educator, shaping future talents. Thrive in a vibrant, diverse environment with collaboration opportunities.

Tasks

Teach Bachelor and Master students in Sound Arts, guiding them to graduation.
Convey sound's multifaceted dimensions, from theory to technology.
Develop networks with partners to enhance the Sound Arts program and research.

Skills

Degree in Sound Arts or related field, with strong software and hardware knowledge.
Artistic practice with international visibility and publication in Sound Arts.
Teaching experience in multiple languages and current pedagogical methods.

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About the job

What you will do here

Teach and guide bachelor and possibly master students in Sound Arts towards their diploma
Convey sound in its theoretical, performative, technological, social, political, cultural-historical, and transdisciplinary dimensions
Form networks within the team and with external partners and jointly further develop the Sound Arts program and research
If suitable, additionally develop and lead your own research projects that feed back into teaching
The position can be split between two people (30-60%). When taking on a Tenure Track professorship: research experience in the disciplines mentioned above and knowledge of the Swiss research and education landscape

What you ideally bring with you

University degree in Sound Arts, Composition, Music Technology, or a comparable discipline and good knowledge of the relevant software and hardware environment
Own artistic practice, international visibility, publication activity in the field of Sound Arts
Teaching experience in higher education in German, English, and/or French, mastery of the current diversity of pedagogical methods
Possibly research experience in the disciplines mentioned above and knowledge of the Swiss research and education landscape
Willingness to teach weekly during the semester in Bern

The interviews and trial lessons will take place on March 24 and 25, 2026, as well as the 2nd round on April 1, 2026

Some of our advantages in advance

Lived and openly designed transdisciplinarity, plus a unique mix of research and teaching.
An international faculty that combines tradition with innovation, excellence with experiment, and guides our students individually towards their own careers.
A "colorful bunch" of cheerful people with very different biographies, views, and experiences awaits you.
A corporate culture that fosters diversity, artistic openness, and the transitions between disciplines, attitudes, and traditions.

I will guide you through the
application process

Daniela Werder
HR Consultant
T +41 31 848 43 37

The Bern University of the Arts (HKB)

At the HKB , a department of BFH, we unite a variety of artistic and design disciplines under one roof. As an innovative art university with an inspiring atmosphere, we place great value on interdisciplinary teaching and research in music, design and art, conservation and restoration, theater, literature, and in our transdisciplinary Y Institute.