Oops, pardon to the list I meant to send that privately, of course. Well, there's a little more about me if anyone is interested.
Thanks, David McGriffy On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 11:05 AM David McGriffy <da...@mcgriffy.com> wrote: > Anne, > > To see a John Muir quote on a SurSound post definitely caught my > attention. I run the audio software company VVAudio and I've just become a > Texas Master Naturalist. I believe I am uniquely qualified to be a part of > your program. > > My company, VVAudio, has been building software tools for surround > sound since 2001. My primary focus today is ambisonics, especially > ambisonic microphones. I provide the plugins that come with both Core > Sound and Brahma brand mics. I have been lucky enough to work with some of > the world's top experts in microphone array calibration and learned how > much I enjoy MatLab programming along the way. As virtual reality took > ambisonics from niche to mainstream, I was able to sell my code and > services to several large VR companies. I have ported my code to the Unity > game development environment and to mobile devices. And, perhaps > significantly for your mission, the two V's in my company name stand for > 'Visual Virtual' and as such many of my plugins feature sophisticated, > OpenGL based graphics. I believe that being able to visualize what's going > on, helps tremendously when working with sound, especially surround sound. > > I also have many skills outside of audio that pertain to this > opportunity. I have long held a day job as a programmer or IT manager > where I've worked on everything from GPS systems to oil rigs to ecommerce > websites. I've written low level firmware and I've done a lot of > development process consulting. I know how to build and manage a great > team. I believe in communicating as well as coding and as such I have > published one book (Make: Drones) and have a good start on one about VR/AR > audio. I have a life-long love of photography and I do all my own > graphics. And, as I mentioned, I just completed my training as a Texas > Master Naturalist, an education and volunteer program mostly aimed at our > state parks. > > Just as writing a book about drones combined many, diverse threads in my > life, like signal processing and flying (I am a licensed private pilot), > your opportunity looks like the perfect combination of everything I want to > be doing right now. I want to write more and better audio code. I want to > pay more attention to audio in nature. And I want to communicate my > excitement about these things to others. > > I would love to talk more about how your grant proposal process works and > how I can best help your program. > > Thanks, > David McGriffy > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:50 PM Anne Simonis <anne.simo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm an acoustic ecologist with NOAA, and my research uses underwater >> acoustic recordings to study marine mammal ecology, behavior, and the >> impacts of human noise. >> >> NOAA recently announced a small business grant opportunity, with a >> subtopic >> related to citizen science and education (subtopic 9.5 in the full >> announcement): >> https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=329444 >> >> There's a strong interest among many NOAA acoustics researchers (including >> myself!) to develop acoustic analysis tools for applications in education >> and citizen science. For example, a web-based spectrogram annotation tool >> would be very useful not only for us, but also the greater community of >> bioacoustics, speech recognition and machine learning. I imagine all of >> you >> likely have a bunch of creative ideas that this funding might also be able >> to support! >> >> The grant is a multi-phase program, with funding available for $150k for >> the first 6 months and potentially $500k for 2 years after that. >> Application period closes Jan 13, 2021. >> >> If you are part of a small business that might be interested in submitting >> a proposal, I'd be happy to talk more with you about your ideas and our >> needs. >> >> Feel free to reach out to me at anne.simonis at noaa.gov to set up a time >> to chat. >> >> Best wishes, >> Anne >> >> -- >> "All things make music with their lives" -John Muir >> >> @AnneListens <https://twitter.com/AnneListens> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20201027/ce3825e4/attachment.htm >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, >> edit account or options, view archives and so on. >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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