From odonnell at cs.uchicago.edu  Mon Jan  6 16:34:52 2003
From: odonnell at cs.uchicago.edu (Mike O'Donnell)
Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006
Subject: [Cs22800] Looking for assistant for sound class
Message-ID: <20030106223457.B863A8080A1@surya.cs.uchicago.edu>

I need someone to assist with preparation and teaching of Com Sci
29500, Digital Sound Modeling. I will teach the course in spring 2003,
but I want to hire someone now to prepare for the class. I can hire
someone as a "grader" (although grading is not part of the work) for
$1,000 per quarter, 10 hours per week, 10 weeks per quarter.

I've attached a rough description of the work for the winter
quarter. The Loris library (task #4) is particularly interesting. It's
a C+ library, with a SWIG-generated interface for Python and maybe a
few other languages. You can find it on SourceForge. It provides
analysis and synthesis techniques that are particularly good for
morhping---interpolating between two different sounds. You can make
yourself sing in a lion's voice, ... I have an alpha/beta level GUI
created as a masters project last year. It's called Fossa, and it
lives with the Loris project on SourceForge. I'd like to redesign the
class project to use Loris, but I don't want students (particularly
music students) to be eaten up by interface programming, so I need
someone to help me evaluate Loris and Fossa, decide whether Fossa can
work well enough with some fixing, possibly write some other interface
software.

Let me know ASAP if you're interested.

Mike O'D.
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1. Select, install, and establish techstaff support procedures for a
Web discussion system similar to HyperNews (which is no longer
supported). The most likely candidate is PHPBB
(http://www.phpbb.com/). I need this for all of the courses that I
teach. 3 weeks of work.

2. Inspect and fix sound services for the computers available to
students for their project work, including those in the Regenstein
labs and in Ryerson 257. This includes making sure that sound cards
are installed and working, that headphone plugs are accessible and
functional, that volume controls are installed and working, that audio 
device drivers are configured appropriately. 1 week of work.

3. Review, update, install sound manipulation software, including
MixViews, CSound, Cecilia, Loris, Sndan, Snd. 2 weeks of work.

4. Write interface programs to allow students to use the Loris sound
manipulation library for project work. 3 weeks of work.

5. Organize Web materials for the course, configure the new discussion 
system. 1 week of work.