About This Website

This pilot project is a collaboration between Ekomi Incorporated, located in Cupertino, California, and The New School University located in Manhattan. It was designed to give every student the opportunity to submit high quality admissions recordings because submissions ranged from pristine studio productions to recordings made on wobbly cassette recorders poised on top of out-of-tune pianos. The ekomi system helps students record, mix, label and send their admissions recordings online.

Our cloud and thin client technologies will democratize audio and video content creation and online publishing. Our systems greatly reduce the time, expertise, and expense to create professional quality audio and video. Our automatic mixing, mastering, and synchronization technologies are as significant to audio as auto focus is to video. Our approach to audio and video editing represents a paradigm shift as significant as windows was to the command line interface.

It is now possible to emulate functions that previously only humans could do. ekomi (TM) systems listen, record, mix, and master what they hear in a format that can be edited and published online. Two or more ekomi powered devices work like your ears, mixing and balancing what each ear hears into a stereo image. We can aggregate the power of handheld devices such as iPhones to capture multiple audio tracks and video camera angles, and we can offer powerful firmware accelerators and easy to use software for efficient editing, rendering, and publishing online.

Advisors

Many thanks to the people and organizations involved in our pilot programs:
The New School University Staff, especially Martin Mueller, Executive Director, Reggie Workman and Jane Ira Bloom, Musical Directors, Teri Lucas, Director of Admissions and Peter Layton, Admissions Counselor, and Professor Andy Milne. Stanford Jazz Workshop Staff, especially Jim Nadel, Artistic and Executive Director and Michael Zisman, Programs Manager; Also, San Francisco State University School of Music and Dance Staff, especially Professors Dee Spencer and Jim Witzel.

Many thanks for advice and technical assistance:
Sai Raju Nadimpali, Hitatchi Software Architect, Madan Valluri, Software Architect Consultant, Roger Hadley, Thomson Inc. Product Specialist, Willie Hill Director of the Fine Arts Center at Univerisity of Massachusetts, Mark Enright, Medical Laser Capture Systems Inventor, Wei Shen Invidia Software Architect, Vince Tien, Texas Instruments Wireless IC Designer, Jeff Phillips, Chairman & CEO of Meret Optical Communications, Murray Low, programmer at Yahoo.

Our gratitude to Samuel Chow, Chairman of Zmos Technology and Christine Wang, President of Rice Capital.

Principals

John Gaddy, president, inventor, product designer
Designed user interfaces and training for Apple, Cadence, and Synopsys, and automated digital publication processes for Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Jack Marshall, inventor, hardware & DSP architect
Designed medical ultrasound devices at Acuson and Siemens, and the ultrasound catheter as a Fellow at Boston Scientific.

Rita Chao, finance
Managed finance, administration, and investor relations for 6 Silicon Valley start-ups.