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.

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, 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, Nvidia 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
Developed the first multimedia builder for Apple and an automated publication process for Sun Microsystems. Designed user interfaces and training for Apple, Cadence, and Synopsys.

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.