JAZZ MUSICIANS

Use the ekomi player to record and send your practice, rehearsals, performances, classes, and lessons. The player features an automatic, one-click, process for recording and overdubbing. Overdubs are automatically mixed and mastered, so the focus remains on practice and composition rather than mastering recordings.

For jazz students and schools, ekomi provides a specially designed player and supporting services that allow students to create enrollment recordings embedded with application information and easily submit them from anywhere in the world. The ekomi player combines recordings, text, and graphics into a single, portable multimedia envelope and reliably delivers them online. The ekomi server software provides tools for scheduling and managing the high volume of enrollment recording downloads from students rushing to meet application deadlines.

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music now participates in the online audition program and provides applicants with accompaniment recorded by students and staff, which is available through the ekomi player. The accompaniment includes musical clues for students to respond to that aid the evaluation process. Music department directors Jane Ira Bloom and Reggie Workman use the player to play audition recordings, display applicant information, and manage recordings with a few mouse clicks. Martin Mueller, executive director, promotes ekomi as an application of modern technology that maintains the cohesive old world, pedagogical environment of the school. It allows the school to reach the ends of the earth to find talented musicians and bring them into mentoring relationships with faculty members.