Arpi Mardirossian

I am very proud to announce the launch of Tagasauris. We have been working hard to develop innovative solutions for unlocking the value of multimedia collections by improving find-ability through quick, cost-effective and accurate descriptive labels. Tagasauris is a media tagging tool that’s powered by the crowd. We provide superior quality tags at lightening speed for a fraction of the cost of more traditional methods. We also connect these tags to well defined concepts and metadata with unique URLs. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge.

I am proud to announce the launch of the Freddie Katz site (designed and developed in collaboration with Tocarte). Freddie Katz is a NYC based producer/sound engineer/axe slinger!

Music visualization can be successfully used to dramatically enhance the music listening experience by providing a visual pairing that presents aesthetically pleasing imagery, reinforces emotions and moods evoked by the music, and reveals information about the features and structure of the music. The most basic and instinctive visualization of music is dance. Dance is defined as: “moving rhythmically to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures”. I am currently developing my vision of a dance based music visualization for Classical KUSC.

This visualization application will dynamically synchronize stylized dances (dancer silhouettes on a variety of backgrounds) to music to create the effect that a dancer is dancing to the user’s music selection. We have recorded video footage against a green screen of professional dancers in a variety of dance styles including hip hop, break dancing, classical Indian, Brazilian, salsa, African and bollywood. For each dancer, we have recorded a set of dance sequences of varying lengths. These sequences will be chained together in different combinations to create a variety of dances. These dances can potentially be paired with any piece of music. A dance will be synchronized to a piece of music by compressing and contracting portions of the video to align the underlying beats of the dance to that of the music.

I have the pleasure to be working with some brilliant and dedicated USC collaborators:
Michael Annetta (grad student – MFA in Interactive Media)
Ravi Nitin Balajee (grad student – MS in Electrical Engineering)
Elaine Chew (faculty member – Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Andreas Kratky (faculty member – School of Cinematic Arts)
James Taylor (grad student – MFA in Interactive Media)

I am very proud to announce the launch of the Children’s Music Fund site (designed and developed in collaboration with Tocarte). Children’s Music Fund is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide musical instruments and music therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic and life altering illnesses, and to support research on the effects of music therapy.

I am proud to announce the launch of the Leah Ellenberg Ph.D. and Associates site which I designed and developed. Leah Ellenberg Ph.D. and Associates is a Clinical Neuropsychology practice offering comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations and consultation for children, adolescents and adults.