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Leslie Bennett, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology
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Summary Sentence: This must-see event is a hotbed for musicians and artists who are pushing the boundaries of music performance. Learn more about the judges, finalists and what to expect at the event.
Full Summary: View the final performances via live webcast on Friday, February 17, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The site will feature live chat and segments from preliminary performances.
Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
Submissions to the Guthman Musical Instrument CompThe Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering.
Final performances will be webcast live at www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/guthman2012. No log-on is required, and the site will feature live chat and segments from preliminary performances.
The preliminary schedule follows:
Thursday, February 16: Preliminary performances, 9:20 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, February 17:
“We want the competition to be the place to see, experience and engage the future of music,” said Gil Weinberg, Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. “It’s also a platform for bringing like-minded inventors and composers together from all over the world to have their ideas judged by a preeminent panel of independent experts.”
Instruments will be judged on musicality, design and engineering by an expert panel including Atau Tanaka, media artist and researcher, and Cyril Lance, chief engineer at electronic musical instrument manufacturer Moog Music.
On his approach to judging the competition, Tanaka explained, “There is a disruptive power in questioning traditional musical roles of authorship and performance. Through this questioning, the basic tenets of musical instrumentality come to light.”
In total, $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the most exciting novel musical instruments and presented by Tech alumnus Richard Guthman in honor of his musician wife, Margaret.
Twenty-four inventors, composers and designers from nine countries were selected to compete, from more than 50 entries. For a taste of the kinds of instruments that will be presented in the competition, here are four examples from this year’s entrant pool:
Past competitions have hosted a broad range of inventions, including last year’s winner, MO, by Interlude Consortium, the software that explores novel gestural interfaces for musical expression with everyday objects; and second prize winner MindBox Media Slot Machine, by German group Humatic Berlin, a vintage slot machine with an unexpected modern twist on the age-old tradition of canon composition.
Parking for the Klaus Advanced Computing Building is available in the State Street Visitor’s Lot at the intersection of Ferst Drive and State Street on campus. The cost is $1.50 per hour, payable by cash or card in advance.
Walking from the State Street Visitor’s Parking Lot: From the entrance to the visitor’s parking lot, head east on Ferst Drive walking toward Atlantic Drive. Turn right on Atlantic Drive and the College of Computing building is the second on the left. Walk through the courtyard and then through the breezeway between the College of Computing Building and the Microelectronics Research Building. Walk across the Binary Bridge over to the Klaus Building.
