{"207391":{"#nid":"207391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2013 Guthman Musical Instrument competition winners announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2013 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition finals were held Friday, April 11, with winners hailing from four different countries. An expert panel of judges comprised of experimental performance artist \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.laurieanderson.com\/home.shtml\u0022\u003ELaurie Anderson\u003C\/a\u003E; composer, performer and educator, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cnmat.berkeley.edu\/people\/david_wessel\u0022\u003EDavid Wessel\u003C\/a\u003E; and electronic musician and sound designer \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Devine\u0022\u003ERichard Devine\u003C\/a\u003E evaluated the 19 inventors on musicality, design and engineering. In addition, three People\u2019s Choice awards were handed out -- Best Performance, Best Instrument and Most Unusual Instrument.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst place went to Hans Leeuw and his Electrumpet. \u0026nbsp;Onyx Ashanti, performing with his Beatjazz Exo-Voice Prothesis, came in second and Merche Blasco with Espongina, third. The People\u2019s Choice awards went to Onyx Ashanti (best performance), Roland Lamb (best instrument) and Merche Blasco (most unusual instrument).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOverall winner Hans Leeuw was considered one of Holland\u2019s top jazz and improvised musicians even before he designed the Electrumpet. Most notably, he is the leader of Tetzepi, a Dutch 14-piece Big Band. In addition, Hans teaches at the Utrecht School for\u0026nbsp;the Arts and is on the faculty of the Technical University, Eindhoven where he coaches projects on the design of new musical instruments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnyx Ashanti, who captured second place and the People\u2019s Choice award for best performance, hails from Germany. He bills himself as a combination of a sci-fi obsessed electronic jazz artist and a futurologist instrument inventor. Ashanti developed his one of a kind instrument, the Beatjazz Prosthetic Exo-voice, to complement Beatjazz, the completely live, improvised form of electronic music he performs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird place and People\u2019s Choice most unusual instrument winner Merche Blasco was trained as a telecommunications engineer, but ultimately followed her passion of music, video and performance. As Burbuja, her alter ego, she has composed music to accompany many international artists and performers and has toured extensively in Europe and the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoland Lamb\u2019s Seaboard won People\u2019s Choice best instrument, although his path to instrument development has been unusual. He went from practicing Zen Buddhism in Japan to Harvard, where he graduated with a degree in classical Chinese and philosophy. After receiving a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship, he went to the Royal College of Art to pursue a master\u2019s degree in design products. While there, he developed an award-winning approach to building three-dimensional pressure-sensing interfaces which became the basis for ROLI, his start-up that produces the Seaboard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn total, $10,000 in cash prizes were awarded and presented by Tech alumnus Richard Guthman in honor of his musician wife, Margaret. The event is considered a hotbed for musicians and artists who are pushing the boundaries of music performance. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/mods\/multimedia\/2009\/03\/gallery_instruments\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWired.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has called it the \u201cX-Prize for music,\u201d and contestants have likened it to a TED Conference for new musical instrument designers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech School of Music and the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECombining transdisciplinary research and technology with the art and tradition of music, the Georgia Tech School of Music and the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology offer mind-expanding performances and exhibitions; a leading graduate degree program in music technology; and a collaborative framework for students, researchers, government agencies and industry partners to transform the way we listen to, create and perform music.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2013 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition featured winners from four countries\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The 2013 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition featured winners from four countries"}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2013-04-18 07:41:47","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"207381":{"id":"207381","type":"image","title":"Guthman winner","body":null,"created":"1449179988","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:59:48","changed":"1475894864","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:44","alt":"Guthman winner","file":{"fid":"196773","name":"guthman2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/guthman2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/guthman2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8268,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/guthman2_0.jpg?itok=SKRWUE9c"}}},"media_ids":["207381"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"42931","name":"Performances"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"64401","name":"2013 Guthman winner"},{"id":"64391","name":"electrumpet"},{"id":"11923","name":"georgia tech school of music"},{"id":"8838","name":"GT School of Music"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Herrmann - Director of Communications - College of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}