{"587695":{"#nid":"587695","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Creating the Next Musical Instruments","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world\u0026rsquo;s weirdest musical competition is returning to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe annual Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition showcases the innovation taking place where engineering and musicianship intersect. The contest highlights what\u0026rsquo;s next in muscial instrument design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0026rsquo;s nearly 20\u0026nbsp;semifinalists represent 10 countries. The finalists will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. on March 9 at the Ferst Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThink of these peculiar inventions as the X-Men of musical instruments. But these mutants are also clever devices that expand our assumed notion of what constitutes an instrument and the sounds it can produce.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are some examples:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EInfinitone: About the size of a soprano saxophone, this is a technologically enabled woodwind instrument. Instead of keys, the Infinitone uses a series of five slides, each controlled by a servo motor in real time via custom iPad interfaces.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOptron: It looks like a fluorescent lamp, but this instrument is held and performed like a guitar. With the power of 144 ultra-bright, individually addressable RGB LEDs, Optron can rapidly switch between using light as a visual effect and using it as control input.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoining the semifinalists are three Georgia Tech graduate students who earned an entry to Guthman by winning the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.guthman.gatech.edu\/2017-hackathon-winners\u0022\u003EMoog Hackathon\u003C\/a\u003E, which was held earlier this month on campus. The students \u0026ndash; Somesh Ganesh, Lamtharn Hantrakul and Zack Kondak -- invented \u0026ldquo;Moog\u0026rsquo;s Greatest Hits,\u0026rdquo; a drum and synthesizer attached to a cardboard box.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGil Weinberg, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtcmt.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Music Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, has worked to grow the program into an international phenomenon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is exciting to see the great quality of our semifinalists this year,\u0026rdquo; Weinberg said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward to play with these instruments myself. I hope we will see at least some of them commercialized in the future, so they can be enjoyed by everyone.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The contest awards $10,000 in prizes, including a $5,000 first prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe judges consider three elements: the sound, the design, and the interaction between the musician and the instrument.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are this year\u0026rsquo;s judges: Mike Adams, CEO of Moog Music; Elain Chew, professor of digital media at Queen Mary University of London; and Daedelus, a music producer and performer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the competition \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.guthman.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe annual Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition showcases the innovation taking place where engineering and musicianship intersect. 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