{"69047":{"#nid":"69047","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Music Technology Symposium Resonates Among Educators, Composers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChanging Tunes:  Expanding Music through Technology\u003C\/em\u003E was the theme of this year\u0027s College of Architecture Dean\u0027s Symposium on the Changing Nature of Practice. Held on March 3, 2007, this year\u0027s event focused on the emerging developments in music technology that promise to revolutionize musical performance, composition, analysis, and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Music Technology and Associate Professor Gil Weinberg was pleased with the success of the symposium. \u0022We were very happy with the caliber of speakers, the high attendance, and the inspiring discussions that were generated at the Changing Tunes symposium,\u0022 said Weinberg. \u0022The Music Department regards the international, national, and local interest in the symposium as a great jump-start for our new graduate degree in music technology.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium included sessions on music education, cognition, performance, and the relationship between music and architecture. The attendees came from the music industry, other universities, the public school system, and the Georgia Tech alumni family. Presenters included Georgia Tech Professors Parag Chordia, Athanassios Economou, Jason Freeman, Ronald Lewcock, Jerry Ulrich, Bruce Walker, Gil Weinberg, and Music Department Director Frank Clark.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther presenters included David Huron, The Ohio State University; George Lewis, Columbia University; Henry Panion III, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Thomas Rudolph, director of music at the School District of Haverford (Pennsylvania) Township; Pierre Ruhe, music critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and Jessica Peek Sherwood, Sonic Generator (flutist). These scholars and practitioners discussed ideas and demonstrated developments in areas ranging from new interfaces for musical expression and algorithmic composition to music information retrieval, music networks, and machine musicianship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Dean\u0027s Symposium was a wonderful event with a number of substantive outcomes,\u0022 said Frank Clark, director of the Music Department. \u0022Each year the event brings hundreds of visitors to the Tech campus, produces meaningful scholarship, generates debate, adds to our visibility and credibility, and celebrates the diversity and richness of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Dean\u0027s Symposium series is an annual event jointly sponsored by the College of Architecture and its Alumni Committee. An extensive summary of this year\u0027s Changing Tunes will appear in the center scholarly section of the fall 2007 newsletter.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27220","created_gmt":"2007-04-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:52","author":"Leslie Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69048":{"id":"69048","type":"image","title":"Dr. Gil Weinberg moderates a panel","body":null,"created":"1449177228","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:48","changed":"1475894604","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:24"},"69049":{"id":"69049","type":"image","title":"Dr. David Huron from The Ohio State University","body":null,"created":"1449177228","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:48","changed":"1475894604","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:24"}},"media_ids":["69048","69049"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"13819","name":"Dean\u0027s Symposium"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"1180","name":"Music"},{"id":"1309","name":"music technology"},{"id":"167096","name":"school of music"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}