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Instrument makers to battle for 10K in prizes in the final round. 

Musical instrument uses muscle vibrations to create expressive sound.

TechArts aims to enrich the student experience, develop the campus and its neighborhood as a vibrant live-work-learn-play environment, and advance scientific research at the nexus of technology and the arts.

Smart-phone enabled robotic musician responds to and enhances listeners' musical experiences.

Among the first programs of its kind, and the only one in the Southeast, the new PhD in Music Technology will help meet rising demand for multidisciplinary music technology talent in academia and industry.

The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) has hit the right chord by blending research with technology that meets industry needs while creating tools for new and memorable performances.

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“The Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is a platform for bringing like-minded inventors and composers together from all over the world to develop their ideas and careers,” said Gil Weinberg, director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Georgia Tech is no longer accepting submissions to the 2012 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Finalists will be invited to Atlanta February 16-17, 2012, where contestants will compete for $10,000 in cash prizes.

EarSketch, a new NSF-funded project in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, will try to encourage African American high schoolers to learn computer science by teaching them to write computer code for remixing hip hop music. 

Contemporary music ensemble helps Georgia Tech more deeply connect to the world of art, technology and expression in original production combining live music, dance and theatrical design.

Grant will fund new line music creativity products.

The Double Slide Controller--an electronic trombone-like instrument featuring two independent slides and two versatile hand controllers--captured first prize at Georgia Tech’s 2010 Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition.

Position will strengthen research support and interdisciplinary ties.

The Georgia Tech Music Department announced its annual Guthman Competition will this year discover the best ideas for innovative musical instruments.

Georgia Tech researchers are using technology to make learning to play instruments a little easier. Piano touch is a light-weight glove that is outfitted with electronics that cue the musician with vibrations on each finger that lets them know which finger they need use to play the next note.

If you own a cell phone, then new software created by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology director Gil Weinberg and his students will allow you to be the next composer and performer of your own original music.
Georgia Tech's Music Department is still making great music, but the department is also creating a name for itself in the technology world.
Georgia Tech has created an improved version of the robotic percussionist. The second edition, named Shimon, is designed to play a melodic instrument, the marimba. It, therefore, utilizes more sophisticated algorithms for music perception and improvisation in comparison to Haile, Georgia Tech's first robotic drummer.

Georgia Tech's Music Department within the College of Architecture now offers a Master's of Science degree in Music Technology.