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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [NIME community] The Third Guthman Musical Instrument Competition - Call for Entrees Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:40:04 -0400 From: Gil Weinberg gil.weinberg@me.com To: community@nime.org
The Third Guthman Musical Instrument Competition - Call for Entrees
Submit Entrees Online by October 1st 2010
Inventors, composers, creators, and designers are encouraged to submit their musical instrument inventions to the 2011 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. The event is hosted by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology and features a grand prize of $5,000. In total, $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the best novel musical instruments. Entries will be accepted through October 1, 2010 via an Online Submission Form and notification of acceptance will be provided November 1, 2010.
The competition, which will take place February 24-25 2011, will be judged by an expert panel including Tom Oberheim, inventor of the first polyphonic music synthesizer, Sergi Jorda, inventor of the Reactable tabletop musical instrument, Georgia Tech professor Jason Freeman, and Wired.com music journalist Eliot Van Buskirk. This annual competition is supported by the philanthropic gifts of Tech alum Richard Guthman in honor of his wife Margaret. It showcases new uses of technology to enhance participation in music performance and music creation.
For more information about previous iterations of the competition, judging criteria, submission format etc. go to our website.
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions, and please feel free to distribute this information to other interested parties,
Sincerely,
Gil Weinberg Director, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology 840 McMillan St. Atlanta, GA 30332 (404) 385-7642