Interactive Music Group
Georgia Tech VIP Team
About
Design musical instruments, installations, and interactive systems that will be showcased and/or used in performance. The Interactive Music Group brings the ambitions of the Guthman Competition to a student-driven setting. The group aims to provide an inspiring environment for students to stretch and grow their creativity through making. With a focus on socially conscious making, we will design musical instruments, installations, and interactive systems that will be showcased and/or used in performance. We are particularly interested in projects where students express themselves and engage with current issues in Atlanta. The School of Music has hosted the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition since 1996. The annual event is aimed at identifying the world’s next generation of musical instruments and the best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering. Each year, we invite musical inventors to share their innovative musical instruments and engage with the campus community. Their instruments enhance the musical experience by augmenting existing acoustic instruments, focusing on accessibility with the development of new interfaces and techniques, or by building novel ways for the user to interact with sound. Student work will be featured at the Music, Art, and Technology Fair, with potential performance opportunities at Guthman Music Instrument Competition concerts and other exhibition/performance venues on campus. In the future, the Interactive Music Group will work towards showcasing our findings throughout Atlanta and presenting work on a national and international scale. The group aims to connect students to the Atlanta arts and music community and help students develop more portfolio pieces by providing an opportunity to get student creative work seen, heard, and recognized.
Majors
Computational Media, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Music Technology, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Media, Literature, Media, and Communication, Neuroscience
How to apply
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