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[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Submit your Pd-based instruments!

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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 at me.com>
To: community at 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