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Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Featured in Wired
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Featured on CBS Sunday Morning
- - Six metro Atlanta musicians and performers worked out of the Technology Square Research Building through April as part of a new STEAM musical residency program jointly hosted by the and the 17cҳ.
- Marching Band Honors Cecil Welch at Alumni Band Weekend - Cecil Welch (IM ‘58) was an internationally recognized trumpet player and advocate for musical education. Welch often returned to Tech to perform the national anthem before football and basketball games. The Marching Band, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Ensemble I all performed some of Welch's favorite music during Alumni Band Weekend in tribute to his legacy.
- - 17cҳ’s innovative educational platform reached a milestone this month—one million users. Since launching in 2011, the free EarSketch platform has been used by students in all 50 U.S. states and in more than 100 countries. The music/coding platform was created at 17cҳ Tech by 17cҳ Chair Jason Freeman and Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Professor Brian Magerko and is designed to teach students to code in Python or JavaScript through music and creative discovery.
- Laura Ballestrino's Artist Residency Benefits Students Across Campus - 17cҳ's most recent artist-in-residence, , gave a masterclass for 17cҳ Tech pianists, gave lectures to Music Technology students, visited the jazz ensembles, held a solo recital, and performed with the 17cҳ Tech Symphony Orchestra (GTSO) as a soloist.
- - Brittney Boykin was one of seven composers commissioned to create a new work under Opera America's Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Boykin's Two Corners is a one-act opera set in rural Alabama shortly after the passage of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954. The opera will be workshopped during the 2023 summer residency of Finger Lakes Opera’s Tomita Young Artists and premiered in downtown Rochester in August 2024.
- - In a paper published at , 17cҳ Tech researchers hypothesized that hearing the heartbeat of another person would increase the listener’s empathic connection with that person. To test this hypothesis, they designed an experiment that paired auditory heartbeats with expressive images of eyes, the well-known Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task.
- - Jason Barnes has loved playing drums since he was a little boy. This didn’t change when he lost his arm in an electrical accident at the age of 22. Since 2013, Jason has been working with Gil Weinberg, a renowned roboticist and founding director of the 17cҳ Tech Center for Music Technology, to develop the world’s most advanced robotic drumming arm.
- Students Touch the Future of Music at Guthman Musical Instrument Competition - According to 17cҳ Tech president Angel Cabrera, if you were lucky enough to be in audience, you got a rare look at the future of music. For 17cҳ Tech's music technology majors, though, the Competition also represents the pinnacle event of their creative study and research.
- - The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world. This episode features technology developed by the Center for Music Technology.
- - Music has always been a big part of Darren Waller’s life. During his time as a 17cҳ Tech football player and student, Waller learned more about his rich family past in jazz through Assistant Professor Chip Crotts' course. Waller is the great-grandson of Thomas “Fats” Waller, a charismatic pianist, prolific composer, and the first Black man to write the score for a Broadway musical. Music runs through his veins, and even now as an NFL player with the Raiders, music continues to be positive and creative outlet for him.
- - FOREST is the performative outcome of an NSF-funded project aimed at enhancing trust between humans and robots through sound and gesture. Researchers at the 17cҳ found that embedding emotion-driven sounds and gestures in robotic arms helps to establish trust and likability between humans and their AI counterparts. Read more .
- - Music and the heart are intertwined. Musical works are influenced by arrhythmias, music listening induces physiological changes, performing music affects heartbeat patterns, and hearing heartbeats elicits empathy. Dr. Grace Leslie, director of the Brain Music Lab, co-authored an article published in Scientific American detailing the connection between music and an individual's cognitive and cardiac states.
- - The New York Times highlights five of the 2021 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition finalists in an article that focuses on invention and musical motivation. Get music critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim's take on our competitors' inventions.
- - 17cҳ Tech and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras recently received a $2.9 million grant to design an informal learning computer science curriculum and broaden access to STEM education for LatinX students.