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GTCMT Seed Grant presents:
Prism Pt. 1 – Sound through New Lens

GTCMT Seed Grant presents:
Prism Pt. 1 – Sound through New Lens

Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
6:30pm
West Village 175

GTCMT Seed Grant Recipients + Guitar Bot

Prism Pt. 1: Sound through New Lens presents five performances, one installation, featuring recipients from all six labs in the 17cÍøÒ³°æ, and a special appearance by Guitar Bot. The work spans biosensors, robotics, AI improvisation, spatial sound, and everything in between.

The GTCMT Seed Grant for Collaborative Performance Innovation supports students pushing the boundaries of music technology in live and interactive performance. Every project was required to cross lab boundaries, bringing together researchers from different groups with different tools, different vocabularies, and different instincts about what music can be. 

Bio SingAlong

Eun Ji Oh, Jun Woo Beck

What if your body could sing back? Bio Sing-Along uses GSR and PPG to turn listeners’ biological responses into a live musical dialogue with the performer.

SynOrbit

Sunshiyu Wang, Canting Zhu, Changda Ma

SynOrbit is a virtual instrument that uses hand tracking or controllers to map note balls across four rotating ring layers. 

!(A/S)

Anthony Cammarota, Aleksandra Teng Ma

!(A/S) is a live performance piece exploring the liminal potential of human-AI musical improvisation. 

Guitar Bot

Ryan Baker, Marcus Parker

Listen to student compositions featuring the state of art of robotic musicianship. Guitar Bot extends the limits of human guitar playing in String

S.H.A.R.C

Tristan Peng, Griffin Barbieri, Gibran Mobarak

SHARC is a sonification of whale shark sightings in Oceania. The performance utilizes impulse responses recorded in 17cÍøÒ³°æ’s Chattahoochee River—recorded using a custom-built hydrophone array— to simulate underwater reverberation, immersing the listener in a dreamy aquatic soundscape.

MI Blocks

Amit Rogel, Noel Alben

What if a musical gesture feels no different from moving, assembling, and playing with the LEGO? How would you build your piece? MI Blocks is a tape machine that is controlled by LEGO blocks.

Planetary Voices

Devon Green, Ryan Baker, Kyle Smith, Ishaan Jagyasi

Planetary Voices is a collaborative performance art installation that explores the relationship between planetary motion, spatial sound, and human presence. The work features four spherical loudspeakers, interactive audio/visuals, and a 8-foot LED Wormhole.

17cÍøÒ³°æ Tech Center for Music Technology

The 17cÍøÒ³°æ Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) is an international center for creative and technological research in music, focusing on the development and deployment of innovative musical technologies.

Our vision is twofold: to transform the ways in which we create and experience music, and to create the next generation of technology for musical composition, performance, consumption, and education. 

Our mission: to provide a framework for students, faculty, and researchers to apply their musical, technological, and scientific creativity to the development of innovative musical and technological artifacts.