Musician Inventors Play to Win at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology

Finalists of musical instrument competition to deliver public performances
Saturday

ATLANTA, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Six finalists of the Guthman
Musical Instrument Competition will perform Saturday at Georgia Tech in the
hopes of winning $5,000. Doors open at 11:00 a.m. for an open-house showcase
of the Center for Music Technology's recent work and performances begin at 1
p.m.

Judges for the competition include Eran Egozy, co-founder and chief technical
officer of Cambridge-based video game development company Harmonix Music
Systems, which developed Guitar Hero(R) and Rock Band(R); digital music expert
Eliot Van Buskirk, an author, columnist and blogger who writes for the
award-winning technology magazine Wired; and a faculty representative from the
Center for Music Technology, whose researchers are developing new ways to
compose, listen to and perform music.

"We are in an exciting era where the general public is starting to see how
technology can enhance participation in music performance and music creation,"
Egozy said. "I think this competition is coming at a great time. It will
encourage and reward innovation in this rapidly changing field."

"Inventors, composers, creators, and designers of all ages and affiliations
are encouraged to attend the performances and submit their ideas in future
competitions," said Tech Music Department director Frank Clark. "We expect the
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition will deliver paradigms of expression
and new modes of performance to both public and academic realms year after
year."

For the past ten years Georgia Tech alumnus Richard Guthman has sponsored a
national keyboard competition in honor of his musical wife Margaret, fostering
an array of talent among more than 500 competitors. The competition's new
direction will continue and enhance the family's dedication to music and young
musicians, and reflects Tech's Music Department's role as a center of
innovation.

The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology is located at 840 McMillan St. on
Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. For details on the competition call
404-385-7642.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research
universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public
universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its
Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and
Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and
African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to
both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100
interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

SOURCE Georgia Institute of Technology

Matt Nagel of Georgia Institute of Technology, Phone: +1-404-894-7460, Pager:
+1-404-833-0209, matt.nagel@comm.gatech.edu