2024 GTCMT Student Hackathon
Hackathons are back at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology!
After a 2-year hiatus, we are proud to announce the 2024 GTCMT Student Hackathon. In this competition, teams of students aim to create unique, innovative music technology projects using various hardware and software platforms. The event takes place at Georgia Tech’s Invention Studio and the School of Music.
2024 GTCMT Judges
Previous Hackathons
From 2015 to 2021, the Moog Hackathon was held every year at Georgia Tech’s Center for Music Technology. The 2021 Moog Hackathon came to life through a virtual format from February 12-21. For it's 7th annual edition, the Moog Hackathon welcomed 12 student teams that accepted the challenge to design and build novel musical instruments using Moog platforms and other software and hardware prototyping tools. The winners were celebrated as part of the Guthman Musical Instrument Fair in March 2021.
The e-Trombone is equipped with an array of wind sensors to allow players to create brass-like sounds through different blowing techniques.
Mission Control is a three paneled instrument that requires expert coordination and teamwork between three musicians to play original music.
The Zen Garden was a completely original instrument with design inspired by the creators roots in China, and did not require a musician to play it.
Moog's Greatest Hits is a wooden drum box rigged with a Moog synthesizer that is placed in a cardboard box, which is lifted, lowered, swung, and even tossed between musicians to create a range of sounds that accompany the beat.
The Big-Eared Scrambler is a controller design based on the gestures of an accordion. It contains an embedded Moog Werkstatt for sound generation, but also features a patch bay allowing it to send control voltages to any modular synthesizer system. The instrument can be pulled, pushed, twisted, or played using buttons, knobs, or the built in digital scrambler.
The VCG looks like a guitar but incorporates a breath controller that functions similarly to woodwind instruments. To play it, a musician breathes into a tube attached to the instrument’s body and runs his fingers along ribbon sensors placed along the guitar neck.
