The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology

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The Center for Music Technology aims to transform the ways we create and experience music, and to create the next generation of technology for composition, performance, consumption, and education.

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The Moog Hackathon

The MOOG Hackathon is a 48-hour competition. Moog Hackathon participants design and build novel musical instruments using Moog platforms and other software and hardware prototyping tools provided by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology and the Invention Studio.

6th Annual Moog Hackathon

Research topics

The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology conducts research in a wide variety of areas, split among five different labs.

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Brain Music

Combines EEG (brainwave data) and other physiological measurement techniques with new music technologies.

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Cognitive Musicology

Aims to answer questions about musical structure and organization, and how people respond to those structures.

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Computational Music for All

Seeks to engage a broad and diverse public in creative and collaborative music-making.

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Music Informatics

Designs the next generation of intelligent music software, and new ways to produce, access, and enjoy music.

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Robotic Musicianship

Researches methods of creating meaningful musical interactions between humans and machines.

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