In the News
Read what the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Forbes, VICE, and others have to say about the Competition and its impact on the music technology industry.
Popular Science Dissects Guthman 2024
Popular Science dives into the 2024 finalists' variety of instrument innovations and how recent trends evolve to create intuitive and accessible musical experiences. Explore the Guthman competition's latest music technology inventions on Popular Science.
Gizmodo's Take on Guthman 2024
Gizmodo delves into how the 2024 finalist instruments innovate across different domains of industrial design, musical performance, and computation. Discover Gizmodo's insights into this year's competition and its diverse array of finalists.
Who's Inventing New Instruments?
Discussion on NPR's The Colin McEnroe Show
NPR podcast The Colin McEnroe Show features School of Music Chair and Professor, Jason Freeman, in a discussion on who, why, and how new musical instruments are created and how platforms such as the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition promote the creative music innovation space.
Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments
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.
Music Technologists Find Inspiration, Community at Guthman
The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is a favorite destination for musical instrument inventors and music technologists. It's been called the "Pulitzer Prize of the New Instrument World" and the "X-Prize for Music." Music technologists tell us why they come to Georgia Tech to share innovative ideas and learn from their peers.