Third Place: Electromagnetic Piano
David Shea, Monica Lim, Mirza Ceyzar
This is an attachment to an acoustic piano that uses magnets to resonate piano strings. It allows a musician to sustain notes indefinitely as well as trigger notes by using interfaces other than the keyboard. Because it is a modular attachment, the Electromagnetic Piano can be applied to all the strings on a piano, just a few strings on a piano, or even to multiple pianos. This allows traditional acoustic piano sounds to play simultaneously with the magnetically generated sounds, and is a novel feature in electro-acoustic instruments.