On September 16 at 10 am Pacific, a Youtube livestream will showcase the entries of the 15 finalists of the MIDI Innovation Awards, and select the 5 category winners chosen by the jury.
Tune in to discover some of the most exciting music technology products of the moment, and inventors quizzed by an all-star jury composed of Roger Linn, Nina Richards, Bian Liunian, Pedro Eustache, Jean-Michel Jarre and Michele Darling.
The event is co-hosted by @Tantacrul and @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
Just click this link to sign up for the Youtube Live event.
Your votes selected the three finalists from each product category.
You can click on the image to go to the full article about the product.
MIDI Innovation Award 2023 Finalists
COMMERCIAL HARDWARE FINALISTS
InstaChord is a strummable MIDI chord instrument/controller. By assigning the Nashville Number method to each buttons, even beginners can play right away.
Roland’s world-class sounds in a high-performance wind instrument that responds to the dynamics and expression worthy of professional woodwind and brasswind players.
The expressive MPE controller and intuitive software to produce, perform and learn music
HARDWARE PROTOTYPES AND NON-COMMERCIAL FINALISTS
Abacusynth is a kinetic synthesizer inspired by an abacus. Its playful interface allows anyone to explore synthesis and timbre, regardless of their musical experience.
An augmented guitar for percussive fingerstyle, using AI to transform the body into an expressive MIDI controller for rich multi-dimensional control of drum synthesisers.
MusiMoto is a SW+HW system designed to empower anyone who likes playing MIDI musical instruments to do it while walking, jogging, riding, skating or dancing.
COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE FINALISTS
Innovative MIDI sequencer that uses a “Pizza”-like circular interface to give you granular control over any beat division.
One program to rule them all: MIDI patchbay/router, setlist manager, digital mixer, software instrument and effects host, PDF music score display, multitrack audio player
Breakthrough technology combines the realism of digital sampling with the expressivity of modeling. Limitless tone color featuring all new recordings of a German Steinway D.
SOFTWARE PROTOTYPES AND NON-COMMERCIAL FINALISTS
A MIDI enabled VST plugin to incorporate a multitude of audiovisual devices into a musical performance.
Music Tapestry is a new musical analysis technology that visualizes musical performances in real-time and produces a piece of art.
Discover Netz, an immersive mixed reality musical instrument and controller featuring a keyboard-like interface with expressive MPE MIDI that learns your gestures using AI.
ARTISTIC/VISUAL INSTALLATIONS FINALISTS
sononyms: an immersive sound installation based on the Jazz Cerkno archives and local objects from Cerkno Museum.
Sound Sculpture is an interactive musical instrument, comprised of 25 location-aware cubes. It is a physical sound and light environment that facilitates cooperative sound composition.
The “drankorgel” project is an artistic installation of a MIDI instrument that generates sounds by hitting bottles with spoons and by blowing air over bottles.
We will be sending out more detailed information about the MIDI Innovation Awards live show soon so stay tuned.
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