Music Department Faculty Wins New Musical Instrument Competition
J. Thomas Henriques, assistant professor of music, has earned the top prize at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology’s 2010 Guthman Musical Instruments Competition.
Henriques’s Double Slide Controller—a futuristic looking instrument that utilizes hand controllers to modulate pitch and tone—suitably impressed the judges. Watch Youtube video.
The competition included over two dozen entries from six countries.
One of the world’s foremost experts in electric and digital music, Henriques joined the Music Department faculty in spring 2009. Prior to his arrival at Buffalo State, the educator taught at the University of Lisbon in Portugal for 13 years. His research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), music theory and composition, music and linguistics, and computer music.
Henriques’s Double Slide Controller—a futuristic looking instrument that utilizes hand controllers to modulate pitch and tone—suitably impressed the judges. Watch Youtube video.
The competition included over two dozen entries from six countries.
One of the world’s foremost experts in electric and digital music, Henriques joined the Music Department faculty in spring 2009. Prior to his arrival at Buffalo State, the educator taught at the University of Lisbon in Portugal for 13 years. His research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), music theory and composition, music and linguistics, and computer music.
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