Gil Weinberg
Associate Professor
Director, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology
Gil
Weinberg is the Founding Director of Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology,
where he established the M.S and PhD programs in Music Technology. He
holds an associate professorship position in the School of Music and an adjunct
professorship position in the School of Interactive Computing. Dr. Weinberg
research aims at expanding musical expression, creativity, and learning through
meaningful applications of technology. His research interests include robotic
musicianship, new instruments for musical expression, mobile music, and
sonification. During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he has published over 50
peer-reviewed papers and 7 patent applications. Based on his recent inventions
- a set of musical applications that allow novices to create music in expressive
and intuitive manner - he is has founded a startup company - ZOOZ Mobile -
whose products have been downloaded by close to 2 millions users.
Weinberg's music has been featured in festivals and concerts such as Ars
Electronica and SIGGRAPH, and with orchestras such as Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the
Scottish BBC Symphony. His interactive musical installations have been
presented in museums such as the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Boston
Children's Museum. With his improvising robotic musicians, Haile and Shimon, he
has traveled world wide, featuring dozens of concerts and presentations in
festivals and conferences such as SIGGRAPH, DLD, and the World Economic Forum
in Davos. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Media Arts and
Sciences from MIT and his BA degree from the Interdisciplinary Program for
Fostering Excellence in Tel Aviv University.
