Bio

Gil Weinberg is a professor and the director of the music technology program at Georgia Tech. In his work Weinberg attempts to expand musical expression, creativity, and learning through technology. His research interests include new instruments for musical expression, musical networks, machine and robotic musicianship, sonification, and music education. His music has been featured in festivals and concerts such as Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, ICMC, and NIME, and with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish BBC Symphony. His interactive systems were presented in museums such as the Smithsonian Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Boston Children's Museum. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Before turning to academia, he co-founded and held a number of positions in music and media software companies in his home country Israel.