{"514541":{"#nid":"514541","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Look Inside the World\u2019s Weirdest Musical Instrument Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGil Weinberg, the director of the center for music technology, and the event\u0027s primary organizer, tells THUMP, \u0022After a couple of years, we looked in the mirror and said do we look like a piano competition\u2014and it looked much more like a competition about design, engineering and musicality of new instruments.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022https:\/\/thump.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-look-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-musical-instrument-competition\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/thump.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-look-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-musical-instrument-competition\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/thump.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-look-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-musical-instrument-competition\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28466","created_gmt":"2016-03-16 18:39:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:04","author":"Meghana Melkote","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nidhi Desai","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/thump.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-look-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-musical-instrument-competition","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}