The Xth Sense [1], has been awarded the first prize at the prestigious Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition [2] as the "world’s most innovative new musical instrument.”

The GNMIC is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering.It takes place at Georgia Tech, Center for Music Technology, Atlanta, USA.This critically acclaimed event seeks to provide a fertile platform for the advancement of the studies on New Musical Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)

The Xth Sense is a free and open project; release for public use is scheduled in April 2012.Please, visit the link below for further information.

[1] A free and open, biophysical wearable technology for musical performance and responsive milieux I’m developing since March 2011. See http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/xth-sense/

[2] Press release available at http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=110311