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MIDI Innovation Awards 2022 Winners

 The 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards featured five distinct categories listed below. The winners were selected by the jury and are displayed in order. 

Commercial Hardware Finalists

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

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SOMI-1

Commercial Hardware Products
SOMI-1 is a highly precise sensor technology that measures movement and transforms it into sound in real-time. The Bluetooth® sensors can be worn as wearables on the wrists and ankles, turning the user into an instrument.
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WIDI Core

Commercial Hardware Products
WIDI Core is the smart (BLE) breakout board that makes premium MIDI over Bluetooth Low Energy functionality available for (DIY) developers.
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Wind Synthesizer R1

Commercial Hardware Products
Cyber-like wind controller from future. Responsive RGB light bars. Perform in 2 weeks. Motion control. Bluetooth connectivity. Delicate App experience.
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Non-Commercial Hardware Finalists

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

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The Digi-Gurdy: A MIDI Hurdy Gurdy

Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
The Digi-Gurdy is a low-cost MIDI Hurdy Gurdy with many tuning options and a detachable playable keybox for maximum portability, allowing practice anywhere.
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ProtoZOA

Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
ProtoZOA is a flexible prototyping tool for MIDI 2.0. Open source firmware provides MIDI 2.0 interfaces and functions for developers to use in their own hardware and software products.
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KnittedKeyboard

Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
Soft, stretchable, and deformable MIDI-KnittedKeyboard for intimate, organic, and expressive musical composition and performance
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Commercial Software Finalists

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

Fluid Chords

Commercial Software Products
Fluid Chords is an intelligent chord bending plug-in that allows you to bend from any chord to any chord.
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GeoShred 5.9

Commercial Software Products
GeoShred, an award-winning, fluidly expressive musical instrument with a performance surface that uses MIDI/MPE to control expressive physics-based models of musical instruments.
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Animoog Z

Commercial Software Products
Animoog Z is an inspiring 16-voice polyphonic synthesizer that invites you to explore new concepts of multidimensional sound design and performance.
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Non-Commercial Software Finalists

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

MusiKraken

Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
MusiKraken is a modular MIDI construction kit for mobile devices. You can combine camera, touch, motion sensors and microphone input with effects to make music.
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PhotoSynth > InterFACE

Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
Instant Musical Superpowers! The smile powered synthesizer - an augmented reality musical instrument played completely with your face!
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DAWn Audio

Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
DAWn Audio allows artists anywhere in the world to work together live, even if they're using different DAWs. With our middleware approach, we've created a "DAW-network" by utilizing MIDI and audio streaming to replicate in person co-creation.
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Artistic/Visual Project Finalists

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Artistic/Visual Project or Installation
Tapis Magique is a knitted interactive carpet that generates 3D sensor data based on body locations and gestures and drives an immersive sonic environment in real-time.
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Synthesizer Live MIDI Art

Artistic/Visual Project or Installation
An original MIDI Art composition performed and recorded live in the piano roll
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Leaf Secrets

Artistic/Visual Project or Installation
Leaf Secrets is an immersive experience that connects people and nature, using plant biodata to trigger sound, light, and imagery.
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Meet The MIDI Innovation Award 2022 Judges

John Kao

Helen Leigh

Craig Anderton

Kate Stone

Yuri Suzuki

Michele Darling

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The MIDI Innovation Awards Founders

The Music Hackspace’s mission is to become the largest platform for learning music technologies. We are passionate about helping musicians develop their programming skills, host workshops led by world experts and enable the community to share knowledge and practices.

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Founded in 1901, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is the not-for-profit association with a mission to strengthen the $17 billion music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music.

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The MIDI Association is the non-profit community for both the companies who develop new MIDI specifications and products and the people that create music and art with MIDI. The MIDI.org website is the central repository of information about anything related to MIDI technology, from classic legacy gear to the next- gen MIDI protocols coming soon.

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