New ZOOZbeat Birth Traced to 10-Year-Old MIT Media Labs PhD Thesis
Posted: November 24th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: ZOOZbeat - News | Tags: "GA Tech Center for Music Technology", "Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology", "Georgia Tech Venture Lab", "Gil Weinberg", iPhone, iPod, MIT, ZooZBeat, ZOOZmobile | No Comments »
While November 7, 2009 officially marked the official 1-year anniversary of ZOOZbeat, we trace our beginning back ten years to the MIT Media Labs PhD thesis of ZOOZ Mobile, Inc. (parent company of the new ZOOZbeat and ZOOZbeat Lite) Founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Gil Weinberg.
In his thesis, Gil envisioned Beatbugs that would allow you to express yourself musically using gestures or movements with a hand held device; even if you are not musically inclined.
Ten years ago, Beatbugs would have cost $600 to manufacture.
Beatbugs
It was only when Gil saw the first SmartPhone that he realized he could bring his thesis to life as software. A year ago, Gil said: “My research focuses on developing algorithms that would allow musical instruments to analyze and interpret a player’s intentions” as quoted in the Georgia Tech Digital Lounge. Georgia Tech Venture Lab supported the commercialization of ZOOZbeat.
Added Gil: “With [ZOOZbeat], you don’t have to … know a lot of music theory to become musically creative. You can just use your own expressive, intuitive gestures to create music that you can relate.”
Three of Gil’s top graduate students at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (which Gil also founded) joined the ZOOZ Mobile (ZOOZbeat) full-time. And, today, you are able to reCreate music with ZOOZbeat ($0.99 until 12/31/09: $2.99 effective 1/1/10) and ZOOZbeat Lite (free) on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
New ZOOZbeat Artists
By January 31, 2009, we anticipate that the new ZOOZbeat will have at least 33 songs or collections (albums) of songs from 15 Artists that you can either buy or redeem promo codes. Plus, we’re in discussions with many indie and major labels to add additional Artists.
Seshiria And Strato999
A shout-out to ZOOZbeat Musicians Cecilia “Seshiria” Diaz and John “strato999” Sheridan for showing us what’s possible with ZOOZbeat. Cecilia’s provided ZOOZbeat Musician with tips in the first issue of ZOOZbeat Update. John provides tip in the next edition of the ZOOZbeat Update. [John was interviewed about ZOOZbeat by CNN.com in October.]
And this …
Stay tuned for lots of exciting news in the months and years ahead as we mash up music, mobile and motion to create a new and unique interactive music experience for you using ZOOZbeat: your Music reCreation Studio.
If you have ZOOZbeat Lite, please consider upgrading to the new ZOOZbeat for an extended music reCreation experience. We have extended the introductory price of $0.99 through 12/31/09 because thousands and thousands purchased the new ZOOZbeat app when it was official re-launched on October 14th. ($2.99 effective 1/1/10).
Happy Thanksgiving from the ZOOZbeat team.
