May 18, 2010 - Atlanta, GA USA · ZOOZ Mobile has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant of $150,000 will support the development of an innovative music intelligence engine for a new line of ZOOZ music creativity apps.
“The NSF SBIR grant validates the quality of our research and the high prospect of commercialization of our efforts,” said ZOOZ Mobile Founder and CTO Dr. Gil Weinberg who is also the Founder and Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT). “We hope that the first phase of support will lead to great results and to the continuation of the NSF SBIR support, which can grow to mmore than $1 million in funding.”
The SBIR grant will be matched by additional funds from Georgia Research Alliance and Georgia Tech’s Venture Lab, who have supported ZOOZ Mobile in the past. ZOOZ Mobile is one of two spin-off companies that came from GTCMT. Various versions of ZOOZbeat apps have been downloaded more than 1.4 million times from the Apple iTunes App Store.
ZOOZ Mobile has partnered with brands such as Sprite and labels such as Universal Motown to deliver innovative music creativity and remixing apps, including ZOOZbeat Sprite and ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix apps. Our thanks to the NSF and GTCMT where more than 20 faculty members are involved in research and commercialization of innovative music technology.
You can now ZOOZ with three of the Jackson 5 mega-hit songs for $1.99.
“Our new ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix 3-Pack app - for just $1.99 - allows more people to remix beats, loops and samples from multi-platinum Jackson 5 songs: ABC, Dancing Machine and I Want You Back,” said ZOOZ Mobile, Inc. CEO and President Scott Geller.
“We continue to offer the ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix app for just $4.99 that includes beats, loops and samples from five Jackson 5 songs: ABC, Dancing Machine, I Want You Back, Mama’s Pearl and The Love You Save.”
Plus, when you remix Jackson 5 music with either ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix or ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix 3-Pack, you can enter our ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix Challenge Contest to win your share of $6,000 in cash and Jackson 5 swag. The Grand Prize is $1,500, plus a Jackson 5 Swagger Like Us wearable art “hoodie” sweatshirt, t-shirt and tote bag; and a premium 3-CD Michael Jackson Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises.
To enter the Contest, upload your remixed Jackson 5 song to ZOOZbeat.com between now and Tuesday, June 1, 2010 using the Save/Contest button on either ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix or ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix 3-Pack apps.
ZOOZbeat app (formerly $1.99: now free through Tuesday, June 29, 2010.) It’s our way of celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of the Apple iPhone on June 29th.
ZOOZbeat Sprite app (free and available through May 31, 2010) - ZOOZ Mobile teamed up with Spriteto launch the first iPhone app to be offered through the Sprite ‘Under the Cap’ promotion and features beats from eight hot Artists including Dallas Austin.
“The ad might read, ‘Percussionist wanted, preferably marimba player, for jazz-influenced band. Must be able to improvise, bob head and wear metal,” writes CNN Reporter Valerie Streit in her April 29, 2010 story. “And the perfect candidate? It may be Shimon, a marimba-playing robot that, despite having four arms, is remarkably human. It has a shiny aluminum-steel head that bobs with the music and acknowledges other people when they’re nearby.”
And, when the new ZOOZbeat app launched in October 2009, CNN Reporter John Sutter wrote: “The iPhone’s accelerometer, which allows users to control apps by titling the phone, makes the ZOOZbeat app possible, said [Dr.] Gil Weinberg, director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology and founder of ZOOZbeat.”
“The NSF SBIR grant validates the quality of our research and the high prospect of commercialization of our efforts,” said ZOOZ Mobile Founder and CTO Dr. Gil Weinberg who is also the Founder and Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT). “We hope that the first phase of support will lead to great results and to the continuation of the NSF SBIR support, which can grow to mmore than $1 million in funding.”
