Winners of the Second Annual MIDI Awards Announced

The MIDI Association, in collaboration with NAMM and Music Hackspace, are proud to announce the winners of the second annual MIDI Innovation Awards. The finalist products were displayed at The 2022 NAMM Show in June, allowing attendees of the show to gain hands on experience with the groundbreaking innovations.

The MIDI Innovation Awards jury awarded innovators in five categories, with the winners splitting a share of over $10,000 worth of prizes.

Category Winners

Artistic Installations

• Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet (Irmandy Wicaksono)
• Synthesizer Live MIDI Art (Gil Assayas)
• Leaf Secrets (Rich Thomsen)

Software Prototypes

• MusiKraken (Markus Ruh)
• PhotoSynth > Interface (Zenon Olenski)
• DAWn Audio (Diego Pinzon)

Hardware Prototypes

• The Digi-Gurdy: A MIDI Hurdy Gurdy (John Dingley)
• ProtoZOA (AmeNote Inc)
• Knitted Keyboard (Irmandy Wicaksono)

Commercial Software

• Fluid Chords (Krishna Chetan)
• GeoShred 5.9 (Pat Scandalis)
• Animoog Z (Moog)

Commercial Hardware

• SOMI-1 (Instruments of things)
• WIDI Core (CME)
• Wind Synthesizer R1 (Robkoo)

Watch the awards ceremony livestream and learn more about the winners and judging panel.