New Music on the Block was Block M Records' 2006 competition of original music composed, performed, recorded and produced by University of Michigan (U-M) students. The winners were invited to perform their music during two nights of celebration in the Duderstadt Center's Video Studio last October. Their work is currently being recorded in the newly renovated Audio Studio, and will soon be released on the Block M Records (BMR) label and distributed through the iTunes Music Store. Stay tuned for announcements regarding that release!

The winners of the 2006 New Music on the Block Competition include:

• Ajay Anand (Ross School of Business, Business Administration), Lehra Ke Chal • Michelle Chamuel (School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Performing Arts Technology-Visual Arts)/Robert Lester (School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Performing Arts Technology-Music), My Dear Disco • Andrew Haefner (School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Jazz Studies), Getting It Out • Devin Kerr (School of Music, Theatre & DancePerforming Arts Technology-Engineering), Fashion’s Latest • Karl Pestka (School of Music, Theatre & DancePerforming Arts Technology-Sonic Arts & Composition), A Multitude of Happenings • Patrick Prouty (School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation Studies), South-West • Ashley Statfeld (School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Performing Arts Technology-Sonic Arts), Walk On By • Jack Stratton (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), Facebook Boogie

A panel of three judges selected winners representing a variety of musical genres out of fifty-six individual submissions that were submitted by twenty-one groups and individuals.

Special thanks, again, to this year's judges: Erik Santos (Associate Professor of Music [Composition], School of Music, Theatre & Dance); architectural acoustician, John Storyk (Partner/Co-founder, Walters-Storyk Design Group); John Merlin Williams (Director, The James and Anne Duderstadt Center and Executive Producer, Digital Media Commons).

Karl Pestka	Patrick Prouty	Michelle Chamuel & Robert Lester	Jack Stratton	Andrew Haefner

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