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Stanford's Laptop Orchestra in an online performance with China

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Helen
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slork-lr-hemi.jpgStanford’s laptop orchestra, with their Mac books programmed to create sound, notes, and music, performed last Tuesday night, April 29th, at Stanford University in a musical collaboration with China. Assistant Professor Ge Wang, brought the idea of a laptop orchestra to Stanford this year. Previously a graduate student at Princeton, where the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) was founded, Professor Wang developed a new music programming language called ChucK, which has been used extensively by PLOrk. The language allows the performers to develop new code in performance.

Stanford’s orchestra is comprised of 20 laptop stations, each with a laptop and speaker array. Each speaker array has 6 channels of sound. As Wang says, “You put that together, that’s 120 channels of sound, plus 4 subwoofers for low energy.” The Stanford performance on April 29, 2008 was a first of its kind for laptop orchestras. Musicians from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) connected with musicians 6,000 miles away in Beijing to perform - in real time via a webcast - a program that celebrated music, technology, and international collaboration, and marked the premiere of the all-new Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). Also on the program was guest composer and painter Luo Jingjing, who collaborated with the laptop orchestra to create a new improvisational work on site.

For more information on SLOrk, see http://slork.stanford.edu/
For more information on PLOrk, see http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/
Listen to PLOrk at: http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/plork/

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