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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)
Maker Made Stage (Expo) , Sunday 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
| Location: Expo Green |
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) is a large-scale, computer-mediated ensemble that explores cutting-edge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts - while radically transforming both. Founded in 2008 by director Ge Wang and students, faculty, and staff at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), this unique ensemble comprises more than 20 laptops, human performers, controllers, and custom multi-channel speaker arrays designed to provide each computer meta-instrument with its own identity and presence. The orchestra fuses a powerful sea of sound with the immediacy of human music-making, capturing the irreplaceable energy of a live ensemble performance as well as its sonic intimacy and grandeur. At the same time, it leverages the computer's precision, possibilities for new sounds, and potential for fantastical automation to provide a boundary-less sonic canvas on which to experiment with, create, and perform music. Offstage, the ensemble serves as a one-of-a-kind learning environment that explores music, computer science, composition, and live performance in a naturally interdisciplinary way. (http://slork.stanford.edu)
Web site: http://slork.stanford.edu/
Topic(s): Engineering | Music
Tags: computer music laptop orchestra ccrma stanford
About the Maker(s)
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group A forum for computer music technology researchers, developers, and enthusiasts to come together for presentations of computer music techniques and technologies (all music genre outputs are welcome).
