1. welcome to the Stanford Laptop Orchestra Ge Wang Spring 2008 Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) | Department of Music Stanford University

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4. 3 (What isn’t a laptop orchestra, for us?) laptop != instrument many laptops != orchestra here != means “not automatically an”

5. 4 Laptop Orchestras (PLOrk, MoPhO, SLOrk, …)

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11. 10 Voice Oriented Melodica Interface Device VOMID

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14. 13 PLOrk, SLOrk, and LOL PLOrk: Dan Trueman, Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, and Ge Wang Instantiated in Fall 2005 Group of 15+ “meta-instruments” for making “electronic chamber music” ChucK: a primary platform for composition, performance (40+ pieces premiered), and teaching (synthesis, analysis, programming, prototyping, instrument building, performance) Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Premiering NOW! Laptop Orchestra of the Left coast (LOL)

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16. rack

17. stage

18. Plork-setup-1

19. 18 Challenges How to make instruments? –that engage the performer? –that engage the audience? What types of sounds? How to teach it? How to compose for it? How to organize a dozen players in this context? How to conduct?

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28. ccr board

29. FIGURE: Interface collage

30. FIGURE: laptop picture buttons 2D position sensor microphone camera motion & tilt sensor light sensor network

31. The result: Small Musically Expressive Laptop Toolkit S.M.E.L.T.

32. FIGURE: composer

33. FIGURE: portable and ad hoc

34. FIGURE: contexts

35. clix CliX (2006)

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38. 37 Pbs-1

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40. 39 Mobile Phone Orchestra

41. What’s next?

42. 41 Stanford Laptop Orchestra (us => now;)

43. 42 ChucK in SLOrk Platform for … –Instrument design –Sound synthesis –Composition –Performance –Space heating Some rules of ChucKing –Don ’ t panic –When some goes wrong, always first suspect ChucK

44. 43 Our SLOrk Classroom not about programming! –(though we ’ ll learn and do a lot of it) making new, cool music with computers as an ensemble at the intersection of music, sound, computer science, –composing for laptop orchestra –computer-mediated instrument design –programming –sound synthesis / analysis –crafting performances –performing!

45. 44 The SLOrk Station

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55. 54 power

56. 55 more stuff (ensemble-wide)

57. 56 wireless Switch

58. 57 power conditioner

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62. 61 more coming soon…

63. 62 Pre-Laptop Orchestra…

64. 63 what’s next?

65. 64 Acknowledgements 2008 Pre-Laptop Orchestra Chryssie Nanou Carr Wilkerson Sasha Leitman Jay Kadis Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Chris Chafe Julius Smith Jonathan Berger Jonathan Abel Mark Applebaum Tricia Schroeter CCRMA Music Department H&S Dean’s Office Stanford! Princeton! Dan Trueman Perry Cook Scott Smallwood Rebecca Fiebrink Noah Thorpe Bay Area Music Tech. Group

66. 65 http://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/slo rk/ http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/