Listen to the subversive plorkers
Audio for the recent Plork Concert is now online ... ten pieces of live computer music performed by the Princeton Laptop Orchestera. Here's the description of one piece ... The Plork Tree, from the program notes:
This piece is a quasi-improvisation based on a network tree. Locked to a common
pulse, the plork members control a group texture by inheriting information from a
network neighbor, and then making slight modifications to that information, which
includes pitches, timbres, and text messages, which are then all sent on to
another network neighbor, eventually feeding back through the tree. Ripples of
data are sent through the network by the conductor, who defines the basic
structure of the texture, but only has marginal control, given the subversive
nature of most plorkers.