World Premier - PLOrk
If you live in the Princeton NJ area, be sure to head to the Taplin Auditorium tonight (Sunday January 22) for the world premier of PLOrk, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra. PLOrk consists of about 15 or so computer musicians with laptops that perform live music. Each musician in PLOrk is outfitted with a rather hefty set of hardware that becomes their musical instrument. This 'instrument' includes music synth hardware, amplifiers, speakers, sensors (tip, tilt, pressure, force, light and IR), keyboard controllers, microphones, along with a powerbook. (Checkout all of the hardware details). For software each instrument is outfitted with max/msp ahd ChucK. The cool think about ChucK is that it encourages 'performance coding', writing code while you are performing music. What Fun! With ChucK, we programmers can all be rockstars.
