Stanford Laptop Orchestra

Move over violins ... apples are taking the stage.

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[edmondoman]

Okay this is just embarrassing to watch, for music, it doesn't sound very musical, more like computer noise. And what do they mean, new sounds that haven't been done before? I can make n e of those noises with a synth. No one wants to go against the grain and point out the OBVIOUS, it sounds terrible, looks stupid, and is just an attempt to be avant-guard. People have been making music with computers for years, just in a more efficient completely average way. Sad attempt at notoriety

[hmera99]

Personally I'm pleased to see innovation in the arts, but this is a long way from an organized orchestra able to perform a true pice of music. Call me old fashioned, but not all things analog need to be turned into digital.

Please reply.-

PS: seriousness aside... this is what happens when games like guitar hero becomes a smash hit!

[lovelplants]

nice orchestra.

[pauljs75]

With the right group, something like this could be fun.

Here's how I'd do it:

Download LMMS (free), get your self some decent VST-intruments (possibly free as well - DSK Music has some nice ones to start with), and see if you can get an inexpensive portable amplifier (likely one with an optical input if you laptop has optical audio out - no risk of ground-loop problems that way.) USB MIDI stuff is optional... Other than the hardware, it's rather cheap to get started on something like this.

[randmnumber]

it has so much potential but it seems so wasted, and for what reason i dont know. The music is very poor.

[gotztago]

I think I heard a little bit of In C by Terry Riley @ 0:48 :D

[orchdork775]

i have this album on itunes :D

[TheHawkdaddy]

Because I want to pay 60 bucks to watch hipsters press buttons

[MaghoxFr]

I expected this to be really cool but I don't see this as progress in any way musically, I think it's harder to program than to play those sounds. Maybe t his is helpful to develop some kind of new computer music enviroment, I don't know, but for watch it's not good. Electronic music has been around for a long time, I bas my whole music setup on software, so using only a laptop I could also play but this wasn't good. That's probably the future of music indeed, it gets worse year by year.

[Trunks7j]

I agree. I love electronic music, but stuff going on like this is really very uninteresting and unmusical :)

[jesemus33]

satinhooks said ¨´i'm looking for one of these clips of 'laptop orchestras' to be awesome, but it's boring as fuck. ´´

THATS RIGHT

[satinhooks]

how much does this guy get paid to teach?

a lack of imagination should get anyone removed from a creative teaching position.

way to prove higher education wrong, Princeton & Stanford.

what a joke.

isn't music about sound results? this is just silly.

"like, create something new that had never been done before"...

say whaaaaaaat?

so-called limitless possibilities sounds VERY limited in this context.