Stanford Laptop Orchestra

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

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

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.

it doesn't sound like anything.

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

nice idea. lame results.

Edgar varese for example was a thousand miles better than this!!!!!

MAC attack!!!

I saw the Princeton Laptop Orchestra live with Matmos, and it was absolutely amazing and beautiful. The demonstrations in this video do it no justice, as their full compositions are not fiddling on a keyboard, there is a real direction and orchestration to it.

How do you define a "real" musical instrument?

i agree what separates a real instrument from a fake instrument? what makes these any less real then say a guitar or a violin? what makes it any less elegant? they are just innovative. D0ug16 i know you already by reading your comment. hmm, you go to or did go to a musical college, youve played music all your life, and yuor in the upper class. you live alone other then the buddies in your wine club. Those who are resistent to change, cant make it in our constantly metamorphisizing world.

Agreed even Today weve got iphones with musical Instrument applications that create about the same as a so called "Real instrument" in D0ug16's word