Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) at Macworld

http://slork.stanford.edu/ - I was lucky to catch this performance live. They were on stage right before I was this year. Maybe I'll start a trend at http://geeks.pirillo.com/ soon?

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[scheffmusic]

sounds like the men's restroom!

[TechieTriumph16]

I see the conductor motioning for dynamics, yet I dont here any dynamics? or change in the sounds for that matter

[metabog]

In the computer music field we are sick of rehashing the same technology over and over. We've made hundreds of analog synth emulations and generic synthesizers and effects. We're trying to push it forward a bit and explore some different approaches to sound and music. A real orchestra will never make this sound or come close to creating this type of rhythm, and THAT is the goal. Yes, it sounds like droplets of water. Problem?

[metabog]

If you cannot hear the rhythm and intricacy of this piece, you need to rethink the way you approach music. You will not hear this in your music shop next to Katy Perry, and you don't have to. You have to actually listen to the texture, not wait for some message or feeling to come from it. I hate to sound like a snob, but yeah I guess this type of music isn't for everyone, but I myself found this very interesting, and I have no problem seeing the correlation between the conductor and the laptops.

[metabog]

@TechieTriumph16 He's not 'motioning' for dynamics, he's relaying other information such as filter cutoffs and pitches. I think a lot of people here are expecting something else from something called an "orchestra". If you listen properly you can hear there is structure and some amount of control, although I agree it could be a little more varied. The emphasis is on timbre, spectral content and rhythm, not on melody like in 'modern' mainstream music.

[pingsterdan]

This is high on my list of dumbest shit I have ever seen, and I've seen some dumb shit.

[crisiswhitelight]

Are all the good videos seriously of the people talking and to actually experience the orchestra we have to watch this pixelated stuff?

[allisonicarts]

@TechieTriumph16 I think he's motioning for pitch and rhythmic changes. When he gradually raised his hands up, the pitches rose to the top of the range. He also seems to be directing different patterns to different groups. Since the laptops each have their own speaker, I imaging that being in the audience you could hear the patterns change as they went across the stage.

[DoubleGauss]

Beethoven wrote all his symphonies, piano sonatas and string quartets... and Mozart wrote all his operas piano conertos and the rest with nothing more than pen, paper and their minds.

These no talent hack professors blow taxpayer money to mimic the sound of a leaking toilet and call it 'computer music'.

[DoubleGauss]

Modern "composers" : Long on technology. Short on talent.

[pandemicpwnsn00bs]

fail on part of the author of the piece, the composer, and the musicians. Really should practice your forms better people. So boring, monotonous, when the electronic pioneers were experimenting they sounded way better then this. SHame

[areufkingkiddingme]

what the fuck is this shit