"Laptop Orchestra points way to future"

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>the palm beach post has a thoughtful blog post today on the princeton laptop orchestra (plork), a self-described “ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments.” says NPR:</p>

<p>“The group has caused something of a sensation in academic circles and avant-garde musicians are queuing up to compose for them. They have their own wireless-network that can play anything from electropop to avant garde on instruments specially designed to interface with their laptops.” </p>

<p><a href=“Weekend America for Saturday, May 6 2006”>Weekend America for Saturday, May 6 2006;

<p>here’s the palm beach post piece:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/[/url]”>http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/stepanich/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>see also:</p>

<p><a href=“http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1742693,00.html[/url]”>Brainwaves | Classical music | The Guardian; (guardian)
<a href=“http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/images/nyt-2006.4.30.gif[/url]”>http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/images/nyt-2006.4.30.gif&lt;/a&gt; (times)</p>