“Princeton Student Laptop Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall” (news item)

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<p>[Wired</a> Campus: Student Laptop Orchestra Performs at Carnegie*Hall - Chronicle.com](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3005/student-laptop-orchestra-performs-at-carnegie-hall]Wired”>http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3005/student-laptop-orchestra-performs-at-carnegie-hall)</p>

<p>“Princeton University’s Princeton Laptop Orchestra—a.k.a. PLOrk—recently debuted at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.</p>

<p>“Eight students in the orchestra, an ensemble of blooping, beeping, and synthesizing “computer-based musical meta-instruments,” joined the American Composers Orchestra. The performance was part of the Playing it UNsafe program, a laboratory for new types of orchestral music. </p>

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<p>[YouTube</a> - Princeton Laptop Orchestra](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71j1xGvvfA]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71j1xGvvfA)</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra (Fox News)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Ymixm1xmw]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Ymixm1xmw)</p>

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<p>Cool. Does anyone know offhand about music opportunities at Princeton for non-music majors?</p>

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<p>^ I have the same question.</p>

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<p>LOL I just noticed this cause my son was in the Laptop Ensemble at Illinois. I thought it was a pretty strange idea but I see now UIUC is not alone in this. Those wacky CS students. :D</p>