welcome to the Stanford Laptop Orchestra Ge Wang Spring 2008 Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) | Department of Music Stanford University 1 2 3 (What isnt a laptop orchestra, for us?) laptop != instrument many laptops != orchestra here != means not automatically an 4 Laptop Orchestras (PLOrk, MoPhO, SLOrk, ) 6 9 10 Voice Oriented Melodica Interface Device VOMID 11 12 13 PLOrk, SLOrk, and LOL PLOrk: Dan Trueman, Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, and Ge Wang Instantiated in Fall 2005 Group of 15+ meta-instruments for making electronic chamber music ChucK: a primary platform for composition, performance (40+ pieces premiered), and teaching (synthesis, analysis, programming, prototyping, instrument building, performance) Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Premiering NOW! Laptop Orchestra of the Left coast (LOL) Plork-setup-3 rack stage Plork-setup-1 18 Challenges How to make instruments? that engage the performer? that engage the audience? What types of sounds? How to teach it? How to compose for it? How to organize a dozen players in this context? How to conduct? gamelan-1 video gamelan-2 gamelan-3 non-specific otf1 murphy ccr mouse ccr board FIGURE: Interface collage FIGURE: laptop picture buttons 2D position sensor microphone camera motion & tilt sensor light sensor network The result: Small Musically Expressive Laptop Toolkit S.M.E.L.T. FIGURE: composer FIGURE: portable and ad hoc FIGURE: contexts clix CliX (2006) 35 36 37 Pbs-1 38 Pbs-2 39 Mobile Phone Orchestra Whats next? 41 Stanford Laptop Orchestra (us => now;) 42 ChucK in SLOrk Platform for Instrument design Sound synthesis Composition Performance Space heating Some rules of ChucKing Don t panic When some goes wrong, always first suspect ChucK 43 Our SLOrk Classroom not about programming! (though we ll learn and do a lot of it) making new, cool music with computers as an ensemble at the intersection of music, sound, computer science, composing for laptop orchestra computer-mediated instrument design programming sound synthesis / analysis crafting performances performing! 44 The SLOrk Station 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 + 53 54 power 55 more stuff (ensemble-wide) 56 wireless Switch 57 power conditioner 58 59 60 61 more coming soon 62 Pre-Laptop Orchestra 63 whats next? 64 Acknowledgements 2008 Pre-Laptop Orchestra Chryssie Nanou Carr Wilkerson Sasha Leitman Jay Kadis Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Chris Chafe Julius Smith Jonathan Berger Jonathan Abel Mark Applebaum Tricia Schroeter CCRMA Music Department H&S Deans Office Stanford! Princeton! Dan Trueman Perry Cook Scott Smallwood Rebecca Fiebrink Noah Thorpe Bay Area Music Tech. Group 65rk/