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Why a laptop orchestra?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2007

Dan Trueman
Dan Trueman
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Music Department, Woolworth Center, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA email: dan@music.princeton.edu
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Abstract

In 2005, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), an ensemble of fifteen laptop-based meta-instruments, began its first season. In this article, the author explores the motivations for starting a laptop orchestra, both in musical and cultural terms, and some of the aesthetic, technical, and compositional issues that face those interested in working with such an ensemble.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 171 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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