PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra

I just sat down to read this month's issue of Wired and imagine my delight when I read a little blurb about PLOrk (also known as the Princeton Laptop Orchestra). PLOrk consists of 15 students that each have a Powerbook hooked up to a speaker and an array of wacky input devices. The students use the laptops and input devices to make music (which you can listen to here. I like 'On the Floor'.).

I have listened to some of the tracks and they are... interesting.

If you're in the Princeton area PLOrk is having a concert on April 4th, so check out the details and support your local college aged musical Mac users.

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Source: http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/

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spencer

The concert is at Richardson Auditorium, on the Princeton campus. Zakir Hussain, a master tabla (indian drum) player, will also be performing on a piece with the orchestra...

March 28 2006 at 6:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Found it.

http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=16299907&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=346950&rfi=8

March 22 2006 at 5:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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I actually live about 15 min from the campus. I saw this in the Princeton Packet (the local newspaper) on the front page a week or so ago. I'll dig around and see if I can find the original article.

If I remember correctly, the article photo showed users with Powerbooks, but the article discussed more of the musical aspect rather than the technology involved. I may have to check out the concert. Any idea where it's located? Probably McCarter (it's the local theater).

March 22 2006 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Oliver

PLORK can also be used to describe a girl with a "Prachtige Lichaam, Onwijs Rot Kop" (sp?), which translates into English as "wonderful body, unbelievably ugly face". There are a lot of those in Holland.

FYI.

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