The breakthrough in computer-based orchestras occurred at Princeton University in 2005. Bukvic’s friend and colleague Dan Truman, upon deciding that technology had finally reached the necessary ...

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Anyone who's still bleating on about the medium being the message is still living in the sixties. That's not to say that there isn't a future for laptop orchestras. I'm sure there is. But it depends ...

Fifteen people dressed in black kneel before a glowing Apple laptop on an altar-like stand. A petite woman in an iridescent purple tunic stands facing the group, hands spread wide. She makes a flowing ...

I couldn't possibly pass this one up. I received a notice today about the debut performance Friday of Virginia Tech's Linux Laptop Orchestra — an ensemble that plays their music using laptops, ...

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a six-person ensemble that performs music via computers. The performers sit on the floor with computers on their laps, with six-sided speakers next to them. They play ...

Every season at your local concert hall, the drill is the same: Musicians tune up their instruments, a conductor walks onstage, taps a baton, and works of past compositional masters spring to life.

We live in an age where the limits of technology are almost nonexistent. The combination of the constant progression of electronic devices and the expanding creativity of human minds has presented our ...

No one will ever confuse Tokyo's Laptop Orchestra with the Duke Ellington or Count Basie orchestras. Swing will not be the thing at the Kennedy Center's Theater Lab when the delicate sounds of ...

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Here are many more details, courtesy of Virginia Tech. Linux Laptop Orchestra — L2Ork — gives debut performance at Virginia Tech BLACKSBURG, Va., Dec. 2, 2009 — December traditionally marks a time for ...