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Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 5, 2008 - 5:49am.
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A reblog of Perry Cook's account of a recent performance of the PLOrk, a DML Competition winner, at Carnegie Hall. This is a shout-out to Perry and Dan and the Princeton team: CONGRATULATIONS:

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PLOrk Does Carnegie Hall, by Perry Cook

Once we found out that we had won the MacArthur DML grant, we
pretty much immediately set out to design the speaker systems we
described in our proposal. As our project title, "Mobile Music Laboratory,"
implies, the main hardware goal is to make a large number of truly portable
multi-channel audio systems, including the audio interface, amplifiers,
and speakers all in one portable case. We worked really hard designing
and specifying the cases, buying all the components, and building them
along with a number of the PLOrk-expert graduate students. We were
(just barely) able to make eight new "DeLoreans" (so named because the
cases are made of brushed aluminum) in time for the premiere of Dan's
"Silicon/Carbon: An Anti-Concerto Grosso" with the American Composer's
Orchestra in Carnegie Hall on April 27th. Check out some images of the
speakers, and half of our band on stage with the ACO in Carnegie Hall,
along with a favorable review from the New York Times. Thanks MacArthur
Foundation! Wait until you see what we can do with dozens of these.
NY Times Review


 

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TLOrk? DLOrk?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 6, 2008 - 12:52am.
Actually, we should bring an Ork to the Triangle! Ge Wang, who is now at Stanford and is in charge of the SLOrk there, has been talking to Victoria Szabo in ISIS about a DLOrk. Or maybe we need a TLOrk--a Triangle Laptop Orchestra. If you're interested, we should talk to composer/musician/Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth at Duke as Ge Wang was his undergrad student here and Scott helped us create ISIS partly with Ge and others like Ge in mind. The worlds of computation and the arts. Feel free to write Victoria or Ge if you are interested.
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That is an excellent idea,

Submitted by Steve Burnett on May 8, 2008 - 8:43am.
That is an excellent idea, thank you! Hmm. I know others who might well be interested in participating.
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The speakers look similar to

Submitted by Steve Burnett on May 5, 2008 - 5:04pm.
The speakers look similar to the Hemisphere speaker cabinet, although the Hemisphere is solely a set of speakers while the "DeLoreans" shown in the article are significantly different by "including the audio interface, amplifiers, and speakers all in one portable case." These new all-in-one units look amazing, I wish I had one :). My congratulations to everyone involved in this.
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