Hi,
Scott posted an Apple Hot News item about Musical Macs:
Begin forwarded message:
Date: November 14, 2008 5:33:39 PM EST
Subject: Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs
Source: Apple Hot News
An ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians, the
Stanford Laptop Orchestra uses 20 MacBook computers to compose and
perform new music. “We tilt the notebook and use its built-in
accelerometer to expressively control sound. We use the trackpad
as
a kind of violin bow,” explains Ge Wang, SLOrk’s founder. ”You can
make some wild, diverse music with the MacBook.”
and Chris Blouch gave the address of a YouTube video on the musical
language used to run these laptops:
Stanford has a 90 minute presentation on how ChucK, the music
language running on the SLOrk laptops, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpk461T6l4
CB
This is also available as a downloadable video podcast at Stanford's
iTunes U podcast pages:
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1357108180.01501554053.1500077425?i=1398287337
Using the above link from Safari (or other browser) will put the
iTunes Store in the iTunes Sources Table and the HTML region of the
iTunes Store will point to the iTunes U page for Stanford's Human-
Computer Interaction Seminar. The episode on ChucK will automatically
be selected in the corresponding Songs Table. (Note: this takes up
about 246 MB).
Cheers,
Esther
