you can also use power search to find it as: "computer human interaction seminar and choose stanford as the institution. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs
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
