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May 15, 2008

Student Laptop Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall

Princeton University’s Princeton Laptop Orchestra—a.k.a. PLOrk—recently debuted at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.

Eight students in the orchestra, an ensemble of blooping, beeping, and synthesizing “computer-based musical meta-instruments,” joined the American Composers Orchestra. The performance was part of the Playing it UNsafe program, a laboratory for new types of orchestral music.

PLOrk was recently awarded a $238,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Check out a video of their rehearsal:

—Catherine Rampell

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1. I was at the concert. PLORC was one of several highlights.

   They were terrific.

   — Arthur Kaye    May 16, 09:09 AM    #

2. This is a very innovative way to evolve music and make it another mode through which human beings can express themselves.

   — Marie Nubia-Feliciano, M.S.    May 16, 01:53 PM    #

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