Stanford Laptop Orchestra | History

We built the Stanford Laptop Orchestra at CCRMA, from laptops, IKEA salad bowls, amplifier kits, car speakers, meditationpillows, and much more during and since the Spring of 2008. SLOrk is part of a broader history of the laptop orchestra, the ongoing design of instruments, special speaker arrays, performance and composition, in instituations include Princeton (PLOrk), Stanford (SLOrk), and beyond).

An account of the rise of the laptop orchestra appeared in Ge Wang's 2018 photo-comic book, Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime. The section "The Birth and Rise of the Laptop Orchestra" is available in full:

"The Birth and Rise of the Laptop Orchestra" (PDF)
from Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime

(Additionally, check out an entry from a SLOrk marathon, and media coverage on SLOrk)

Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)



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