Music 154 | Spring 2008

Music 154 | spring 2008
Composing, Coding, and Performance with Laptop Orchestra
Ge Wang, with Juan Cristobal Cerrillo (TA)

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class: T 5:30-8:30pm
location: CCRMA Stage (the Knoll)
slorkshop: CCRMA Listening Room (where stations will be set up when not in class)
prerequisite: by instructor's permission

course summary:

This course explores composing and coding for, and performance with, laptop orchestra. This is the first classroom/ensemble instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). Topics and activities will include issues of composing for laptop orchestras, sound synthesis, programming, instrument design, live performances.

assignments:

project #0: Finish Building SLOrk
2008.4.1 to 2008.4.8, midnight
(success! check out journal entry)
project #1: Survive the SLOrk Gauntlet
2008.4.25 to 2008.5.4, through here, here, here, here, and here
(success! also see press coverage)
project #2: Single Hemi Fun + S.S.S.S.
due: 2008.5.2, 11:59pm (milestone A) and 2008.5.12, 11:59pm (milestone B)
project #3: SLOrtastic performances
events: here and/or here

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