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I was lucky to catch this performance live. They were on stage right before I was this year. The Stanford Laptop Orchestra, or SLOrk, is just amazing to watch.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra is a large-scale, computer-mediated ensemble that explores cutting-edge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts. This unique ensemble comprises more than 20 laptops, human performers, controllers, and custom multi-channel speaker arrays designed to provide each computer meta-instrument with its own identity and presence. The orchestra fuses a powerful sea of sound with the immediacy of human music-making, capturing the irreplaceable energy of a live ensemble performance as well as its sonic intimacy and grandeur. At the same time, it leverages the computer’s precision, possibilities for new sounds, and potential for fantastical automation to provide a boundary-less sonic canvas on which to experiment with, create, and perform music.

Just watch and listen – and decide for yourself how high this goes on the awesome factor scale.

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