Introducing The Princeton LaptopOrchestra

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The M1710 supercedes the Dell XPS M170, and is at the vanguard of gaming technology. Boasting 4 GB of RAM, a blazing dual core processor, and the nVidia Go 7900 GTX chip, it should suit every gamer's need, but at what cost to the wallet?

Image of the laptop orchestraWhat will crazycollege kids do next? First, there was that old "see how manytoga wearers we can cram in a phone booth" trick. Next came the"let's see how many of us puke if we do a shot of beer everyminute for 100 minutes" trick. The latest trick? Let's see if wecan compose music worthy of Brahms with students and a bunch oflaptops. Officially, it's called the Princeton LaptopOrchestra, PLOrk for short. There are at least 15 dorks inPLOrk at last count. And their goal is to explore the horizons ofcreating sounds with notebooks, speakers and electronic music devices.
Kidding aside, PLOrk has been around just a year, and thanks partly to a new audio programming language (Chuck) created by student Ge Wang, the innovative concept is already garnering serious attention fromthe press and real musicians. So they must be on to something. Professionalcomposers and musos are creating laptop music forand with PLOrk, the likes of tabla master Zakir Mussain and BradGarton, the director of Columbia University's computer musiccenter.

PLOrk has even gotten press in techie print journals like Wiredmagazine. The orchestra has had performances, too, first in Aprilon the Princeton campus. In May, they hit the road and playedDartmouth College. Heck, next, they'll have groupies. I have mynew Macbook, CasioCTK-691, and Dire Straitsesque pink neon headband - where do Isign up?

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  • By: tadjeddine Nov 01, 2008 3:30 PM

    toshiba l350 it's bast laptoupical

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