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Princeton Laptop Orchestra premieres, April 4
Posted March 30, 2006; 10:22 p.m.
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Special guest performers will be the New York City-based quartet So
Percussion, accordion legend Pauline Oliveros and tabla virtuoso Zakir
Hussain.
Directed by Dan Trueman, assistant professor of music, and Perry Cook,
associate professor of computer science, PLOrk is a new ensemble of 15
musicians, each using a laptop computer and a variety of control
devices to produce music through a six-channel hemispherical speaker.
PLOrk, which is featured in the April issue of Wired Magazine, has been
the basis for a freshman seminar last fall and a senior/graduate
seminar this semester.
This premiere concert will include new music by computer-music pioneer
Paul Lansky, professor of music at Princeton. PLOrk also will play
works by Trueman, Cook, Brad Garton, Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, Scott
Smallwood, Seth Cluett and Ge Wang.
PLOrk's guest performers are cutting-edge figures in the music world.
The New York Times has called So Percussion "brilliant" and
"consistently impressive." Oliveros is considered a key figure in
electronic art music. Hussain, a visiting professor at Princeton this
year, is renowned for playing the classical tabla (Indian drums) and
regarded as a driving force behind the contemporary world-music
movement.
Tickets are $10 for the general public; $6 for students; and free for
Tiger Tickets holders. They are available through the Richardson box
office at (609) 258-5000 or online through University Ticketing.