Scott


This performance was great ... a Japanese/Chinese Zen/Chan MacBook blue-light glowing vision in Bing Auditorium, with an orange string used by each of all 12 MacBook players to modulate the sound of their computer instruments. (And I think the director of this orchestra is Chinese or Chinese American or Japanese or Japanese American and with long hair). Echoes of a Steve Jobs' Apple vision throughout the performance, with Google making some appearances on the big screen for visuals. The performance began with two MacBook players playing their MacBooks together as accordions - with orange screens - a mazurka, I think ... cool ...

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As part of this performance in the new, very beautiful Bing concert hall, the MoPho - the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra - http://mopho.stanford.edu - also came up on the big screen, as did some amazing Mac Computer graphics.

Here's the
iPhone_as_musical_instrument wiki subject at World University and School ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_as_musical_instrument


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This orchestra's repertory is becoming "polished" I think and there's an amazing range of potential new sounds and new ways of composing music (also now quite developed after a few decades)

And here's the wiki subject at World University and School ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music

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In thinking how to compose {computer} music for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, building on what already works for me, I didn't get "there" yesterday evening with the computer compositions I heard, yet would like to explore these possibilities composing-wise.

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition

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So I turned on the Grateful Dead's Scarlet Begonias / Fire on the Mountain ... I can return to Not Fade Away as well as live concerts particularly from the 1970s for this ... with some regularity

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In what ways are musical instruments and musicians already akin to computers?

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Here are some SLOrk performances from previous years ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chA-4GRCb-I


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPjWrWhfM-8





Met with Xiangyan Liu re China WUaS ...




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Also heard this and connected with the Stanford bookstore about doing something similar ... This talk was a good example re my upcoming Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography book talks ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ...