Listen online to an orchestra of laptops

"It's much more than I bargained for," says Dan Trueman, who created the orchestra with fellow college professor Perry Cook. "I'm delighted and terrified by the level of interest."
For Trueman, the project began several years ago when he created his own electronic instrument, a combination of a violin and a theremin that reacted to his bowing movements across a spherical speaker. "It was quite a trip to play," he says. "The question was, what kind of music could we make if we had 15 or more of these kinds of instruments?"

The orchestra's sound is equally customised - it is theoretically possible, says Trueman, to play Beethoven or Mozart, but why bother when a traditional orchestra can do that already? Isn't it more rewarding, he suggests, to create a symphony from chirruping crickets, thunder and fruit machines?
· Listen to PLOrk at: plork.cs.princeton.edu/listen/debut/ via downloads or streaming.
From today's Guardian
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