Why a laptop orchestra?

Trueman, Dan

doi:10.1017/s135577180700180x

Cited by 53 publications

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“…The entire sensorimotor system, much of which is dedicated to the hand, is implemented following a hierarchical organisation with nuclei in the dorsal column, the brain stem, the midbrain, the cerebellum and ultimately several cortical regions. The considerable literature on the subject can be approached through recent books and surveys [10,51,67].…”

Section: Hand Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, pianos couple with the floor; hence, vibrations can reach the pianist's body through it and the seat. Piano vibrations have been carefully studied by researchers in musical acoustics, who measured them mainly at the strings or soundboard [51]. In contrast, keyboard vibrations as conveyed to the player have been less researched.…”

Section: Open-loop Experimentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Musical Haptics

2018

Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems

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Section: Hand Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Open-loop Experimentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Musical Haptics

2018

Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems

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“…In this manner, there is both a shared repertoire of practice-directed objects and a virtual space supporting opportunities for mutual engagement. More recently, laptop performance in academic contexts has gone through a process of formalisation in which performance practices have given rise to the 'live coding' (Figure 3) [12,11,28,48,46] and the 'laptop orchestra' (Figure 4) movements [17,41,47]. The sub-communities of live coding and laptop orchestras can be deemed proper CoPs.…”

Section: Case Studies: Interactive Music Communities Within Nimementioning

confidence: 99%

2015: Fourteen Years of NIME: The Value and Meaning of ‘Community’ in Interactive Music Research

Marquez-Borbon

Stapleton

2017

A NIME Reader

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This paper examines the notion of community as commonly employed within NIME discourses. Our aim is to clarify and define the term through the community of practice framework. We argue that through its formal use and application, the notion of community becomes a significant space for the examination of emergent musical practices that could otherwise be overlooked. This paper defines community of practice, as originally developed in the social sciences by Lave and Wegener, and applies it within the NIME context through the examination of existing communities of practice such as the laptop performance community, laptop orchestras, as well as the Satellite CCRMA and Patchblocks communities.

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“…Cloud Orchestras share many of the same problems and difficulties as laptop orchestras [16,15]. Laptop orchestras are composed of laptop synthesizer users who are connected together over OpenSound Control or jack.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tech report: Orchestrating your cloud orchestra: Model driven development of cloud deployment and orchestration for distributed computer music instruments

Hindle

2015

Preprint

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Cloud computing potentially ushers in a new era of computer music performance with exceptionally large computer music instruments consisting of 10s to 100s of virtual machines called a Cloud Orchestra. Cloud computing allows for the rapid provisioning of resources, but to deploy such a complicated and interconnected network of software synthesizers in the cloud requires a lot of manual work, system administration knowledge, and devops (developer-sysop) skills. This is a barrier to computer musicians whose goal is to produce and perform music, and not to sysadmin 100s of computers. This work discusses the issues facing cloud orchestra deployment and offers an abstract solution and a concrete implementation. The abstract solution is generate cloud orchestra deployment plans by allowing computer musicians to model their network of synthesizers and to describe their resources. A model optimizer will compute near-optimal deployment plans to synchronize, deploy, and orchestrate the start-up of a complex network of synthesizers deployed to many computers. This model driven development approach frees computer musicians from much of the hassle of deployment and allocation. Computer musicians can focus on the configuration of musical components and leave the resource allocation up to the modelling software to optimize.

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Why a laptop orchestra?

Cited by 53 publications

References 22 publications

Musical Haptics

Musical Haptics

2015: Fourteen Years of NIME: The Value and Meaning of ‘Community’ in Interactive Music Research

Tech report: Orchestrating your cloud orchestra: Model driven development of cloud deployment and orchestration for distributed computer music instruments

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