Princeton University’s Princeton Laptop Orchestra—a.k.a. PLOrk—recently debuted at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.
Eight students in the orchestra, an ensemble of blooping, beeping, and synthesizing “computer-based musical meta-instruments,” joined the American Composers Orchestra. The performance was part of the Playing it UNsafe program, a laboratory for new types of orchestral music.
PLOrk was recently awarded a $238,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Check out a video of their rehearsal:
—Catherine Rampell