24 Oct
2009
24 Oct
'09
2:20 a.m.
The "What is L2ork?" link on their website has some more explanation.
The most succinct explanation is in their faq:
[quote]
What is L2Ork?
L2Ork stands for Virginia Tech DISIS Linux Laptop Orchestra, World’s
first orchestra of its kind built on Linux.
[/quote]
Though I agree that to those who've never heard of a laptop orchestra,
that may not be so illuminating. For that, the PLOrk (Princeton
Laptop Orchestra) site (http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/bio.html) has a
bit more of an explanation. Basically, the idea is to develop the
technologies (hardware + software), skills, repertoire, etc to enable
an ensemble of laptops/players to perform together, coordinating and
interacting with each other with both networking tech and
musician-type skills.
For generating sound, PLOrk (the first laptop orchestra) i believe
mainly uses ChucK (Ge Wang developed ChucK with Perry Cook at the
Princeton Sound Lab, the same group that started PLOrk). I saw
somewhere on the L2Ork site that they are starting out by using Pd.
It would be interesting to see more behind-the-scenes info on the
whole setup.
Basically the reason that there's all the stuff about hardware and
also linux is just that they are doing both -- setting up a bunch of
computers with linux audio tuned to their needs, and building a bunch
of hardware to go with it (e.g. the special speakers (each computer
has its own speaker unit).
-Alex
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Guru Prasad B. R. <prasadbrg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Robin wrote:
2009/10/23 <hollunder(a)gmx.at>at>:
I'm sorry, Ico, but I'd have to agree with Philipp on this. After
spending quite some time going through the links that you've sent us,
I'm still clueless about what L2Ork is.
Here's the problem: The videos are essentially about speakers, which are
hardware, but 1 of the 'L's in L2Ork stands for Linux, which is an OS.
What I'm interested in (and I assume others on this list, too) is, what
applications are used to generate the instrument sounds in Linux? Are
these existing applications? Samplers? Synths? Or have you come up with
something entirely new? Does it run on Jack? If so, how do you ensure
robustness? These are just the first few of the pressing questions which
remain unanswered after going through your links.
It's possible that all this info is there, but I've somehow missed it
(and so has Philipp). If so, I'd request you to take our limited
info-gleaning abilities into account while providing more detailed
information.
Wishing L2Ork all the best!
Cheers,
Guru
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:52:26 -0400
"Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico(a)vt.edu> wrote:
http://disis.music.vt.edu/main/index.html has some info.
Greetings all,
I wanted to share with you my latest Linux-based and
Linuxaudio.org-related project that has been sucking up most of my
time over the past year or so to the point it seemed as if I have
disappeared off the face of the Earth. Needless to mention it
continues to alter my sleeping/eating patterns with unprecedented
aptitude and with no end in sight ;-).
http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/
It would be real nice if you could say in a few sentences what it is.
The about page on the website reads more like a personal history than
anything else, and I haven't found anything that tells me what l2ork or
disis is.
Philipp
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