Hi M*,

Heading here soon this evening at Stanford:

SLOrk: Stanford Laptop Orchestra
https://events.stanford.edu/events/588/58891/

(http://slork.stanford.edu)

Interesting, and in the Bing auditorium (which I haven't yet been in, and in which we visited the foyer together not too long ago) ...

Scott

Stanford laptop OrchestrA in Bing Auditorium

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 ...

Stanford Laptop Orchestra | Twilight (2013)

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

Stanford Laptop Orchestra

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

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June 3, 2016 ...

Also heard and connected with folks at the following Stanford events re WUaS ...

Stanford Center for Latin America Studies CLAS MA Capstone Symposium June 2 2016

https://events.stanford.edu/events/610/61033/

https://las.stanford.edu/clas-ma-capstone-symposium

CLAS began in 1965.

Great grad student presentations ... and nice to connect after some of these ...

Met with Xiangyan Liu re China WUaS ...

Attended this re planning for WUaS pensions ... very helpful ...

Maria Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy and Management at Cornell University

Intergovernmental (Dis)incentives, Free-Riding, Teacher Salaries and Teacher Pensions

https://events.stanford.edu/events/609/60965/

http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=mdf98

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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 ...

Stanford Book Presentation: "Comrade Baron: A Journey Through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy"

https://creees.stanford.edu/event/book-presentation-comrade-baron-journey-through-vanishing-world-transylvanian-aristocracy

Music, Innovation, Vision, Stanford, Harbin ... heading for loving bliss brain chemistry explorations ...