Suite Venitienne. For Orchestra

The Engineers’ Orchestra: A Conductorless Orchestra for Our Time

Engineering students often view performance skills—leadership, teamwork, and communication—as “soft skills.” Yet they are essential for advancing a professional career. To impart these skills, engineering educators recommend courses in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHS). Since a limited number of credit hours exist for nontechnical subjects in engineering curricula, educators focus...

The Machine Orchestra

This paper describes the making of the Machine Orchestra, a unique ensemble that combines custom musical interface design, hemispherical speakers, networked performance, and musical robotics. This project is built as part of the final year curriculum in Music Technology at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where students amalgamate computer science, digital signal processing, circuit ...

Musician Participation in Symphony Orchestra Management : The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Experience

Provenance in ORCHESTRA

Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for settings in which structured data is collaboratively authored by a large community, such as in the sciences, there is seldom consensus about how the data should be represented, what is correct, and which sources are authori...

Orchestrating your cloud orchestra

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 which we propose to call 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 lo...