The Grey 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 ...

The Fragmented Orchestra

The Fragmented Orchestra is a distributed musical instrument which combines live audio streams from geographically disparate sites, and granulates each according to the spike timings of an artificial spiking neural network. This paper introduces the work, outlining its historical context, technical architecture, neuronal model and network infrastructure, making specific reference to modes of in...

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

Evaluation of the Mobile Orchestra Explorer Paradigm

The Mobile Orchestra Explorer paradigm enables active experience of prerecorded music: users can navigate and express themselves in a shared (physical or virtual) orchestra space, populated by the sections of a prerecorded music. The user moves in a room with his/her mobile phone in his/her hand: the music performed by the orchestra sections is rendered according to the user position and moveme...