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== PLOrk Concert, Spring 2007 ==

* May 19th, 2007 8pm
* Taplin Auditorium

== Pieces ==

* Nic Collins...
** ''Waggle Dance'':
** ''Waggle Dance relies on two sets of sounds: firstly feedback between each laptop’s built-in mike and its speakers, and secondly intimate texts written and recorded by the member of the orchestra.   Only the edges of these sounds, however, are heard as each laptop runs a program that, like a nervous conversationalist in the principal’s office, makes noise through a awkwardly belated attempt to self-edit (this process emulates a venerable analog signal processing device known as a “Ducker”.)  Every time a computer starts to say something, it shuts itself up, but always a moment too late.   The cat is never let out of the bag, but we can hear its whiskers twitching.'':

* Sam Pluta...
** ''title'':
** ''program notes'':

* Alan Tormey...
** ''...to shining sea'':
** ''program notes'':

* Ge Wang...
** ''title'':
** ''program notes'':

* Scott Smallwood...
** ''Fabrics'':
** ''program notes'':

* Anne Hege...
** ''Maybe the Monolith will just calm down'':
** ''Music by Anne Hege. Text by Colleen Plimier. Software design by Spencer Salazar. Vocalist - Anne Hege

"For hundreds of thousands of years, mankind lived without a straight line in nature. Objects in this world resonated with each 
other. For the caveman, the mountain Greek, the Indian hunter (indeed, even for the latter-day Manchu Chinese), the world 
was multicentered and reverberating. It was gyroscopic. Life was like being inside a sphere, 360 degrees without margins...Here 
we have a clue to the mentality of the pre-literate, that world of oral tradition that we eventually left behind about the end of 
the Hellenic period. It is the mentality of the multitude, or as Yeats put it: everything happening at once, in a state of constant 
flux."

- Marshall McLuhan "Visual and Acoustic Space" from Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
'':

* Scott Elmegreen and John Fontein
** '' '':
** ''program notes'':

== Biographies ==

Nicolas Collins is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Music.  His first laptop was a 1977 Synertek Vim, with 1k of memory.  His recent book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, on the other hand, is a guide to the joys of analog.