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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robin wrote: >> 2009/10/23 <hollunder@xxxxxx>: >> >>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:52:26 -0400 >>> "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >>> >>> >> http://disis.music.vt.edu/main/index.html has some info. >> >> >> > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
