The Making of Leork: The Virginia Tech Linux Laptop Orchestra

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2009
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This poster describes the making of Leork, the Virginia Tech Linux Laptop Orchestra. The challenge of the project was to assemble a laptop orchestra using open source software, create self-constructed speakers, and obtain netbooks for a minimal cost. The project goals were to design and build a website, build hemispherical speakers, and construct software patches in Pure Data. At the project's conclusion, 16 hemispherical speakers were built, a website was developed and made available at 12ork.music.vt.edu, and all software patches were completed.

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Laptop orchestras, Open source software, Self constructed speakers
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Dr. Ico Bukvic, Michael Matthews, Maya Renfro, and Andy Wood. "The Making of Leork: The Virginia Tech Linux Laptop Orchestra."