Raspberry Pi Orchestra’s focus is on offering a malleable and affordable platform for the exploration of both musical instrument building and musicianship. The following proposal is comprised of two components: a workshop and a performance. Participants in a day-long workshop will be given an opportunity to learn about the hardware setup, various approaches to sensing user input, instrument design using Pd-L2Ork (a fork of Pure-Data and Pd-Extended), and efficient approaches to communicating musical score. A select group of participants (up to 6) will be also given an opportunity to partake in the performance consisting of two compositions: an arrangement of Brian Eno’s “An Ending (Ascent)” for the Raspberry Pi Orchestra, and a new improvisatory piece devised as part of the latter half of the workshop.
Participants need to bring their own laptops with an ethernet port, an ethernet cable, and headphones/earbuds. Lastly, they are encouraged to bring their own Raspberry Pi if they have one with Raspbian pre-installed
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee4VG1uwkDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s28GdeFwQKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaMD44wlUrQ
http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/make-your-own-l2ork/software/
http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/make-your-own-l2ork/software/raspberry-pi/
http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/screenshots/
http://facebook.com/L2Ork
