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UBC: Laptop Orchestra
Who needs an instrument to join a band in 2015? Not the members of the UBC laptop orchestra, who code their instruments and control them through gestures of the body, instead. Twice a year, director Robert Pritchard leads the ensemble—the approximately 20 students enrolled in Sonic UBC Laptop Sounds and Sensors—through a full orchestra performance using motion-sensing webcams, iPhones, tablets and Wiis, among many other devices.
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