First of all, yes this is oh so nerdy! Now we know a little more about what nerds do on weekends.. But lets face it, sometimes when nerds come together, they deliver something quite cool. No, I'm not talking about live fantasy battles or queing outside cinemas for weeks. Check theese clips out, its laptop orchestras.

"Laptop orchestras first started at Princeton University where they gathered a group of students with Macbooks, built custom speakers and experimented together. This gave birth to PLOrk, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra.The students perform with a software called ChucK, a software designed by Ge Wang and Perry Cook specifically for the orchestra. ChucK gives students the ability to utilize their computers keyboard, trackpad and tilt-motion capabilities to perform and control keys, volume, pitch, effects and that kind of stuff. In some cases, they even use wiimotes(you’ll see in the video). The music they do together isn’t exactly what you’d expect from an orchestra. It ranges a lot more in the experimental genre. But regardless, it’s still cool."

Unfortunately this clip is spoiled by the nerds talking about their lap top orchestra... If you want to start a laptop orchestra you can find some pointers from the PLOrk HERE

The japanese have a more visual approach, the tokyo laptop orchestra:

I think the japanese really put the Princeton gang to shame here

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