Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future
جي وانغ: أوركسترا أفعلها بنفسك المستقبلية
Both a musician and a computer scientist, Ge Wang turns ordinary MacBooks and iPhones into complex instruments. Full bio
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best to provide a definition,
of code before in your life,
من قبل في حياتك،
حاسوبي. حسنا؟
at 440 hertz for two seconds.
that computers are really good at,
Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
actually come over to this thing.
you can put on your hands.
for the Laptop Orchestra,
English pendant configuration,
accompaniment with the melody.
dramatic effect, if you want,
three-letter names today, Los Angeles.
coming from all around the world
when there's 1,000 people.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ge Wang - Music technologistBoth a musician and a computer scientist, Ge Wang turns ordinary MacBooks and iPhones into complex instruments.
Why you should listen
Ge Wang explores the intersection of technology and music, researching how programming languages and interactive software systems can push computer music from coded beeps and tones to something that musicians can actively play in the moment. An Associate Professor at Stanford University, Wang is the founding director of both the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPho). He was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2016 and is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime -- a 488-page, full-color comic book about design as the art of humanizing technology (Stanford University Press, 2018).
Wang is also the man behind ChucK, a programming language built specifically for sound. He also co-founded Smule, a startup dedicated to musical apps that let people around the world make beautiful music … and connect with each other in the process. Wang is the designer of Ocarina, which turns your iPhone into an ancient flute.
Ge Wang | Speaker | TED.com