Apple hardware contributed for Worldscape multimedia project
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 15, 2007 at 1:19pm
Worldscape is a new multimedia entertainment, created entirely by students of the Department of Music, University of York, working in conjunction with composer and music department lecturer Ambrose Field.
Worldscape is described as “a response to the global information age in which we live, and recent global issues are used as source material for new musical compositions.” This two-hour show features acoustic and electronic works, with multi-screen surround video backdrops.
As part of the performance, Apple has linked with the University of York for world’s largest laptop orchestra. The Worldscape Laptop Orchestra (WLO) will perform new music written with new software on laptops donated by Apple. Musicians, each with a laptop, will be seated on the floor, and surrounded by video screens in an atmospheric lighting scheme.
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