PLOrk: Thermal Music

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra presents a collaboration between the Music Department and CHAOS Lab – “Thermal Music”. What if temperature were a parameter of a live performance just like light and sound? And what if temperature were used as an input for control of sound? Come see what happens at this event, in which PLOrk debuts new robotic heaters designed as part of a research project between composer Jeff Snyder from the Music Department and designer Forrest Meggars from the School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Pieces include a seance-inspired performance composed by professor of music Juri Seo and a group-composed piece using thermodynamic score generated by swirling water of different temperatures. Forrest Meggars gives a brief interlude to contemplate what it means to heat or cool someone, and how experiential learning about heating and cooling can help change our current paradigms that cause climate change and fail to make comfortable climates.

Thanks for support from the Music Department and the School of Architecture, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, CreativeX and the Council for Science and Technology.

The concert will be held at the Embodied Computation Lab, just south of the Frick Chemistry Building.

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