2023年12月11日发(作者：焉宛菡)
游戏笔记本电脑排名[神奇的笔记本电脑音乐]
笔记本电脑早已不是什么新名词，但笔记本电脑音乐就让人感到有点陌生，特别是有个乐团叫做笔记本电脑音乐演奏团的，这就叫人感到有些不可思议。美国普林斯顿大学计算机系和音乐系联手的电脑音乐演奏团，就用笔记本电脑来演奏音乐。
全部用笔记本电脑来演奏音乐，这绝对不同于其他的传统乐器或者电子乐器演奏。美国的这个笔记本电脑音乐演奏团，是由美国普林斯顿大学计算机系的教授和在校的博士研究生、本科生等15名成员组成。他们的演出，代表电脑业的触角已经伸向音乐领域，这是电脑业的一种新动向，也代表电脑在音乐领域里的最新研究成果。
那是一个非常寒冷的雪夜，美国普林斯顿大学数学物理系的主楼??泰坡林大楼（Taplin Auditorium）室内演示厅早早地坐满了听众。欣赏是免费的，凡是去参加音乐会的人在门口都可以拿到节目单和简短的说明书。我和两个好友抱着猎奇心理，也参加了这场奇特的音乐会。走进演出厅，只见舞台的地板上十几台笔记本电脑分别摆在大大的扩音箱上，旁边连接着他们自行设计制造的六声道开放型立体声喇叭，麦克风和一个酷似电子游戏器的控制器。
靠特殊肢体语言指挥
笔记本电脑音乐演奏团的团员们入场了，他们身着黑色长裤和黑色T恤衫，显得又轻松又休闲的样子，与穿戴一袭黑色的西服和黑色领结的传统管弦乐团团员们截然不同。没有冗长的开场白，乐团团员们轻手轻脚地走到各自的笔记本电脑前，手指飞快地在键盘上敲打着输入指令，然后就向站在前台的乐队指挥竖起大拇指，用手语来报告一切准备就绪，看来特殊的乐队指挥也特殊，他用自己首创的特殊肢体语言来指挥的，所用的只是十个手指变换着手势，这些动作有些像练气功，有些像打哑语，但是动作幅度很大。此时只见指挥俯下身去展开双臂，手心向上挥扬，慢慢地起身，随之传来的便是由远而近的马蹄声，声浪高时就像万马奔腾近在咫尺，但随着指挥的手势往下压，马蹄声也就渐渐远去；当指挥俯身用手在空中划着小圈时，你会听到风声乍起，随着指挥的手势在空中的圆圈越划越大，那声浪就像狂风卷着沙尘咆哮而至，然而谁能想到这种恢宏的声势，竟然是由十几台笔记本电脑连接着立体声音响发出来的模拟声！随着指挥的手势，我们接着又听到有节奏的鼓点，还听到深山古刹中悠远的钟声和清脆的脚步声。
如痴如醉入幻境
笔记本电脑音乐演奏团不仅演奏了这些几可乱真的模拟声，他们还分别演奏了自己的创新曲目。有令人耳目一新的“镜子舞”，其中有长笛独奏加笔记本电脑音乐伴奏和有真人发音和笔记本电脑混声的交织音乐。“倾听地球的声音”是这个演奏团创作的主题，他们把人们从来没有听到过的或者从来没有注意听的声音，通过电脑的编程，将字符变成音符，把曲线变成声波呈献给听众；这真正是人类在计算机时代产生的新兴的音乐。
特别值得一提的是由计算机博士生王戈创作并演出的乐章《水晶城》，这个乐章表现了一股清风吹到一个高高的山峰上，这时听到的是丛林草木的摇曳声，风穿越于山间石缝的呼啸声和山峦之间互相呼应的回声，令人心旷神怡，接着这股清风随之旋入了一个山洞，那是一个长满了水晶石的山洞。风儿在山洞中穿越，水晶与风儿在对话，五光十色的水晶不断地发出各种各样美妙的声音，变幻着奇妙无比的音符，最终，随着风儿的离去，山洞中的水晶又回归到了静谧的原始状态之中。这是一段虚拟的，从来没有听到过的美轮美奂的声音，完全将人们带入一种虚无缥缈的境界，好像是在混沌初开的远古，又好似在未知状态的未来世界。我注意到观众席上有的人闭上了眼睛，不知是闭目聆听还是沉入梦乡？美国音乐评论家宝林・奥立菲斯（Pauline Oliveros）说：“声音和音乐是无尽的销魂资源，它将外面的世界融入我的内心。”音乐能够表达或者调节人的情绪与情感，神奇的电脑音乐刚刚崭露头角就能沁人心脾，前程不可估量。
开辟音乐新天地
演出结束后，我有机会找到电脑音乐团发起者和组织者之一的王戈进行采访。王戈是一个不到30岁的小伙子，半长的头发微卷，兼具音乐家和新新电脑人的气质。王戈来自北京，九岁时随父母来到美国，自幼喜爱音乐的他会拉手风琴，弹得一手好吉他，在中学时，他迷上了电脑，后来以优异的成绩考上了美国杜克大学（DUKE *****ITY）攻读计算机专业，同时也选修专业音乐课程。上大学期间，他曾经在美国微软总部做过两年暑期实习生，在那个软件王国里，他的计算机编写程序能力得到极大的提高。大学本科毕业后，他被美国普林斯顿大学计算机系录取为博士研究生，因为这里的计算机系和音乐系正联手研发电脑音乐，这正好发挥他的两个强项。
王戈说，其实电脑音乐在20世纪60年代就已经出现在美国等计算机技术比较领先的国家，那时就有人试用电脑在编辑和制作音乐。后来笔记本电脑音乐也出现在歌厅和一些公共场合，但那只是以个体的形式出现的。随着电脑的飞速发展，特别到了90年代后期，电脑音乐的软件开发如雨后春笋般破土而出，如今只要上网搜索，不难发现免费的电脑音乐软件比比皆是。
笔记本电脑不是乐器，笔记本电脑有许多不同的功能：上互联网，通讯联络，编写程序，运用软件，储存数据，处理图像等等，处理音乐只是电脑众多功能中的一部分。但电脑音乐可以模拟各种不同的乐器的发音，也可模拟人声的发音。你可以让笔记本电脑模拟钢琴的声音，也可以让它发出大小提琴或者管弦乐器的声音而不必更换乐器。不过电脑音乐暂时不可能取代传统音乐，因为目前的电脑还不可能取代传统乐器。世界上现存的乐器是人类经过千百年的淘洗而留存下来的精华，是人类的宝贵财富之一。电脑音乐最大的优势在于能够创造出人类从来没有听到过的声音；另一个优势就是电脑音乐的创作过程比传统的交响曲创作过程更容易修改，电脑音乐作曲家可以在笔记本电脑上创作音乐，并且边听边改，直至满意。
Melodious Laptop Computers
By Qin Feng, Our special reporter in USA
A notebook computer is nothing new, but it is extremely
incredible that notebook computers work like a band to play
music. Fifteen professors, doctoral students, graduates and
undergraduates with the computer department and music
department of Princeton University have organized themselves
into a band to play music with their notebooks.
Just the other day, I attended a concert at Taplin Auditorium
on the campus of Princeton University. Admission was free and
everyone of the audience received a playbill and a brief
introduction. A close look at the stage revealed that more than a
dozen laptop computers perched on sound boxes, each
connected to a six-channel stereo system, a microphone, and a
controller that looked like a game-playing console.
The musicians filed onto the stage, all dressed in black
trousers and black T-shirts. They looked pretty relaxed. The
introductory talk was brief before the performance. They treaded
softly to the computers. Their fingers nimbly input commands
quietly. One by one, they gave the conductor a thumbs-up to
indicate they were ready.
The music began. The conductor coordinated all the sounds.
His body language looked quite mesmerizing. He bent his body
forward and opened his arms like wings and then he straightened his torso and lifted his arms. We heard the sounds of
horses?hoofs approaching from the distant. As he curved forward
gradually and his arms pushed down, horses galloped away. His
hands drew small circles in the air and we heard the noise of a
wind. The larger the circles, the louder the wind. In the end, the
wind crescendoed into a storm, howling with vengeance. In
another piece, as the conductor continued to move his fingers
magically, we heard the rhythmic noises of drums, footsteps and
distant bells from a temple in a deep valley.A piece called “Mirrors
Dancing?was actually a symphonic composition. The players
created sounds to go with the melody of a flute player to stage a
flute concerto and then mixed a melody of computerized sounds
and human voices. “Listening to the Sounds of Earth? a theme of
the band’s musical creations, unleashed the sounds which people
either never heard or never paid attention to.
“Crystal City? composed by Wang Ge, a doctoral student
who had come from China to USA at the age of nine, was also an
analogous piece of composition. Winds blew, trees swished,
crystals in a cave responded to winds and echoes. Such ethereal
and futuristic sounds, though man-made, introduced an
intriguing and transparent universe to the audience. Some people
just closed their eyes to enjoy the mood created by the music.
After the concert, I talked with Wang Ge, one of the founders
and leaders of the band. He was in his late 20s. With somewhat
long semi-curled hair, he looked like a musician and a computer
nerd. He was a good player of accordion and guitar in his teenage
years and became a computer geek in the high school. Duke
University made it possible for him to major in computer and
minor in music at the same time. Now a student for a doctorate degree in computer science at Princeton, he was finally able to
put his two passions together.
Wang Ge briefed me on the origin and development of
computers as music tools. As soon as computers debuted in the
United States in the 1960s, people began to edit and compose
music on computers. Computers appeared as music instruments
in some concerts and on some public occasions quite early. But
these were just some individual cases. It was not until the late
1990s that music software mushroomed and computers were
more frequently used for the purpose of making music. Now a
computer can imitate all kinds of musical instruments and human
voice. Without making any physical changes, a computer can
make sounds like a piano, a violin, a flute. But computers are not
meant to replace established musical instruments, which are the
best that remain after time has eliminated so many other musical
instruments. The biggest advantage of a computer is that it can
create sounds that human ears have never heard from nature. A
composer can easily make a melody on a computer and then
keep modifying it by playing it back repeatedly in all ways until
he is satisfied.
(Translated by Tian Jinjiang)
2023年12月11日发(作者：焉宛菡)
游戏笔记本电脑排名[神奇的笔记本电脑音乐]
笔记本电脑早已不是什么新名词，但笔记本电脑音乐就让人感到有点陌生，特别是有个乐团叫做笔记本电脑音乐演奏团的，这就叫人感到有些不可思议。美国普林斯顿大学计算机系和音乐系联手的电脑音乐演奏团，就用笔记本电脑来演奏音乐。
全部用笔记本电脑来演奏音乐，这绝对不同于其他的传统乐器或者电子乐器演奏。美国的这个笔记本电脑音乐演奏团，是由美国普林斯顿大学计算机系的教授和在校的博士研究生、本科生等15名成员组成。他们的演出，代表电脑业的触角已经伸向音乐领域，这是电脑业的一种新动向，也代表电脑在音乐领域里的最新研究成果。
那是一个非常寒冷的雪夜，美国普林斯顿大学数学物理系的主楼??泰坡林大楼（Taplin Auditorium）室内演示厅早早地坐满了听众。欣赏是免费的，凡是去参加音乐会的人在门口都可以拿到节目单和简短的说明书。我和两个好友抱着猎奇心理，也参加了这场奇特的音乐会。走进演出厅，只见舞台的地板上十几台笔记本电脑分别摆在大大的扩音箱上，旁边连接着他们自行设计制造的六声道开放型立体声喇叭，麦克风和一个酷似电子游戏器的控制器。
靠特殊肢体语言指挥
笔记本电脑音乐演奏团的团员们入场了，他们身着黑色长裤和黑色T恤衫，显得又轻松又休闲的样子，与穿戴一袭黑色的西服和黑色领结的传统管弦乐团团员们截然不同。没有冗长的开场白，乐团团员们轻手轻脚地走到各自的笔记本电脑前，手指飞快地在键盘上敲打着输入指令，然后就向站在前台的乐队指挥竖起大拇指，用手语来报告一切准备就绪，看来特殊的乐队指挥也特殊，他用自己首创的特殊肢体语言来指挥的，所用的只是十个手指变换着手势，这些动作有些像练气功，有些像打哑语，但是动作幅度很大。此时只见指挥俯下身去展开双臂，手心向上挥扬，慢慢地起身，随之传来的便是由远而近的马蹄声，声浪高时就像万马奔腾近在咫尺，但随着指挥的手势往下压，马蹄声也就渐渐远去；当指挥俯身用手在空中划着小圈时，你会听到风声乍起，随着指挥的手势在空中的圆圈越划越大，那声浪就像狂风卷着沙尘咆哮而至，然而谁能想到这种恢宏的声势，竟然是由十几台笔记本电脑连接着立体声音响发出来的模拟声！随着指挥的手势，我们接着又听到有节奏的鼓点，还听到深山古刹中悠远的钟声和清脆的脚步声。
如痴如醉入幻境
笔记本电脑音乐演奏团不仅演奏了这些几可乱真的模拟声，他们还分别演奏了自己的创新曲目。有令人耳目一新的“镜子舞”，其中有长笛独奏加笔记本电脑音乐伴奏和有真人发音和笔记本电脑混声的交织音乐。“倾听地球的声音”是这个演奏团创作的主题，他们把人们从来没有听到过的或者从来没有注意听的声音，通过电脑的编程，将字符变成音符，把曲线变成声波呈献给听众；这真正是人类在计算机时代产生的新兴的音乐。
特别值得一提的是由计算机博士生王戈创作并演出的乐章《水晶城》，这个乐章表现了一股清风吹到一个高高的山峰上，这时听到的是丛林草木的摇曳声，风穿越于山间石缝的呼啸声和山峦之间互相呼应的回声，令人心旷神怡，接着这股清风随之旋入了一个山洞，那是一个长满了水晶石的山洞。风儿在山洞中穿越，水晶与风儿在对话，五光十色的水晶不断地发出各种各样美妙的声音，变幻着奇妙无比的音符，最终，随着风儿的离去，山洞中的水晶又回归到了静谧的原始状态之中。这是一段虚拟的，从来没有听到过的美轮美奂的声音，完全将人们带入一种虚无缥缈的境界，好像是在混沌初开的远古，又好似在未知状态的未来世界。我注意到观众席上有的人闭上了眼睛，不知是闭目聆听还是沉入梦乡？美国音乐评论家宝林・奥立菲斯（Pauline Oliveros）说：“声音和音乐是无尽的销魂资源，它将外面的世界融入我的内心。”音乐能够表达或者调节人的情绪与情感，神奇的电脑音乐刚刚崭露头角就能沁人心脾，前程不可估量。
开辟音乐新天地
演出结束后，我有机会找到电脑音乐团发起者和组织者之一的王戈进行采访。王戈是一个不到30岁的小伙子，半长的头发微卷，兼具音乐家和新新电脑人的气质。王戈来自北京，九岁时随父母来到美国，自幼喜爱音乐的他会拉手风琴，弹得一手好吉他，在中学时，他迷上了电脑，后来以优异的成绩考上了美国杜克大学（DUKE *****ITY）攻读计算机专业，同时也选修专业音乐课程。上大学期间，他曾经在美国微软总部做过两年暑期实习生，在那个软件王国里，他的计算机编写程序能力得到极大的提高。大学本科毕业后，他被美国普林斯顿大学计算机系录取为博士研究生，因为这里的计算机系和音乐系正联手研发电脑音乐，这正好发挥他的两个强项。
王戈说，其实电脑音乐在20世纪60年代就已经出现在美国等计算机技术比较领先的国家，那时就有人试用电脑在编辑和制作音乐。后来笔记本电脑音乐也出现在歌厅和一些公共场合，但那只是以个体的形式出现的。随着电脑的飞速发展，特别到了90年代后期，电脑音乐的软件开发如雨后春笋般破土而出，如今只要上网搜索，不难发现免费的电脑音乐软件比比皆是。
笔记本电脑不是乐器，笔记本电脑有许多不同的功能：上互联网，通讯联络，编写程序，运用软件，储存数据，处理图像等等，处理音乐只是电脑众多功能中的一部分。但电脑音乐可以模拟各种不同的乐器的发音，也可模拟人声的发音。你可以让笔记本电脑模拟钢琴的声音，也可以让它发出大小提琴或者管弦乐器的声音而不必更换乐器。不过电脑音乐暂时不可能取代传统音乐，因为目前的电脑还不可能取代传统乐器。世界上现存的乐器是人类经过千百年的淘洗而留存下来的精华，是人类的宝贵财富之一。电脑音乐最大的优势在于能够创造出人类从来没有听到过的声音；另一个优势就是电脑音乐的创作过程比传统的交响曲创作过程更容易修改，电脑音乐作曲家可以在笔记本电脑上创作音乐，并且边听边改，直至满意。
Melodious Laptop Computers
By Qin Feng, Our special reporter in USA
A notebook computer is nothing new, but it is extremely
incredible that notebook computers work like a band to play
music. Fifteen professors, doctoral students, graduates and
undergraduates with the computer department and music
department of Princeton University have organized themselves
into a band to play music with their notebooks.
Just the other day, I attended a concert at Taplin Auditorium
on the campus of Princeton University. Admission was free and
everyone of the audience received a playbill and a brief
introduction. A close look at the stage revealed that more than a
dozen laptop computers perched on sound boxes, each
connected to a six-channel stereo system, a microphone, and a
controller that looked like a game-playing console.
The musicians filed onto the stage, all dressed in black
trousers and black T-shirts. They looked pretty relaxed. The
introductory talk was brief before the performance. They treaded
softly to the computers. Their fingers nimbly input commands
quietly. One by one, they gave the conductor a thumbs-up to
indicate they were ready.
The music began. The conductor coordinated all the sounds.
His body language looked quite mesmerizing. He bent his body
forward and opened his arms like wings and then he straightened his torso and lifted his arms. We heard the sounds of
horses?hoofs approaching from the distant. As he curved forward
gradually and his arms pushed down, horses galloped away. His
hands drew small circles in the air and we heard the noise of a
wind. The larger the circles, the louder the wind. In the end, the
wind crescendoed into a storm, howling with vengeance. In
another piece, as the conductor continued to move his fingers
magically, we heard the rhythmic noises of drums, footsteps and
distant bells from a temple in a deep valley.A piece called “Mirrors
Dancing?was actually a symphonic composition. The players
created sounds to go with the melody of a flute player to stage a
flute concerto and then mixed a melody of computerized sounds
and human voices. “Listening to the Sounds of Earth? a theme of
the band’s musical creations, unleashed the sounds which people
either never heard or never paid attention to.
“Crystal City? composed by Wang Ge, a doctoral student
who had come from China to USA at the age of nine, was also an
analogous piece of composition. Winds blew, trees swished,
crystals in a cave responded to winds and echoes. Such ethereal
and futuristic sounds, though man-made, introduced an
intriguing and transparent universe to the audience. Some people
just closed their eyes to enjoy the mood created by the music.
After the concert, I talked with Wang Ge, one of the founders
and leaders of the band. He was in his late 20s. With somewhat
long semi-curled hair, he looked like a musician and a computer
nerd. He was a good player of accordion and guitar in his teenage
years and became a computer geek in the high school. Duke
University made it possible for him to major in computer and
minor in music at the same time. Now a student for a doctorate degree in computer science at Princeton, he was finally able to
put his two passions together.
Wang Ge briefed me on the origin and development of
computers as music tools. As soon as computers debuted in the
United States in the 1960s, people began to edit and compose
music on computers. Computers appeared as music instruments
in some concerts and on some public occasions quite early. But
these were just some individual cases. It was not until the late
1990s that music software mushroomed and computers were
more frequently used for the purpose of making music. Now a
computer can imitate all kinds of musical instruments and human
voice. Without making any physical changes, a computer can
make sounds like a piano, a violin, a flute. But computers are not
meant to replace established musical instruments, which are the
best that remain after time has eliminated so many other musical
instruments. The biggest advantage of a computer is that it can
create sounds that human ears have never heard from nature. A
composer can easily make a melody on a computer and then
keep modifying it by playing it back repeatedly in all ways until
he is satisfied.
(Translated by Tian Jinjiang)