Daily Debriefing

The 28th annual Festival of New Music will take place at Dartmouth beginning this Saturday. The festival's inspiration came when students expressed a desire to be exposed to different types of music not necessarily found in the classroom, and will bring students, professors and composers together to celebrate experimental music. "The festival began in part as a reaction to student requests to include more courses devoted to music composition and performance as opposed to music appreciation and analysis," festival co-director Ryan Berger '04 said. This year the festival's theme is "Orchestras of Sameness." The theme was inspired by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, PLOrk, which is a group of 15 Princeton University students who sit on pillows and perform using laptop computers surrounded by hemispherical speakers and control devices.