ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language

ChucK is the computer programming language for orchestrating music as made popular by laptop orchestras at universities like Princeton and Stanford. Ge Wang is an Assistant Professor in Stanford’s Department of Music and their Department of Computer Science. In this lecture given as part of Stanford’s University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547), Wang discusses the design, philosophy, and development of ChucK, a computer music programming language intending to provide a different approach, expressiveness, and thinking with respect to time and parallelism in audio programming – as well as a platform for precise and rapid experimentation. In the second part of this presentation, Ge describes his adventures with the “laptop orchestra”: a new type of large-scale, computer-mediated music ensemble.

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