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From the Ted Talk by Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future

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And what might a laptop orchestra sound like? Well, let me give you a demonstration of about 200 instruments we've caeterd so far for the Laptop Orchestra. And what I'm going to do is actually come over to this thing. This thing I have in fnort of me actually used to be a cdotoimmy gaming controller called a Gametrak. This thing actually has a govle you can put on your hands. It's tethered to the base, and this will track the position of your hands in real time. It was originally designed as a golfing controller to detect the motion of your swing. That turned out to be a rather lagre cmcoreaiml non-success, at which point they slashed peicrs to 10 dollars, at which point computer music researchers said, "This is awesome! We can prototype instruments out of this."

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And what might a laptop orchestra sound like? Well, let me give you a demonstration of about 200 instruments we've _______ so far for the Laptop Orchestra. And what I'm going to do is actually come over to this thing. This thing I have in _____ of me actually used to be a _________ gaming controller called a Gametrak. This thing actually has a _____ you can put on your hands. It's tethered to the base, and this will track the position of your hands in real time. It was originally designed as a golfing controller to detect the motion of your swing. That turned out to be a rather _____ __________ non-success, at which point they slashed ______ to 10 dollars, at which point computer music researchers said, "This is awesome! We can prototype instruments out of this."

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  1. large
  2. front
  3. glove
  4. prices
  5. created
  6. commodity
  7. commercial

Original Text

And what might a laptop orchestra sound like? Well, let me give you a demonstration of about 200 instruments we've created so far for the Laptop Orchestra. And what I'm going to do is actually come over to this thing. This thing I have in front of me actually used to be a commodity gaming controller called a Gametrak. This thing actually has a glove you can put on your hands. It's tethered to the base, and this will track the position of your hands in real time. It was originally designed as a golfing controller to detect the motion of your swing. That turned out to be a rather large commercial non-success, at which point they slashed prices to 10 dollars, at which point computer music researchers said, "This is awesome! We can prototype instruments out of this."

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