http://www.euronews.com/ Trading tablets for trumpets, computers for clarinets, and six-sided speakers for strings, Princeton University has ignored classic music's outstanding mantra - that 'if it's not baroque, don't fix it' - and has set up its very own Laptop Orchestra./nDoing away with the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, players are creating their own symphonies. As the orchestra's Co-Director, Jeff Snyder, explains: "The students in the ensemble are both musicians and programmers. Some of them are basically more musicians and some of them are really coming from a programmer background. And they are trying their hand at the other side."/nMixing Macs and cables with sax and violins, it is this exchange between the orthodox and the electronic which has excited students most. For musician Hana Shin, the leap of faith has proved worthwhile: "It makes you look at music in a different way. When I was first involved in it, honestly, I thought it was the weirdest thing. It was completely different from music as I knew it before as a classical jazz pianist."

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