With groups like PLOrk and Benoit and the Mandelbrots leading the way, the laptop ensemble is becoming a force to be reckoned with. We’ll feature laptop ensembles improvising, playing composed music, live coding and even collaborating with an orchestra. Listen and believe!
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Benoit and the Mandelbrots – Ghostly
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) – Inline
The Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) of Virginia Tech – Citadel
The Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk) – Excerpt from Creation
Performed by CLOrk, the Orchestre Symphonique de l’Isle; Cristian Gort, conductor
PLOrk – FourSquared
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOL) Jargos Table (excerpt) by Van SteifelIn
ChucK (excerpt) by Stephen David, BeckCliX (excerpt) by Ge Wang
Manchester Metropolitan University Laptop Ensemble (MMUle – )Cut Up Slow Down
William S. Burrows, text; Martin Blaine, director
The EMU Ensemble – Ginger
Cristine Soeffing, director