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