The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) :: in the conclusion of their 2010-2011 season :: Wednesday June 1st, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. :: in the Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94035 :: free and open to the public ::

In celebration of the conclusion of a wonderful 2010-2011 season, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra performs on Wednesday with a full-scale laptop orchestra concert. You are cordially invited to an evening of all new works for the full ensemble of humans, laptops, hemispherical speaker arrays, and crazy new instruments!

Featuring new works and performances by Linden Melvin, Nick Kruge, Hyung Suk Kim, MK Li, Chang Yea, Mike Rotondo, Ben Roth, Chris Beachy, Ben Olson, Jason Riggs, Spencer Salazar, John Granzow, Hongchan Choi, Jieun Oh and Ge Wang.

For details, visit here.

L2Ork (USA) :: Performance and lecture :: Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. - May 16 at 12:00 a.m. :: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia ::

L2Ork, founded by Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic in May 2009, is part of the latest interdisciplinary initiative by the Virginia Tech Music Department’s Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio (DISIS). L2Ork consists of up to fifteen tightly networked, yet independently operated laptop computers running open source software (Linux, PD). Continue reading

Stanford Laptop Orchestra presents: Spring Concert 2010 :: June 2, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) celebrate the conclusion of a wonderful 2009-2010 season with a full-scale laptop orchestra concert in Dinkelspiel Auditorium! You are cordially invited to an evening of all new works for the full ensemble of humans, laptops, and hemispherical speaker arrays (with healthy doses of iPhones and iPads)!

Featuring new works and performances by Chris Chafe, Bruno Ruviaro, Marisol Jimenez, Uri Nieto, Jorge Herrera, Jieun Oh, Ge Wang, Visda Goudarzi, Jay Bhat, Rob Hamilton, Giancarlo Daniele, Charlie Forkish, Stephen Hess, Ben Holtz, Alan Hshieh, Daniel Smith, Lekan Wang, Aaron Zarraga, Nick Kruge, Linden Melvin, Isaac Wang, Luke Dahl, Carr Wilkerson, and Adam Somers!

SLorktastic Chamber Music 2010 :: April 29, 2010; 8:00 pm :: CCRMA Stage, Stanford University, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) presents all new works for electronic chamber music, by members of the SLOrk ensemble and seminar and featuring special guest Jordan Rudess of Dream Theatre. You are cordially invited to join us in exploring new sonic spaces + musical places with performances crafted for humans, laptops, iPads, and hemispherical speaker arrays!

For details go here or visit Stanford Laptop Orchestra on Twitter or Facebook.

SuperCollider Symposium 2010 Call for Works / Performances / Installations :: September 23-26, 2010 :: venues in Berlin :: Deadline: April 26, 2010.

We are inviting proposals for works / installations in several categories for different venues. We are looking for a very broad spectrum of works, which may range from pieces for wave field synthesis, tape pieces, acoustic instruments with live electronics, live coding performances or laptop orchestra works, club performances, and sound or audiovisual installations.

The call is open to all composers, performers and artists regardless of nationality and age.

A prerequisite is the utilization of SuperCollider in your submitted work. Continue reading

Time Lapse Live — laptop poetics to pop beat performances featuring Tim Loosli, Art Clay, Danier Werder, & Valentina Vuksic :: March 27, 2010; 5:00 - 10:30 pm :: Centre PasquArt, Lokal-int, Seevorstadt 71-75, Aarbergstrasse 84, Biel, Switzerland.

Le Mariage, Art Clay :: A performance for two Swiss music boxes and six meter punch cards :: Performers: Art Clay & Valentina Vuksic– A performative work for two music boxes and two performers inspired by musically by “La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires meme” from Marcel Duchamp. The long cards that are fed into the music boxes are six-meter long punch cards. They meet at the center of the table and entwine together over time to form a sculptural metaphor of a „marriage“ between two. Continue reading

Andrea Parkins :: February 14, 2010; 10:00 - 11:00 pm :: WKCR - 89.9 in NYC or online.

For her performance on WKCR, Parkins will be playing amplified objects, electronic accordion, and laptop electronics/live processing. Andrea Parkins is a New York-based composer, sound/installation artist and interactive electronics performer internationally acclaimed for her uniquely gestural and textural approach to her electronically-processed accordion and inventive use of customized live sound processing. Together, her laptop electronics and Fender-amped accordion create a sonic language of lush harmonics, noisy concretized disruption, and soaring electronic feedback.

Parkins’ work has been presented in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art (“Bitstreams” exhibition), The Kitchen (“New Sound/New York”), Diapason, Roulette and Experimental Intermedia; and at contemporary music, sound, and intermedia festivals/venues throughout the US and Europe, and in Latin America and Asia. Continue reading

Video, Interview: ATOM by Robert Henke, Christoph Bauder – Musical Balloon Sculpture by Peter Kirn — Inside a computer, digital music is entirely unseen. But translate it into the tangible world, and it can be anything you imagine – not limited by acoustic reality or practicality, music can become three-dimensional sculpture.

For artist Christoph Bauder and composer Robert Henke, ATOM’s light and sound sculpture found a three-dimensional matrix of balloons as its medium. Flashing in hypnotic patterns and moving into different configurations, accompanied by live laptop music from Henke (aka Monolake), music and visuals become an inseparable fusion.

ATOM received its North American premiere at Montreal’s MUTEK in May. That turned out to be perfect programming, as it placed ATOM in a week that featured complementary work from artists Artificiel. Continue reading

Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) :: June 4, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra celebrates the conclusion of a wonderful 2008-2009 season with a full-scale laptop orchestra concert. You are cordially invited to join us for an evening of all new works for the full ensemble, in Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University.

For more information, please visit here and here. Follow SLOrK on Twitter.

PLOrk/ Matmos/ So Percussion/ Riley Lee :: May 16, 2009; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ :: Tickets.

Following their performances at The Kitchen in NYC and the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, the 30-member Princeton Laptop Orchestra will present a program of all new works, in collaboration with renowned sound art duo Matmos, the Brooklyn-based ensemble So Percussion and shakuhachi master Riley Lee. In addition to new arrangements of music from Matmos’s Supreme Balloon and So Percussion’s Amid the Noise, the program will feature works by Michael Hammond, Tom Lieber, Jascha Narveson, Ted Coffey, Cameron Britt, Rebecca Fiebrink, Michael Early and Sean Friar.