Laptop & Mobile Phone Orchestras and Ensembles

Laptop Orchestras and Ensembles by founding date

• EMU Laptop Ensemble (formerly EMU Ensemble) <<www.emu-ensemble.de>> <<www.uni-ulm.de/einrichtungen/muz/emu.html>> (1986)
• The Hub <<en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hub_%28band%29>> (1986)
• Laptop Orchestra (Tokyo, Japan) <<laptoporchestra.net>> (2002)
• Helsinki Computer Orchestra (Helsinki, Finland) <<www.avantofestival.com/2003/en/live_hco.html>> <<www.muu.fi/digital/hco.html>> (2003)
• Endphase (Freiburg, Germany) <<endphase.net>> (2004)
• ImproMasters Version 1 (Helsinki, Finland) <<silakka.fi/ImproMasters/indexold.html>> (2004)
• Toshiba funded virtual Laptop Orchestra/Installation <<limiteazero.net/l_o/index.html>> <<www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/01/26/laptop-orchestra>> (2004)
• EALOB – Endliche Automaten / Laptop Orchestra Berlin (Berlin, Germany) <<endliche-automaten.de>> (2005)
• EBE – European Bridges Ensemble (Germany) <<e-b-e.eu>> (2005)
• ImproMasters Version 2 (Helsinki, Finland) <<silakka.fi/ImproMasters>> (2005-6)
• PLOrk – Princeton Laptop Orchestra <<plork.princeton.edu>> (2005)
• Seattle Laptop Orchestra <<myspace.com/laptoporchestra>> (2005)
• CMLO – Carnegie Mellon Laptop Orchestra <<www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/papers/icmc07laptop.pdf>> (2006)
• CybOrk – Moscow Laptop Cyber Orchestra (Moscow, Russia) <<cyberorchestra.com>> (2006)
• McGill Digital Orchestra (Montreal, Quebec) <<www.music.mcgill.ca/musictech/DigitalOrchestra>> (2006-2008)
• ImproMasters Version 3 (Helsinki, Finland) <<silakka.fi/shinji-kanki/teacher/ecmct-impromasters>> (2007)
• MiLO – Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra <<milo-ensemble.tumblr.com>> (2007)
• OLO Oslo Laptop Orchestra (Olso, Norway) <<www.uio.no/english/research/groups/fourms/projects/olo>> (2007)
• Worldscape Laptop Orchestra (York, England) <<www.networkworld.com/article/2349723/software/apple-conducts-world-s-first-laptop-orchestra.html>> (2007)
• ImproMasters Version 4 (Mälmö, Sweden) <<silakka.fi/shinji-kanki/teacher/nordic-sound-art-impromasters-ver-4>> (2008)
• MMUIe – Manchester Metropolitan University Laptop Ensemble (Manchester, England) <<>> (2008)
• SLOrk – Stanford Laptop Orchestra <<slork.stanford.edu>> (2008)
• Barcelona Laptop Orchestra <<blo.cat>> <<www.facebook.com/blorchestra>> (2008)
• BLOrk – Boulder Laptop Orchestra <<www.colorado.edu/music/ensembles/blork-boulder-laptop-orchestra>> (2008)
• Giovanni Cospito Laptop Orchestra (Como, Italy) <<>> (2008)
• HELO – Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra (Huddersfield, England) <<helo.ablelemon.co.uk>> (2008)
• MMULE – Manchester Metropolitan University Laptop Ensemble (Manchester, England) <<ialo.org/doku.php/laptop_orchestras/orchestras#manchester_metropolitan_university_laptop_ensemble_mmule>> (2008)
• REAPOR – Regina Electroacoustic Performance Orchestra (Saskatchewan, Canada) <<cec.sonus.ca/econtact/11_4/ogborn_reapor.html>> (2008-2009)
• AULO – Aalto University Laptop Orchestra <<aulaptoporchestra.blogspot.com>> (2009)
• Benoît and the Mandelbrots (Karlesruhe, Germany) <<www.the-mandelbrots.de>> (2009)
• Electric Monster Ensemble at MSU <<www.montana.edu/wwwmusic/musictech/musictecheme.html>> (2009)
• IBULOrk – Istanbul Bilgi University Laptop Orchestra (Istanbul, Turkey) <<ibulork.blogspot.com>> (2009)
• L²Ork – Linux Laptop Orchestra <<l2ork.music.vt.edu>> (2009)
• LOL – Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana <<laptoporchestrala.wordpress.com>> (2009)
• NYLO – New York Laptop Orchestra <<nylaptoporchestra.blogspot.com>> dead link <<dafna.info/press-documents/nylo>> (2009)
• RCM-Laptop Orchestra – Royal College of Music Laptop Orchestra (London, England) <<www.majorc.co.uk/MajorC/RCM-Laptop_Orchestra/RCM-Laptop_Orchestra.html>> (2009)
• Super D’Orch Digital Orchestra (Edinburgh, Scotland) <<myspace.com/superdorch>> (2009)
• WEF Laptop Orchestra (Warsaw, Poland) <<www.krzysztofcybulski.com/index.php?/projects/wef-laptop-orchestra>> (2009)
• blork – Bard Laptop Orchestra <<frasconimusic.com/bard-laptop-orchestra-2010>> (2010)?
• LOrkAS – Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State University <<www.lorkas.org>> (2010)
• Sideband <<sidebandband.com>> (2010)
• WCU Laptop Arts Ensemble <<www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Q7gezqYwg>> (2010)
• WCU Laptop Quartet <<>> (2010)?
• Wiivaldi Laptop Quartet (Bologna, Italy) <<sites.google.com/site/infmusbz/progetti-realizzati-1/wiivaldi-laptop-quartet>> <<www.facebook.com/WiivaldiLaptopQuartet>> (2010)?
• BiLE – Birmingham Laptop Ensemble (Birmingham, England) <<www.bilensemble.co.uk>> (2011)
• DUBLOrk – Dublin Laptop Orchestra <<www.dublinlaptoporchestra.com>> (2011)
• CiCLOP – Cincinnati Composers Laptop Orchestra Project <<ciclop.org>> (2011)
• CLOrk – Concordia Laptop Orchestra <<www.facebook.com/pages/CLOrk-Concordia-Laptop-Orchestra>> (2011)
• HELLO – Hope Experimental Live Laptop Orchestra (Liverpool, England) <<www.hope.ac.uk/media/liverpoolhope/contentassets/media,37348,en.pdf>> (2011)
• MIRA Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble (St. Petersburg, FL) <<www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150091701911493.270780.113408141492>> (2011)
• New Jersey Laptop Orchestra at NJIT <<www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/06/software_sonata_laptop_orchest.html>> (2011)
• ULLORCH – University of Louisville Laptop Orchestra <<www.facebook.com/groups/ullorch>> (2011)
• OxLOrk Oxford Laptop Orchestra (Oxford, England) <<www.facebook.com/oxlork>> (2012)?
• UI Laptop Orchestra <<music.uiowa.edu/ensembles/center-new-music>> (2014)?
• Female Laptop Orchestra <<femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com>> (2014)

 

Unknown Founding Date

• Cybernetic Orchestra at McMaster University <<esp.mcmaster.ca>>
• Electric Company | formerly CLOrk – CityU Laptop Orchestra (Hong Kong) <<www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/news-events/events/clork-cityu-laptop-orchestra>> <<www.timeout.com.hk/music/events/61612/electric-company-an-orchestra-of-laptops.html>>
• FLEA (FIU Laptop and Electronic Arts) Ensemble <<www2.fiu.edu/~midi/activities/ensembles.html>>
• Grainface Laptop Ensemble (Karlesruhe, Germany) <<www.grainface.de>>
• The London College of Communications Laptop Orchestra<<www.artslondonnews.co.uk/index.php?opt=article&siid=2430>> dead link
• MIMEO – Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra <<www.euronet.nl/users/fuhler/mimeo.htm>>
• Montréal Genetic Laptop Orchestra (Montréal, Canada)
  
• Penn Laptop Orchestra <<www.pennlaptoporchestra.com>>
• Rochester Laptop Orchestra <<rochesterfringe.com/shows/show/rochester-laptop-orchestra>>
• Scratch Laptop Orchestra <<teaching.cs.uml.edu/~heines/TUES/SLO.jsp>>
• St. Louis Laptop Ensemble <<St. Louis Laptop Ensemble>>
• SUBCLASS – Sonic UBC Laptop Sounds and Sensors <<ubcimpart.wordpress.com/about-2>>
• Third Eye Laptop Orchestra <<tammen.org/third-eye-laptop-orchestra>>
• Unknown Devices – The Laptop Orchestra <<cargocollective.com/unknowndevices>>

 

Mobile Phone Orchestras

The Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble

• Dialtones (A Telesympphony) <<flong.com/storage/experience/telesymphony/index.html>> (2001)
• James Stephenson’s Concerto for Cell Phone (2006) <<stephensonmusic.com/product/concerto-for-cell-phone-humorous>>
• Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra <<mopho.stanford.edu>> (2007)
• Helsinki Mobile Phone Orchestra <<legacy.spa.aalto.fi/projects/helsinkimopho>> (2008)
• Berlin Mobile Phone Orchestra <<www.deutsche-telekom-laboratories.de/~esslgeor/mopho>> (2008)?
• Cell Phone Orchestra app <<www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU4qHuTQYSk>>
• Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble <<mopho.eecs.umich.edu>> (2009)
• Hong Kong iPhone Orchestra <<cargocollective.com/samsonyoung/Hong-Kong-iPhone-Orchestra>> (2009)
• Vodaphone Symphonia <<www.fastcompany.com/1418694/cell-phone-symphony>> (2009)
• UNO’s Mobile Phone Orchestra <<siliconprairienews.com/2010/06/uno-s-mobile-phone-orchestra-composes-music-using-iphones>> (2010)?
• KAMPO – KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra <<www.creativeapplications.net/processing/kaist-mobile-phone-orchestra>> (2011)?
• Ng Chor Guan’s “Mobile Phone Orchestra” <<festival.kakiseni.com/mobile-phone-orchestra>>
• SK Telecom Mobile Orchestra <<www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/video/video-mobile-phone-orchestra-9apr2014>> (2014)

RESOURCES

• http://www.ialo.org
• http://www.ialo.org/doku.php/laptop_orchestras/orchestras
• http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/So%2C_you_want_to_start_a_laptop_orchestra%3F
• https://esp-mcmaster.wikispaces.com/Laptop+Orchestra+Directory
• http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/11/laptop-orchestras-from-around-world.html
• http://www.laptoporchestra.com/about.html
• http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php/57299-Laptop-orchestras-from-around-the-world
• http://aulaptoporchestra.blogspot.com/2009/06/like-minded-friends-around-world.html
• http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/13_3/eigenfeldt_laptopensemble.html
• http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2014/04/14/mobile-phone-orchestra/
• http://www.academia.edu/1982080/Evolving_the_Mobile_Phone_Orchestra

PUBLISHED 10/19/2014; UPDATED 10/20/2014