Female Laptop Orchestra
Testing Grounds is an amazing art space right next to the University of Melbourne, and a perfect spot for doing an outdoor 'City Jam'! For this telematic audio-visual performance, Donna Hewit (streaming voice and live-electronics from Sydney) and Maria Mannone (streaming piano from Palermo) remotely connected with Nela and Sonia who were at Testing Grounds …
For the second in the series of Macgeorge House Sessions, Nela and Sonia were joined by FLO members Ariane Stolfi (who streamed from Brazil) and Donna Hewitt (who streamed from Sydney) as well as three special guests: Kylie Suspski (poetry), ReVerse Butcher (video projections and live visuals) and lovely Macgeorge House caretaker Michelle Frencham who 'channeled' …
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This was the first in a series of performances FLO did at Macgeorge House (as part of Nela's fellowship with the University of Melbourne, Australia) celebrating the birthday of May Macgeorge who lived in the house with her husband Norman Macgeorge since it was built in 1911. As both May and Norman were artists and …
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Visiting Sonic Arts Research Centre to talk about female-led music technology initiatives around the world, as well as perform Transmusicking II (the second in the Transmusicking series) was a real treat!!! Franziska Schroeder (SARC), Liz Dobson (University of Huddersfield/ Yorkshire Sound Women Network (YSWN) and Ada Mathea Hoel (WoNoMute), joined FLO for the very first time, …
Following our collaboration with the Zagreb Flute Ensemble (ZAF), we started planning a new performance with the WiMT (Women in Music Tech), an organization co-founded by Anna Xambó and Léa Ikkache at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Ximena was unable to join us, as having been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (huge …
Sunday 18 December 2016 was a special date indeed! It marked the longest project FLO ever did, culminating in the most interesting artistic collaboration between: 10 classically trained musicians playing 4 different types of flutes based in Zagreb (Zagreb Flute Ensemble), 1 classically trained music composer based in Banja Luka (David Mastikosa), 1 classically trained …
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Turns out, doing a performance at Klang 2015 in Durham was a 'piece of cake' compared to the Sound Kitchen 2015 performance, FLO team flew out to do a few weeks later, as part of PQ2015 in Prague. Long story short ... Testing Day 1: Butt software does not recognise Alesis iO2 audio interface ... erm ... …
Preparing a collaborative music performance involving 3 co-located performers, 6 distributed performers and an AI agent mixing local and remote sound sources (sometimes delayed by up to 20.3 seconds) so the output can be spatialised over 8-channel speakers is no mean feat! Add to that: 'making friends' with a borrowed cello that has different acoustic …
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