Female Laptop Orchestra
FLO is a global, multicultural, multidisciplinary project, and lots of our members work at academic institutions around the world and keep tabs on what's going on in their own country in terms of conferences and events that overlap with FLO activities. Ariane, for example, works at the Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia and keeps …
After our first improvisational composition utilising chord sequences calculated by an IBM quantum computer titled 'Telematic City Jam - Glasgow' (which was broadcast as part of the Radiophrenia 2025 festival and, a few months later, on Resonance FM), we were invited to present the FLO project at the AES Europe 2025 taking place in Warsaw, …
Following on from the first performance collaboration with the awesome folks from the Ethernet Orchestra (EO), which took place at the Halfback Books & Records in Dee Why, Australia in 2019 (and was partly ‘co-located’ and partly ‘distributed’), and the 'telematic' remix we did for their album Oceans Reimagined in 2021, we thought it would …
The process of composition for Blues and Greys: For Zadar Soundscapes, CubeHarmonic, Piano, Flute, Theremin, Cymbals, Triangle and Tambourine that we presented as part of the workshop called Mathematical and Computational Models in Music, organized by the University of Pavia in Italy (but taking place online due to the pandemic), was a bit different to what we …
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Soundcamp is an arts cooperative based in London, Crete and The Hague. Their work explores intersections among social, personal and environmental ecologies. Over the years, Soundcamp folks, Grant Smith, Dawn Scarfe and Maria Papadomanolaki (who also plays with FLO), organized a number of amazing events including Reveil, a 24-hour live radio programme, assembled and broadcast …
Following the inaugural performance of In Transglashphõnē, in which we successfully streamed 8-channels of audio in real-time from London to São Paulo, we decided to do a follow-up performance as part of the Art Language Location festival (ALL2016). As part of the performance, we used real-time bi-directional streaming of 'nomadic voices' between London (QMUL) and Cambridge (Anglia …
On 6 July 2016, we attempted our first ever fully telematic performance, by performing In Transglashphõnē at the music studios at QMUL, London, UK and streaming the performance in real-time using Jack Audio and 8-channels to CMMR2016 conference, taking place at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. The aim of In Transglashphõnē was to explore our “nomadic voices” as migrant women …
Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) project was officially launched on 22 November as part of Music Tech Fest Paris, taking place at Centre Pompidou, the home of IRCAM. Nela presented the project to an audience of musicians, coders, scientists and researchers inviting them to make suggestions for remote audio-visual systems FLO could be using to rehearse, compose and perform. …
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