Talks

• 21 November 2025, WAC2025 Diversity Panel, Paris, France

Moderated by Suzanne Saint-Cast, this panel, consisting of FLO members: Nela Brown,  Ariane de Souza Stolfi and Silvia Binda Heiserova, and WAC2025 participants: Panagiota Anastasopoulou, Bruna Guarnieri Colasso, Luisa Pereira, Anna Xambó, Joana Chicau, Jessica A. Rodriguez, Rochelle Tham, Zeynep Özcan and Elaine Chew, discussed diversity in the WAC community and the field of music and computing in general. 

You can watch the video recording of the panel here, and check the ‘Call for diversity’ published by the WAC2025 before the conference as an example of good practice here 🙂

• 5 October 2022, Female Laptop Orchestra: bridging continents, countries and culture through telematic music performance, Pause. Play. Discover … London, UK

In this (online) talk, organised by the Association of Sound Designers (ASD) as part of the ‘Pause. Play. Discover …’ festival, Nela Brown presented some examples of recent  FLO performances and discussed the challenges of telematic music making pre/during and post-pandemic.

This talk was made possible by the kind support from:

• 24 September 2022, Female Laptop Orchestra: bridging continents, countries and culture through telematic music performance, KONTAKTE’22, Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

In this talk, organised by the Akademie der Künste as part of the KONTAKTE’22 festival, Nela Brown presented some examples of recent  FLO performances and discussed the opportunities for connecting globally through sound afforded by the (fixed and mobile) pre/during and post-pandemic. 

This talk was made possible by the kind support from:

• 24 September 2022, Um-/Auf-/Ausbrüche: About Resets (Discussion Panel), KONTAKTE’22, Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

This panel discussion was made possible by the kind support from:

• 7 August 2022, Female Laptop Orchestra – Telematic Performance in the Pandemic Age, WSD 2022 Jury Flash Talks, Calgary, Canada

In this online talk, organised by OISTAT as part of the World Stage Design 2022, Nela Brown presented some examples of recent  FLO performances and discussed the challenges of telematic music-making during the pandemic. 

• 3 June 2021, FLO – Redefining the Future of Ensemble Performance, BCSWomen SG,  BCS, The Chartered Institute For IT, London, UK 

In this online talk, organised by BCSWomen (one of FLO sponsors), Nela Brown presented some examples of recent FLO performances, talked about the software and hardware FLO used for remote collaboration as well as challenges of streaming a remote performance to globally distributed audiences.

Talk moderator: Andrea Palmer, Chairwoman, BCSWomen SG.

• 26 October 2020, Physically Distant #3: the network, the pandemic, and telematic performance, Luleå University of Technology, Piteå, Sweden

The 3rd in the series of online talks discussing telematic music performance, was organised by the Gesture Embodiment and Machines in Music, GEMM))) at the Luleå University of Technology, School of Music in Piteå, as part of Ecology, Site And Place – Piteå Performing Arts Biennial 2020. Nela Brown participated in the Panel I: Instrumentality in Networked Performance (alongside Henrik Von Coler, Juan Parra, Franziska Schroeder and Nicholas Brown) and talked about ‘instrumentality in the age of low fidelity’ reflecting on the performance FLO did during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic. 

Event organisers/ talks moderators: Federico Visi and Stefan Östersjö.

• 28 July 2020, Physically Distant #2: Online Talks on Telematic Performance, Luleå University of Technology, Piteå, Sweden 

At the 2nd in the series of online talks discussing telematic music performance, organised by the Gesture Embodiment and Machines in Music, GEMM))) at the Luleå University of Technology, School of Music in Piteå, Nela Brown presented the FLO project, as a follow-up to FLO performance of Absurdity, which was streamed to the event.

Event organisers/ talks moderators: Federico Visi and Stefan Östersjö.

• 19 June 2019, Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, Croatia 

From Musicking to Transmusicking. In this talk, Nela presented some examples of recent FLO performances that took place as part of her fellowship with the University of Melbourne, and discussed different modes of communication in multicultural, multilingual, geographically distributed collaborations. 

This talk was made possible by the kind support from the following organisations:

     

• 21 November 2018, Sonic Laboratory, SARC, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland  

Women in music technology around the world: Female Laptop Orchestra (UK), Women in Music Tech (USA), WoNoMute (Norway), Sonora (Brazil) and Yorkshire Sound Women Network (UK)

A roundtable debating the existing initiatives and networks of women in music technology around the world.

• FLO: Nela Brown, Magdalena Chudy, Tuna Pase and Sonia Wilkie (joining via Skype)
• Women in Music Tech (WiMT): Anna Xambó
• WoNoMute: Anna Xambó and Ada Methea Hoel
• SONORA: Ariane Stolfi (joining via Skype)
• Yorkshire Sound Women Network (YSWN): Liz Dobson
• Panel moderator: Franziska Schroeder

Watch the recording of the roundtable that was streamed live on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/qubmusicteam/videos/726209934444608/

This roundtable was made possible by the kind support from the following organisations:

• 28 June 2018, I Conferencia Internacional Atenea Mujeres Artistas Tecnólogas, La Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

Mesa 5: Música Y Tecnología. A roundtable presenting initiatives and networks of women in music technology in Spain and the UK. Moderated by Montse Briceño, La Universitat Politècnica de València. Guest speakers: Liz Teutsch (Berklee College of Music, Valencia), Natalia Piñuel (She Makes Noise), She Knows Tech (Berklee College of Music, Valencia), Alayna Hughes (Curiosibot) and Nela Brown (FLO).

This roundtable was made possible by the kind support from the following organisations: