Papers

Session 1: Composer Perspectives - Monday 9:15 AM

• John Gibson – Wind Farm, a Composition for Laptop Ensemble
• Michael Early – Game Theory: A composer’s perspective on Play, Danger, & Interaction in composing for laptops
• Nick Hwang – Composer perspective on “What the What: A collection of Laptop Orchestra works for Wii-­motes”

Session 2: Education - Monday 10:30 AM

• Jason Woolley – Using laptop composition and performance as a pedagogical tool within Higher Education
• Bruno Ruviaro – From Schaeffer to *LOrks: an expanded definition of musical instrument in the context of laptop orchestras
• Chris Branton and Stephen Beck – LELA – Laptop Ensemble/Library Archive
• Nathan Wolek  - Media representations of the laptop as musical instrument

Keynote Address: Ten Past and Future Lessons of Laptop Orchestra, Ge Wang, Stanford University and Smule – Monday 1:00 PM

Panel Session 1: Monday 2:15 PM

• Can Multi-Computer Music Bring Us Together and Not Apart? The Laptop Orchestra as Social Experiment
• David Rothenberg, Chair

Session 3: Performance - Monday 3:30 PM

• Timothy Edwards and Ben Sutherland – Eyes off the Screen! Restoring visual freedom in LEO performance
• Travis Garrison, Adam Neal, Benjamin O’Brien and Sean Peuquet – Florida League for Indeterminate Performance (FLIP) Panel Discussion
• Anne Hege – Middle Passage: Reclaiming what is Lost as Performance and Practice

Session 4: Performance - Monday 4:45 PM

• Ivica Bukvic and Matthew Komelski – Strategies for Structured *Ork Performance Choreography: Integrating Taiji Martial Arts into L2Ork Repertoire
• David Williams – Composing for and Performing with iPads
• Sang Won Lee, Jason Freeman, Andrew Collela, Akito Van Troyer and Shannon Yao – Evaluating Collaborative Laptop Improvisation with LOLC

Session 5: Composition - Tuesday 9:00 AM

• Martin Blain – Issues in instrumental design: the ontological problem (opportunity?) of ‘liveness’ for a laptop ensemble
• Scott Hewitt – Notational Approaches for Laptop Ensembles
• Christopher Burns – Adapting Electroacoustic Repertoire for Laptop Ensemble

Session 6: Instruments - Tuesday 10:15 AM

• Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling and Raakhi Kapur – Don’t forget the machines: Orchestra of Humans, Laptops, and Robots
• Jesse Allison – Web Based Control of Mobile Ensembles
• Nathan Bowen – 4Quarters: Real-time Collaborative Music Environment for Mobile Phones

Panel Session 2: Tuesday 1:00 PM

• Play Something Crazy…Now: Improvisation as a Tool in Composing for Laptop Orchestras
  
• Jeff Albert, chair

Session 7: Networking - Tuesday 2:15 PM

• Roger Dannenberg – Laptop Orchestra Communication Using a Publish-Subscribe Server
• Konrad Kaczmarek – alskdjalskdjalskdj: Documenting the process involved in writing a timing-accurate networked piece for a Laptop Ensemble.
• Georg Hajdu – Composing for Networks

Session 8: Next Steps? – Tuesday 3:30 PM

• Moderated by Stephen David Beck