Laptop orchestras from around the world

[Garritan]

Laptop orchestras are beginning to get popular. Here are some laptop orchestras from around the world as listed on the Music Blog:

1) PLOrk: The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Ymixm1xmw))
2) The Tokyo Laptop Orchestra (http://laptoporchestra.net/) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQvGbYIXq0))
3) The London College of Communications Laptop Orchestra (http://www.artslondonnews.co.uk/index.php?opt=article&siid=2430)
4) The Seattle Laptop Orchestra (http://www.laptoporchestra.com/photos.html)
5) The Toshiba-funded virtual Laptop Orchestra (http://limiteazero.net/l_o/index.html) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhTdSJ5fOA))
6) The Moscow Laptop Orchestra (http://cyberorchestra.com/) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVYvjX6CODE))
7) The Berlin Laptoporchester (http://www.laptoporchester.de/) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zx8BOKmBiw))

Any others you know of?

Gary

[reberclark]

Never heard of this! What a great idea!

[RichR]

I have a hard time relating what I heard here to what I know is music. I listened to most of the sound and video clips and heard mostly sound experimentation and some visualization as well. I did not hear anything that I would call music. I would call it sound art but not music. There was no compositional technigue, no melodic development. There was some rhythmic cadence but all seemed to be chaotic and non-directional.

I don't think you can call them laptop orchestras. Laptop sound art is more fitting. If this is the direction music is going, I'll stick with the 3 B's.