LOLC

In LOLC, the musicians in the laptop orchestra use a live-coding language, developed specifically for this piece, to create and share rhythmic motives based on a collection of recorded sounds. The language encourages musicians to share their code with each other, developing an improvisational conversation over time as material is looped, borrowed, and transformed. LOLC is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a larger research project on musical improvisation in performance and education.

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2011

  • Freeman, J. (2011). “Artist Statement: Bringing Instrumental Musicians Into Interactive Music Systems Through Notation” in Leonardo Music Journal, MIT Press, 21.

  • Freeman, J., Lee, S., Yao, S., and Albin, A. (2011). “LOLC for Laptop Music Ensemble (artist statement)” in Proceedings of the 8th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC 2011), Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Lee, S., Freeman, J., Colella, A., Yao, S., and Van Troyer, A. (2011). “Collaborative Improvisation in a Laptop Ensemble with LOLC” in Proceedings of the 8th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC 2011), Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Freeman, J. and Van Troyer, A. (2011). “Collaborative Textual Improvisation in a Laptop Ensemble” in Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, 35:2, pp. 8-21.