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02Nov 2010

“With Good Reason”

Posted in Announcements

This past weekend L2Ork was featured as part of an interview on the “With Good Reason” radio show that airs in Virginia and D.C. I would like to use this opportunity to extend special thanks to the radio show host Sarah McConnell, associate producer Elliot Majerczyk, as well as the rest of the production team for this wonderful opportunity. To find out more, (including interview audio footage) please click here or visit WGR website.

P.S. Apparently, the same story also aired on on Roanoke’s WVTF (89.1) on Wednesday, November 3 at 7:30 PM, and as part of the morning NPR segment on the 4th. VT press release can be accessed by clicking here.

13Sep 2010

Upcoming North Carolina Mini-Tour

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Things are off to a rather hectic start–we are already less than a week away from our first mini-tour of the 2010/11 season. L2Ork will be stopping by Duke University on Sept. 19th for an outdoor performance (weather permitting), followed by a lecture recital at WSSU on the 20th. Finally, on 21st we will be featured on two concerts as part of the UNCG’s New Music Festival. For additional info on the performance times and locations, see the Events page.

Hope to see you there!

06Sep 2010

L2Ork 2.0

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I would like to use this opportunity to welcome all our old and new L2Orkists back to the beautiful VT campus. We have some exciting things planned for this year including the upcoming North Carolina tour (and hopefully a couple surprises I am not a liberty to discuss just yet :-). I am also very pleased to report that as of this fall L2Ork has now 17 members. To top it all off, this past summer, we’ve worked hard at further improving upon the networking protocol and as a result our platform is now more stable than ever.

Indeed, there are a lot of exciting things in store for us this year, so stay tuned for more updates… soon!

08May 2010

Phone = Soap

Posted in TechnoBabble

I cannot really add much to Miles’s post. And I suppose it is coming a little late. And at an odd time (4 in the morning). But someone asked me earlier today (or I guess yesterday) to describe the L2ork tour. And well one of the best ways for me to do that was to cite a funny instance on the tour. Actually, it doesn’t really do anything to describe the tour. It’s just kind of funny.

I think we were in Carbondale. And I reached into my pocket to grab my phone so that I could text Ico and ask him when we would get a break to eat. But instead of my phone, my pocket yielded a complimentary bar of soap, compliments of the Carbondale Comfort Inn.

Apparently, complimentary bars of soap in your pocket feel the same as a phone in your pocket. I then proceeded to text people on my newly acquired soap phone throughout the rest of the day.

Oddly enough, no one seemed to reply to any of my texts.

25Apr 2010

L2orkin’ Amazing

Posted in Uncategorized

I don’t know if anyone knows much about touring so here is a statement in regards to touring: you spend an inordinate amount of time with the same people.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but as has happened with this group something magical has happened, everyone becomes their own separate person.

While 2 hours a day twice a week seems like a large amount of time with the same people, 24 hours a day for 5 days is a ridiculous amount of time. During this time one gets to know the person, rather than the part; and groups of people once associated with one another shatter and are replaced with individuality. It’s quite amazing really and one of the best things that has happened on this trip.

Furthermore, this conference has been the most creatively jarring experience that most of us ever had. It really puts into perspective the artistic work that Ico and L2ork and the kids in Computer Music are trying to do and are trying to introduce to the world. One really gets a glimpse into a world that, to most of us, is completely new and original.

Though it is not entirely over, it is coming to a close and I’d like to take this time to show appreciation for anyone responsible for making this “tour” possible, to thank all of the artists that we have met and experienced and most of all to Ico, for taking a rag-tag bunch of students and introducing them into a new world and we would not be here without you.

And lastly to the L2orkists: It has been an inspiration and pleasure to get to know you all as individuals and while I enjoy the time spent with you… I’m going to need you all to go home.

-Miles