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Upcoming Premiere

Coming up on Saturday, October 19th, 2024 @ 8p ET in the Old Town Alexandria VA Waterfront Park, a premiere of a new work commissioned by the City of Alexandria VA Office of the Arts, featuring the L2Ork International Ensemble featuring projection mapping by Thomas Tucker. Come experience a telematic music co-creation of the latest EDM-style work by the artist thousands of miles apart!

Learn more at:
https://www.alexandriava.gov/public-art/project/site-see-interstellar-influencer-make-an-impact

L2Ork International Ensemble Premiere of a New Work in Alexandria VA Waterfront Park

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Hello L2Orkers!

🎢✨ Gala here! I want to share some exciting news with you all. We’ve been performing quite a lot recently, and being a part of the Laptop Orchestra is getting better and better! πŸŽ΅πŸ’»

We now have 3 new videos on our YouTube channel: two from NYCEMF and one from the ICAD conference. You can check them out below:

πŸŽ₯ 8-bit Petal @ NYCEMF 2024: Watch now

πŸŽ₯ Territorio Prismatico @ NYCEMF 2024: Watch now

πŸŽ₯ 8-bit Petal and Territorio Prismatico @ ICAD 2024: Watch now

I hope you guys enjoy our latest pieces, Territorio Prismatico and 8-Bit Pedal. We’re now starting to compose our next piece, so… stay tuned! 🎢✨

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After years of development, the Pd-L2Ork developer community is thrilled to announce immediate availability of the WebPdL2Ork open BETA that is capable of running just about any patch created using Pd-L2Ork inside a browser. Simply upload your patch to a Web-accessible location and point your browser to http://pd-l2ork.music.vt.edu:3000?url=<URL-to-your-patch>

All related subpatches and abstractions will be accessible as long as they are in the path. The main patch will be stretched across the browser window. Subpatches may be visible as floating windows as long as their location has been saved within the box of the original patch. Some adjustments may be necessary to the subpatch locations, or they can be even embedded as graph-on-parent-enabled subpatches on the main patch window.

To test out patches already hosted on our page, please use links provided below. Select patches also have hidden shortcuts. For optimal experience, we recommend Google Chrome or Chromium.

VT Waves Project Learning Modules:

  • Autotune (explore how an Adelle solo refrain would sound if sung on a single note;)
  • Distortion (experiment with clipping an audio signal to create a guitar-like distortion)
  • Phase Cancellation (learn how to cancel vocals from just about any mainstream pop tune by subtracting the right channel from the left with an inverted phase, use Shift+(1-3) to enable different sources)
  • Pitch Relationships (explore frequency and pitch relationships; use Shift+A to enable pitch/frequency ratio viewer, and Shift+S to open spectrogram subpatch)
  • Spectral Filtering (the iconic Forbidden Planet and FFT-based vocal filtering)
  • Spectral Filtering Harmonics (explore decomposition and reconstruction of human voice into 10 sine tones; use keys ~ and 1-0 to toggle individual overtones, use Shift+(2-3) to enable other potential sound sources, toggle off a source to “pause” the signal, use Shift+4 to toggle slider that cross-fades betwen the original signal and reconstructed one)

And, if you have a beefy computer, you can also run the entire L2Ork Tweeter inside the browser (currently networking is not supported, so only the offline mode is available). Once loaded, consider opening one of the included saved sessions using the top-right corner session loading option by typing “grapevine-end” (without quotes) inside the “SESSION NAME” text box, pressing enter, and then clicking on the green “LOAD” button positioned immediately to the left of the text box. Please be patient with the loading process, as this is a CPU intensive patch (the pd-l2ork patch itself is in excess of 5MB). Once the session is loaded, it may take up to 10 seconds for the audio engine to catch-up before the audio dropouts stop. If dropouts do not stop, or if loading takes much longer, chances are your CPU is not fast enough to handle the patch running inside the browser (you can always explore the desktop version which is considerably less CPU intensive). Use Shift+(F1-F12) to take control of individual parts. For more info on L2Ork Tweeter, including tutorial videos, visit our Tweeter page.

What does not work: Gem library, networking objects (they load but do not work due to sandboxed nature of a web browser) and a few select (and not commonly used) 3rd-party libraries are not yet supported. Everything else should work out-of-box.

To learn how to build your own HTTPS-enabled web server: Visit the pd-l2ork github and read the emscripten/DOCUMENTATION.md file.

This project is sponsored by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research under ONR award number N00014-22-1-2164. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Naval Research.

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L2Ork Tweeter Alpha Test and L2Orkist Reunion

It’s been a while since we’ve posted news on our main site, in good part because we’ve been voicing ourselves mostly via Facebook. Today, however, things are different. A whole lot different. The world is facing an unprecedented pandemic, and we felt like we had to do something to help us all get through these tough times. While we may not be good at developing a vaccine, what we are good at is connecting people. And connect people we shall. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce a free collaborative online laptop music making tool whose brevity has inspired its name.

L2Ork Tweeter (formerly known as L2Orkmatic) is a free open source, collaborative, and cross-platform laptop orchestra telematic (online) jamming tool destined to bring current, past, and aspiring L2Orkists and the community members closer through music. Driven by a simple FM synthesis engine and a loop-based 64-note tracker that runs locally, it aims to minimize the impact of the network latency inherent to online collaboration. The system allows for basic server admin, presence of both performers and guests/observers/audience, includes a chat system, as well as a way for sharing instrument presets, tracker loops, and even entire sessions. It also offers an offline mode where users can create their own works, or enhance the existing ones. So, head to the L2Ork Tweeter page to learn how to install your own free copy and start jamming today!

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Welcome to 2018

Over the past several years most of the L2Ork’s activity shifted to the social media channels, most notably the Facebook. L2Ork has continued to grow and develop. This semester we have 15 members. We are developing a new affordable controller (a.k.a. NIME) that will enable greater expressive range. In the fall 2016 we introduced World’s first Raspberry Pi (RPi) Orchestra, starting with an arrangement of Brian Eno’s An Ending (Ascent). We also began exploring broader aesthetics–with the introduction of the RPi Orchestra, we discovered one of our former members Savannah Allen having an amazing talent for rap which has led to L2Ork’s first Rap piece L2Orkin’ Around with the lyrics by Savannah (check out the excerpt here). Most recently, we have been gearing up for a premiere of a new piece inspired by the Alien franchise that also utilizes an accompanying video footage. The plan was to premiere it today as part of the annual Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts scholarship fundraiser concert titled Exposition: Cinescapes. Alas, due to a major snow storm, or what some refer to as snowpocalypse, the event was cancelled. As a result, the Alien will be premiered at the Spring DISIS event.

For those seeking pd-l2ork, rest assured, the project is alive and well. Thanks to the efforts of Jonathan Wilkes and Albert Graef its development has shifted to the 2.x branch that now supports all major platforms and uses Node.js for all its GUI needs. There is still work left to be done before we completely abandon the 1.x branch, most notably the K12 module that remains to be ported. This summer, pd-l2ork has been selected as one of the Google Summer of Code projects. The deadline for application is only day away, but there is still time to apply. For students interested in participating, please subscribe and post your interest on the l2ork-dev mailing list.

This summer, Virginia Tech SOPA and DISIS in collaboration with ICAT, as well as University of Virginia are proudly sponsoring New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2018 international conference. For more info, visit NIME 2018 website.

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements coming soon!

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