The Linux Laptop Orchestra
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They seem to follow the mould of existing LOrks, which are primarily attached to universities with undergraduate musicians. Because the technical hurdles are high, very few players also compose for the ensembles, although they sometimes build their own speakers and undertake other technical tasks. As a rule, the ensembles exist for pedagogical reasons but these do not tend to strongly include performance practice or technical materials on a level high enough to actually empower the user. Their appropriation of the orchestral metaphor is apt because they are similarly cogs in a larger machine, but they lack the freedoms and skills present in traditional orchestras as they seem to be under even more control and with much less emphasis on performance practice.
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