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Laptop Orchestra

Founded by myself and Dan Trueman in 2011, DubLork is a collective that focuses on bringing theatricality and physical presence into electronic music performance. The group has collaborated with ensembles including This Is How We Fly, Yurodny, Crash Ensemble, and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra. DubLork has also created numerous site-specific performances for galleries, such as Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Market Studios, The Backloft, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

www.dublinlaptoporchestra.com

Dublin Laptop Orchestra

Founded by myself and Dan Trueman in 2011, the Dublin Laptop Orchestra is a collective that focuses on bringing theatricality and physical presence into electronic music performance. The group has collaborated with ensembles including This Is How We Fly, Yurodny, Crash Ensemble, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. DubLork has also created numerous site-specific performances for galleries, such as Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Market Studios, The Backloft, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

http://www.ArbutusYarns.com The Dublin Laptop Orchestra perform and collaborate with Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh and 'This Is How ~We Fly' in Smock Alley Dublin on the 11th of December 2011 The Dublin Laptop Orchestra are: Alex Dowling Amanda Feery David Collier Enda Gallery Jenn Kirby Mark Rooney Rachel Ní Chuinn Saramai Leech Tara Lewis Formed in 2010, This is How we Fly is a Contemporary Folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle & hardanger fiddle, Seán Mac Erlaine on bass clarinet, saxophones & live electronics, Nic Gareiss on percussive dance, and Petter Berndalen on drums and percussion.

The video above is a documentary by Myles O'Reilly (Arbutus Yarns) that follows the creation of a show between us and the contemporary folk group This Is How We Fly at Smock Alley Theater, Dublin.

Below is a video of my piece Foxhunters that was part of the project Scilens, a collaboration with the traditional group Yurodny that aimed to connect trad/folk music with gestural technology. Tapping on the laptop keyboard creates rhythms reminiscent of Irish dancers and the speed/velocity that the keys are tapped effects the quality and intensity of the rhythms. 

Yurodny SciLens feat. Dan Trueman and DubLORK The Factory, Studio One July 13th 2012 Imagine Science ADRIAN HART -- VIOLIN AND ELECTRONICS OLEG PONOMAREV -- VIOLIN CORA VENUS LUNNY -- VIOLIN, VIOLA KATE ELLIS -- CELLO NICK ROTH -- SAXOPHONES COLM O'HARA -- TROMBONE FRANCESCO TURRISI -- KEYBOARDS AND PERCUSSION DAVE REDMOND -- DOUBLE BASS PHIL MACMULLAN -- DRUMS DAN TRUEMAN -- HARDINGER AND ELECTRONICS ALEX DOWLING -- LAPTOP EMMA O'HALLORAN -- LAPTOP RACHEL NÍ CHUINN -- LAPTOP DAVID COLLIER - LAPTOP SCILENS is to tradition what silence is to sound.