FLO & FRIENDS: City Jam Berlin, Kontakte 2022

The Academy of the Arts Berlin (Akademie der Künste) is one of the oldest European cultural institutes, founded in 1696. It consists of six sections: Fine Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Art, and over the years, it served as a venue for exhibitions, events and performances and an important hub for …

EO+FLO: Telematic City Jam – Calgary, Sound Kitchen 2022

Following on from the first performance collaboration with the awesome folks from the Ethernet Orchestra (EO), which took place at the Halfback Books & Records in Dee Why, Australia in 2019 (and was partly ‘co-located’ and partly ‘distributed’), and the 'telematic' remix we did for their album Oceans Reimagined in 2021, we thought it would …

FLO at ‘Ghost Structures’ – a telematic album collaboration

In 2021, as part of the ]FairTsuku[ project, presenting female and non-binary composers from various backgrounds, the Fair_Play network (Vienna, Austria) and Tsuku Boshi Records (Paris, France) invited Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) and Camille Lacroix to produce music for their upcoming EP, 'Ghost Structures'.  Between September 2021 and September 2022, FLO members: Nela Brown (London), …

FLO at ‘Oceans Reimagined’ a tele-collaborative remix project

Ethernet Orchestra (EO) is an internet-based musical ensemble that explores 'intercultural improvisation' through networked musical performances on the web. We did our first collaboration with EO in 2019 (at Halfback Books & Records store in Dee Why, Sydney), and were looking forward to EO releasing their new album aptly named 'Oceans between Sound' on the Chilean …

FLO at Mathematical and Computational Models in Music 2021

The process of composition for Blues and Greys: For Zadar Soundscapes, CubeHarmonic, Piano, Flute, Theremin, Cymbals, Triangle and Tambourine that we presented as part of the workshop called Mathematical and Computational Models in Music, organized by the University of Pavia in Italy (but taking place online due to the pandemic), was a bit different to what we …

FLO at Reveil – SC8 Off Grid

Soundcamp is an arts cooperative based in London, Crete and The Hague. Their work explores intersections among social, personal and environmental ecologies. Over the years, Soundcamp folks, Grant Smith, Dawn Scarfe and Maria Papadomanolaki (who also plays with FLO), organized a number of amazing events including Reveil, a 24-hour live radio programme, assembled and broadcast …

FLO at Physically Distant 2: Online Talks on Telematic Performance 2020

Prior to March 2020, 'telematic music performance' or 'networked music performance', was a niche area of music performance, mainly of interest to researchers at academic institutions with high-speed internet and hobbyist musicians who wanted to jam with other musicians from the comfort of their bedroom. Whilst researchers had access to technical know-how as well as …

FLO at Hangar Rarefacció 2019

Hangar, the centre for art research and production in Barcelona, Spain, is one of the nicest places for doing workshops and experimental performances and has an amazing team of people running it (see the THANK YOU list below!). Having performed there for the very first time in 2018, we were delighted to be invited to …

FLO & FRIENDS: City Jam – Zagreb 2019

Following FLO performances in Melbourne and Sydney and collaboration with ZAF and Roger (Alsop) on the 'Along the riverrun' projects in Melbourne, Nela and Roger were invited to do a short residency at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb. As part of this residency, Nela did a talk about FLO and, together with Roger, …

EO + FLO: Live at Halfback Books & Records 2019

EO and FLO collaboration was 'on the cards' since Nela met Roger Mills (amazing trumpeter, producer and founder of the Ethernet Orchestra), at the World Stage Design 2017 in Tapei, where Roger presented his work with EO and talked about how they did the recording of their latest album 'Oceans Between Sound' (which btw is …