Spring was also a really busy time with the national SEAMUS 2015<\/a>\u00a03-day conference taking place at Virginia Tech with 14 concerts, two listening rooms, two installation locations, and six paper sessions and panels. L2Ork peformed Between<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in ICAT’s\u00a0Cube in front of a standing room only audience as part of conference’s opening concert. The performance featured\u00a0L2Orkist Brock Allen on the sax and the rest of the L2Orkists\u00a0spread across two levels of catwalks. It was also the first L2Ork performance featuring the new Glasstra app<\/a> for Google Glass that displayed network and FUDI-enabled GUI that was controlled via pd-l2ork, and a concealed Wiimote and Nunchuk that was used to conduct and switch between sections.<\/p>\n On April 9th, L2Ork had its second visit to the Ferrum College for an evening-long performance, followed by the April 19th School of Performing Arts’\u00a0Exposition<\/a> scholarship fundraiser concert back at the Fife hall. Around the same time L2Ork did another photo session<\/a> with the Spring 2015 generation of L2Orkists guided by the talented eye of Cooper Long. Finally, on May 4th, L2Ork performed as part of the Spring 2015 DISIS event<\/a>\u00a0and the annual ICAT day<\/a>\u00a0where we premiered two new works, including a really cool\u00a0Insomniac<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>composition by the L2Orkist Jacob Stenzel.<\/p>\n Summer was just as intense with two week-long Maker camps, the annual K-12 instrument building camp<\/a> and the inaugural teachers’ Maker camp. With the addition of new objects, such as the complete General MIDI implementation within pd-l2ork K12 module<\/a>, this year kids have taken instrument building to a whole new level. Speaking of which, Pd-L2Ork development continues at a rapid pace with a number of releases, including most recently the 20151018 release<\/a>\u00a0that introduces rtcmix~<\/a> external, Eric Lyon’s fftease and potpourri libraries, as well as the new autotune~ external. There is also a major new version (currently\u00a0in the alpha stage) we are hoping to release sometime this academic year.<\/p>\n This fall, we also participated in a number of performances, including Virginia Tech’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction<\/a>‘s\u00a020th anniversary celebration<\/a>, as part of the Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance<\/a> festival where we premiered a new work by Eric Lyon, and perhaps most excitingly a recent\u00a0outreach performance made possible by one of the summer teachers’ Maker camp participants, Stephanie Hufton at Botetourt County’s Read Mountain Middle School, where L2Ork performed in front of 300 incredibly enthusiastic middle school students and teachers. The event was also covered by the\u00a0regional Roanoke Times<\/a> whose Saturday newspaper front page and online flattering coverage really made our day.<\/p>\n So, all this brings me to perhaps the most exciting announcement. This summer, the international\u00a0Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities<\/a>, a non-profit organization with an amazingly exciting goal of establishing and validating the so-called transdisciplinary third space that in many ways defines L2Ork and its mission, put out a call for national transdisciplinary exemplars, the pool of applicants included\u00a0top national institutions. Only six exemplars were selected \u00a0by the national peer review<\/a> to be showcased at the upcoming a2ru conference<\/a> scheduled for November 8-11, 2015 at Virginia Tech, and we are thrilled by the fact that L2Ork was one of them<\/a>!<\/p>\n And so this brings us to roughly today, even though there are a few more pending announcements in the pipeline I will leave for the next blog, so stay tuned for more updates soon!\u00a0All right, now that we are mostly caught-up, it’s time to get back to\u00a0preparations for the upcoming a2ru conference<\/a>. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After another tremendously busy year, virtual cobwebs have covered L2Ork’s front page. It is time for another mega-post, a year in review, if you like. 2015 has been an exciting year. Following my research leave in 2014, things were slowly revving up, only to kick in the high gear with the onset of the spring<\/p>\n![\"L2Ork](\"https:\/\/l2ork.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/L2Ork_@SEAMUS2015-1024x576.jpg\" "\\"L2Ork")
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