YOU'RE IN THE LONDON COMMUNITY LAPTOP ORCHESTRA.

LCLO IS A COMMUNITY RUN LAPTOP ORCHESTRA MAKING SOUNDS IN A VARIETY OF UNUSUAL PLACES.

LCLO HOLDS A COMMUNITY ETHOS WHERE ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE.

INSPIRED BY GROUPS LIKE THE 1969-1974'S SCRATCH ORCHESTRA AND WITH A FOCUS ON GUERRILLA PERFORMANCES, WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE LAPTOP AS A TOOL FOR LOCALISED COLLECTIVE CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE.

OUR POLITICS ARE EXPLICIT BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE. SOUND ART SPACES CAN BE ISOLATING, ELITIST, EXCLUSIONARY AND BIGOTED. WE AIM TO BE ACTIVE IN BREAKING THOSE STEREOTYPES.

FOUNDED AND (CURRENTLY) RUN BY KAT MACDONALD.

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LONDON - WE ARE SITE SPECIFIC. LCLO CAN'T PERFORM OUTSIDE OF LONDON, OTHERWISE IT'S NO LONGER THE (L)CLO.

COMMUNITY - OUR FOCUS IS ON HOW WE BUILD COMMUNITY AROUND AND IN RELATION TO TECHNOLOGY. HOW THAT COMMUNITY SITS IN THE WIDER CONTEXT OF ITS SETTING. HOW WE TAKE UP SPACE.

LAPTOP - REALLY, THIS IS A STAND-IN FOR UBIQUITOUS MULTI-PURPOSE TECHNOLOGIES, BUT IT ALSO REPRESENTS A MATERIAL CONNECTION. WE ARE INTERESTED IN THE LAPTOP HOLISTICALLY. ITS SOFTWARE BUT ALSO ITS HARDWARE. ITS OS BUT ALSO ITS SPEAKERS.

ORCHESTRA - PARTLY, ITS ALLUSIONS TO SOUND MAKING, BUT ALSO ITS RELATION TO THEATRICAL STAGING. WE TRY TO KEEP OFF THE STAGE, HOPING TO BLUR THE LINES BETWEEN PERFORMER AND PARTICIPANT. EVERYONE IS IN LCLO. NO-ONE IS IN LCLO.