Welcome!

Welcome to the Digital Orchestra League!

Our organization was formed to serve as a focal point, clearinghouse, advocate and convening platform for digital orchestra activities.

We invite the members of the digital orchestra community (including scientists, musicians, composers, conductors, theorists, developers, artists and critics) to comment on and contribute to defining our mission and focus.

And, of course, we also would like to invite you to become a member. (It’s free.) We encourage new members to contribute through online communities, scholarly work, research, and various activities which further the field of knowledge. The Digital Orchestra League is dedicated to the discussion and dissemination of information and knowledge related to all issues associated with digital orchestra technology and its applications.

The League is committed to the support and promotion of knowledge and research in digital orchestra activity. The League is a non-profit, non-commercial entity dedicated to the free exchange of ideas and information in a non-competitive and open environment.

Please help us refine our mission and focus by commenting below …

Currently, the League defines digital orchestra activity as:

1. All activities related to the digital control, manipulation, and behavior of orchestral music in recorded form or in real time. This includes, for example, the production of orchestral music on digital audio workstations using sample libraries, the use of digital technology to perform music in real time, and the study and improvement of orchestral performance practices with digital technology.

   In addition, the digital orchestra domain includes activity and research in the related areas of sound synthesis, sampling, physical modeling, and reconstructive phrase modeling. Thus, the relationship between performance control and sound generation is a closely integrated one. While the definition suggests an emphasis on acoustical orchestral simulation, the League accepts a broad definition of the term digital orchestra in order to accommodate a wide range of aesthetic perspectives.

2. The League also supports and embraces scholarly or theoretical work that explores or investigates the social, cultural, economic, political, or philosophical impact of digital orchestra development and applications.
3. We also support musical endeavors — specifically, recordings and live concerts — that use digital orchestra technology to solve musical/practical problems and in real-world settings.

One of the league’s aims is to encourage digital orchestra musicians to perform at the highest level of their abilities. The idea is that if digital orchestra performances can begin to offer high-quality musical experiences, then this will not only be a good thing in itself, but may also affect the quality of orchestral music performance in general.