The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana will perform at LSU in a showcase of talent on Wednesday.

Entry is free, and the event will be held in the Louisiana Digital Media Center Theater.

The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana is an ensemble of musicians who use electronics and found objects, creating sound from unexpected places and melding them together to make cohesive beats and synths. They have been a performance group at LSU since 2010.

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Overseeing the ensemble this year is Jesse Allison, an associate professor of experimental music and digital media at LSU. 

“Every piece is different. Every concert is very different, but it’s all experimental in some fashion, whether it’s of the instruments or whether it’s the music,” Allison said. 

Not only do the musicians create the vision for the music, but they put together the simple circuits and digital interfaces that create the sound itself, according to musician and performer David Burchett.

Burchett, an experimental music and digital media graduate student, said he experiments with any and everything, including acoustic music and found objects to see which combinations work best for any particular piece. 

Experimental composer Erin Demastes said the ensemble will perform famous pieces written by composers from the 1960s and 1970s as well as current pieces. 

“[The audience] will kind of be able to piece together what they see with the interaction between the group, with each other and with the music, so it should be fun,” Demastes said.