Laptop Ensemble Novi Sad

The Laptop Ensemble Novi Sad (LENS) was founded in 2024 at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with the aim of exploring and developing the use of laptop computers as musical instruments. LENS members are Jovana Dragojević, Bojan Ožegović, Kosta Ranđelović i Milan Milojković. The ensemble's repertoire includes compositions by 20th and 21st-century authors who created live electronic music, along with electroacoustic improvisations (algorithmic and under direct performer control), and collaborative music-making over the internet. LENS’ repertoire (for now) consists of compositions of indeterminism/"non-idiomatic improvisation," as well as drone, processual, and intuitive music. Thus, LENS’ music seeks to implement principles of openness in the operation of this type of chamber ensemble, both in relation to the musical score and towards participants in the creation of the sound flow.