Laptop orchestras and such on YouTube

A while ago I mentioned an article on laptop orchestras. I'd meant to check some of them out some time, and the other day I finally got around to browsing through YouTube to see what I could see. Here are a few items that turned up. I won't try to play music critic except to say that the style tends heavily toward "electronic" "modern" music -- more abstract soundscapes than beats and chord progressions.

• Here's Princeton's Plork in DC, with a flautist.
• Here's a laptop orchestra in Japan with Ko Ishikawa. It reminds me of some of the demos that came with CSound.
• Here's an edgier composition from the Moscow Laptop Orchestra, incorporating a video component
• This piece by Stanford's Slork makes interesting use of a Wii controller (I wish they'd come up with a better title, though).
• Here's the Berlin Laptop Orchestra lifting a visual from the Spinal Tap movie.

Interestingly, I didn't find anything for the Worldscape Laptop Orchestra that inspired the original post. However, I did find some performances that, while not involving laptops, were clearly in the same vein of using computers and consumer electronics to make music:

• Here is the Modified Toy Orchestra playing, well, modified toys. If you dig around, you can find how-tos and links to a whole subculture of "circuit bending".
• You may have seen the famous iBand clip featuring two iPhones and what looks to me like a DS.
• And finally, here's turntablist DJ Kentaro jamming with Kenoshita Shinichi on Tsugaru-shamisen.