Robert Laidlow

RPS Composer @robertlaidlow.bsky.social's cosmic tone poem 'Exoplanets' will receive its first performance by the @lporchestra.bsky.social on 29 November at @southbankcentre.bsky.social. A collaboration with astrophysicists, Robert translates their inspiring research into musical ideas.

This amazingly high quality music festival is just up the road from me. Well worth a visit for the astonishingly beautiful venue alone let alone the fantastic music. And if you come on the right day you'll find me manning the bar 😊

My new piece "Exoplanets" for @lporchestra.bsky.social may not have 6000 movements but I can promise I was aiming for some out of this world music on 29th November at the Royal festival hall 😊 see you there?

In the studio in Glasgow recording my Post-Singularity Songs with @slampreasoprano.bsky.social and Alistair MacDonald 😁 coming to an album near you in 2026

Nice to be asked to contribute to British Council's timely new publication "Why Technology Needs Artists". In the company of some amazing people ☺️

www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

Loved working with Zubin Kanga, Jack Sheen and the BBC Philharmonic last week on TECHNO-UTOPIA - concerto for piano, synths and embedded AI instruments. Look forward to sharing the recording soon. The orchestra were such a nice bunch 😍

I asked for a large sheet of metal for this piece but this really takes the biscuit

Rogue planets!

Had such a fun time running through the solo part for TECHNO-UTOPIA with Zubin Kanga today. Can you tell I listened to prog rock as a teenager

Having a great time in Basel talking about my work with Exoplanets and Music at the Space stage of Fantasy Basel comiccon!

Extremely fun and inspiring to be shown round the diamond light source synchrotron (particle accelerator) this morning 💎🔬

TONIGHT -

Looking forward to this talk and to demo-ing TECHNO-UTOPIA at Cafe Oto with co-conspirator Zubin Kanga and hearing @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social talk and perform

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...

My new 25 minute piece, "Exoplanets", just announced for the @lporchestra.bsky.social season - can't wait to hear it! Expect some cosmic experiments with the orchestra 🪐

29 Nov - conducted by Edward Gardner, sharing a programme with Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Bloch and Rachmaninov.

May 13 - talking/performing at Cafe Oto on my new concerto TECHNO-UTOPIA for piano, synths and embedded AI instruments, alongside Zubin Kanga @cyborgsoloists.bsky.social and @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social. Come along!

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...

Sure - I'm on a research fellowship atm so might be relevant. I'll dm you my email

Hi David you're welcome to email me if I can be any help on this

This was such a brilliant day, can't wait to share the recording. Big thanks to everyone at @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @piattiquartet.bsky.social @doricoofficial.bsky.social!

wow - somehow seem to be giving two talks on Exoplanets and Music in May with phenomenal astrophysicists and musicians! Lucky me!! Catch me at Oxford May Music or at the Swiss Comic-Con Fantasy Basel (which last year had attendance of 90,000?!)

more info www.robertlaidlow.co.uk/events

It's called the stacco, developed by my friend Nicola Privato at the Intelligent Instruments Lab. It controls a set of RAVE models we trained on BBC radio recordings made by the Philharmonic. It's very performable which I like while still keeping the fun and volatility of machine learning

Zubin will be performing on piano, synths, and new intelligent instruments which navigate orchestral archives. We are really excited to bring this to your eardrums in July (Manchester conducted by Jack Sheen) and 2026 (Berlin), and on BBC Radio 3!

Excited to announce “TECHNO-UTOPIA”, my new concerto for Zubin Kanga commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA explores memory, magic, ruthless algorithms, and what makes music more than just data.

So fun to perform this again! Watch this space for studio recording

looking forward to this!! performance number 5 with Stephanie, I think. Looking forward to hearing about everyone's work on this topic at the symposium

Conference: AI and Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal Music An interdisciplinary symposium on AI and vocal music, with an immersive opera concert and social evening.

7 March: Singing @robertlaidlow.bsky.social 's Post Singularity Songs and Atzi Muramatsu / Alexandra Huang-Kokina's AI Kaidan: Yūrei (Ghost) of the AI Empire, for a symposium on AI & voice hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
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super - I'll try to remember to find that album. Would be nice to sit down and talk about music & birds next time I'm at the RCS! 🤓

(or has been blurred in the past I should say, I don't want to generalise)

tho the relationship with Western Classical is often blurred on commercial releases as they are usually supported by universities, but nonetheless it's definitely much less Western-focussed than, say, Messiaen

Hi Emily - are you familiar with the taonga puoro tradition from Aotearoa New Zealand - guessing you are? quite a deep relationship with birdsong; I also have an album somewhere at home which explores this exact thing and will dig it out. I think it was maybe on the Rattle label, but can't be sure

Photos Nikolaus Brade

Amazing photos from recent Berlin prem. of my text score "Four Elements" created as part of "Sound Vessels" where we control neural synthesis models by pouring liquids. My co-conspirator @federicovisi.bsky.social performing on vessels, Cosima Gerhardt cello and Alberto de Campo electronics