BBC Philharmonic 2024-25 Season TECHNO-UTOPIA – AI and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Hear the world premiere of Robert Laidlow’s new work TECHNO-UTOPIA, a genre defining piece for piano, orchestra and new AI live-processed instruments.

Robert Laidlow is at the forefront of exploring the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in orchestral composition, challenging conventional methods of music creation and performance. In TECHNO-UTOPIA, he experiments with a live-processed piano, synthesiser, and completely new live-processed AI instruments, performed and controlled by soloist Zubin Kanga. The piece uses AI as an expressive instrument, trained with the radio broadcast archive of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to explore music in the algorithmic age, the sonic possibilities of new technology, and what separates humans from machines.