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TECHNO-UTOPIA

Tom Service presents a new work by Robert Laidlow, co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ahead of next week's BBC-wide focus on AI, Tom Service presents the work of composer Robert Laidlow, co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA is the first orchestral piece to use embedded AI instruments and draws on thousands of hours of recordings from the orchestra's archive.

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Music Played

  • Hermeto Pascoal

    Quarteto de Flautas: III (Cheguei, cheguei, cheguei, cheguei!)

    Performer: Aline Gonçalves. Performer: Eduardo Neves. Performer: Carlos Malta. Performer: Andrea Ernest Dias.
    • Obra Viva de Hermeto Pascoal - Vol. 1 Flautas.
    • Rocinante.
    • 12.

  • Bekah Simms

    metamold

    Ensemble: Red Note Ensemble.

  • James Weeks

    Natural State

    Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Singer: Rebecca Lea.
    • The New Winter Songbook.
    • Convivium Records.
    • 11.

  • Karen Power

    Language, Land, Sea (extract)

    Performer: Karen Power. Singer: Loré Lixenberg.
    • Language, Land, Sea.
    • Arts Council Ireland.
    • 3.

  • Robert Laidlow

    TECHNO-UTOPIA

    Performer: Zubin Kanga. Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic. Conductor: Jack Sheen.

  • Jan-Bas Bollen

    Floating Island

    Performer: Saskia Lankhoorn. Performer: Anton van Houten. Singer: Elaine Mitchener.

  • Andrew Greenwald

    A Thing Made Whole (IV)

    Ensemble: Distractfold Ensemble.
    • for Distractfold.
    • dFolds.
    • 2.

  • Ben Nobuto

    Hope Spiral

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Ensemble: Brother Tree Sound String Quartet.
    • NMC Extended Play - Jerwood Series.
    • NMC.
    • 1.

  • Thanos Chrysakis

    Carved Continuum

    Performer: Wilfrido Terrazas.
    • VITA MORGANA.
    • Aural Terrains.
    • 4.

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  • Yesterday22:30
    BBC Radio 3

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