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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra to explore music in the algorithmic age, the sonic possibilities of new technology, and what separates humans from machines.