Robert Laidlow
@robertlaidlow.bsky.social
Composer // interested in creativity, computers, astro/particle physics, video games, birdsong // senior fellow King's College London Music Dept
robertlaidlow.co.uk
robertlaidlow.co.uk
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January 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM
just sent out my January newsletter! news, performances, talks etc coming up
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pleased to see Bandcamp making some effort to protect its users from the monotonous, time-consuming, slog of trying to work out what's (not) human art
Hopefully, this policy is curated by humans and won't negatively affect the many artists experimenting creatively with machine learning in cool ways
Hopefully, this policy is curated by humans and won't negatively affect the many artists experimenting creatively with machine learning in cool ways
in a refreshing change of pace, both bandcamp and games workshop announced this week that they've banned AI to varying extents. these stances are crucial during a time when AI is being rammed down our throats at every turn, and some people are starting to accept it
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
pleased to see Bandcamp making some effort to protect its users from the monotonous, time-consuming, slog of trying to work out what's (not) human art
Hopefully, this policy is curated by humans and won't negatively affect the many artists experimenting creatively with machine learning in cool ways
Hopefully, this policy is curated by humans and won't negatively affect the many artists experimenting creatively with machine learning in cool ways
AMAZING first performance of "Exoplanets" by @lporchestra.bsky.social this weekend. Huge thanks to all the players, conductor Ed Gardner, my scientific collaborators and interlocutors and the many friends and family who came to see it. Next performance in Basel (with added lasers/light show!)
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
AMAZING first performance of "Exoplanets" by @lporchestra.bsky.social this weekend. Huge thanks to all the players, conductor Ed Gardner, my scientific collaborators and interlocutors and the many friends and family who came to see it. Next performance in Basel (with added lasers/light show!)
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Last night I had the pleasure of attending the world premier of The Exoplanets, by composer @robertlaidlow.bsky.social , done by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall. It was a smash hit, thrilling and beautifully executed. To me, it was evocative of a very big Universe with lots
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the world premier of The Exoplanets, by composer @robertlaidlow.bsky.social , done by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall. It was a smash hit, thrilling and beautifully executed. To me, it was evocative of a very big Universe with lots
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This weekend we headed to London for the world premiere of @robertlaidlow.bsky.social’s #Exoplanet suite. The London Philharmonic Orchestra were on fine form bring the amazing worlds we study to life. So grateful to have been a tiny part of the journey. Check out Rob describing the piece 👇 #sciart
In this video I explain how @stellarplanet.bsky.social and @climatebook.bsky.social research into these classes of planets inspired and informed some of the music.
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Bloch | Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This weekend we headed to London for the world premiere of @robertlaidlow.bsky.social’s #Exoplanet suite. The London Philharmonic Orchestra were on fine form bring the amazing worlds we study to life. So grateful to have been a tiny part of the journey. Check out Rob describing the piece 👇 #sciart
Holst's planets suite may have its famous "Jupiter" and "Neptune", but my new "Exoplanets" for @lporchestra.bsky.social has HOT Jupiters and SUB Neptunes 🪐🪐🪐 (Saturday 29th at 7.30pm!)
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
Robert Laidlow on Exoplanets
YouTube video by London Philharmonic Orchestra
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Holst's planets suite may have its famous "Jupiter" and "Neptune", but my new "Exoplanets" for @lporchestra.bsky.social has HOT Jupiters and SUB Neptunes 🪐🪐🪐 (Saturday 29th at 7.30pm!)
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
Hugely appreciate this vital support for a massive project with Peter Brathwaite for 2027 exploring some profoundly challenging topics through new music, archival research and interactive and adaptive music technology. Look forward to sharing more soon
We are delighted to announce almost £50,000 of grants awarded through the RPS Thea Musgrave Fund, supporting composers and performers dedicated to contemporary music. You can find out more about this year's grants recipients here: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne... (1/4)
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Hugely appreciate this vital support for a massive project with Peter Brathwaite for 2027 exploring some profoundly challenging topics through new music, archival research and interactive and adaptive music technology. Look forward to sharing more soon
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OUT NOW - @philharmonia Composers' Academy Volume 8
💿 featuring specially commissioned works by the participants of the Philharmonia’s 2024/25 Composers’ Academy programme
💿 music by #ElifKarlidag #SarahLianneLewis #soosanlolavar
Buy/Listen now 🔗
💿 featuring specially commissioned works by the participants of the Philharmonia’s 2024/25 Composers’ Academy programme
💿 music by #ElifKarlidag #SarahLianneLewis #soosanlolavar
Buy/Listen now 🔗
Philharmonia Orchestra - Philharmonia Composers' Academy, Vol. 8
Go to Philharmonia Orchestra - Philharmonia Composers' Academy, Vol. 8.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
OUT NOW - @philharmonia Composers' Academy Volume 8
💿 featuring specially commissioned works by the participants of the Philharmonia’s 2024/25 Composers’ Academy programme
💿 music by #ElifKarlidag #SarahLianneLewis #soosanlolavar
Buy/Listen now 🔗
💿 featuring specially commissioned works by the participants of the Philharmonia’s 2024/25 Composers’ Academy programme
💿 music by #ElifKarlidag #SarahLianneLewis #soosanlolavar
Buy/Listen now 🔗
Having a wonderful time with Stephen Rinker at BBC Philharmonic HQ mixing my TECHNO-UTOPIA which we recorded in July. Some rarely-seen) instrument tracks in this piece including "stacco", "ROLI" and "big bit of wood". Steve is a genius - it sounds brilliant
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Having a wonderful time with Stephen Rinker at BBC Philharmonic HQ mixing my TECHNO-UTOPIA which we recorded in July. Some rarely-seen) instrument tracks in this piece including "stacco", "ROLI" and "big bit of wood". Steve is a genius - it sounds brilliant
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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.
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.
29 Nov - conducted by Edward Gardner, sharing a programme with Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Bloch and Rachmaninov.
Hello 2025/26! 🤩
Our new season of concerts in London, Brighton and Eastbourne is here for you to explore ✨ lpo.org.uk/the-london-p...
Our new season of concerts in London, Brighton and Eastbourne is here for you to explore ✨ lpo.org.uk/the-london-p...
October 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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 😊
We're looking forward to hearing the Piatti Quartet at Little Missenden on the afternoon of 5th October. We're offering a discount if you book for both concerts. Full details here
www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...
www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...
2025 Programme | Little Missenden Festival
The Little Missenden Festival has an unbroken tradition of high-quality music-making in a unique Buckinghamshire village setting.
www.little-missenden.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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?
We've reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! I talked with @aussiastronomer.bsky.social about where things go from here. (A great graphic by @unamandita.bsky.social visualizes the amazing jumps in planet finds since the first ones were confirmed in the 1990s.)
Want to Get Away? NASA Now Offers More Than 6,000 Alien Worlds to Daydream About
It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows
www.scientificamerican.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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
August 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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...
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
July 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
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 😍
July 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I asked for a large sheet of metal for this piece but this really takes the biscuit
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
June 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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!
May 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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 💎🔬
May 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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...
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...
Cafe OTO → AI IS… ALL IN THE MIND OF JENNIFER WALSHE, Tuesday 13 May 2025, 7.30pm
In the second of three events hosted by The Wire magazine that look at the impact of AI on music making, composer Jennifer Walshe gives a talk and performance based on her new manifesto 13 Ways Of Loo...
www.cafeoto.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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...
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.
29 Nov - conducted by Edward Gardner, sharing a programme with Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Bloch and Rachmaninov.
Hello 2025/26! 🤩
Our new season of concerts in London, Brighton and Eastbourne is here for you to explore ✨ lpo.org.uk/the-london-p...
Our new season of concerts in London, Brighton and Eastbourne is here for you to explore ✨ lpo.org.uk/the-london-p...
April 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.
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...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
Cafe OTO → AI IS… ALL IN THE MIND OF JENNIFER WALSHE, Tuesday 13 May 2025, 7.30pm
In the second of three events hosted by The Wire magazine that look at the impact of AI on music making, composer Jennifer Walshe gives a talk and performance based on her new manifesto 13 Ways Of Loo...
www.cafeoto.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
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!
We had a brilliant day at St Silas Kentish Town last week recording ‘Gravity’ by @robertlaidlow.bsky.social
with the fabulous @piattiquartet.bsky.social
The recording session was made possible with support from our Core Funders and @doricoofficial.bsky.social
with the fabulous @piattiquartet.bsky.social
The recording session was made possible with support from our Core Funders and @doricoofficial.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
more info www.robertlaidlow.co.uk/events
March 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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
more info www.robertlaidlow.co.uk/events
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.
March 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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.