Robert Laidlow incorporates how computers "think" about music into his creative process, seeking disruption to question foundational axioms of music-making.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, "Reality Eaters," refers to black holes and AI as "hungry entities" that consume our realities, whether data or the fabric of the universe.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Robert Laidlow is interested in navigating to the "strangest corners" of latent spaces—mathematical spaces of possibilities—to find music.
Composer Biography
As part of his PhD research, Robert Laidlow was a composer in association with the BBC Philharmonic, for whom he composed two works featured on this album.
Recording & Production
NMC Recordings, the label for this album, is a charity dedicated to recording and promoting contemporary classical music by UK and Irish composers, ensuring works are permanently available.
Composer Biography
All the music on this album was composed by Robert Laidlow during his PhD studies (2018-2022) at the Royal Northern College of Music's Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM).
Album & Artwork
The album art, created by Robert Laidlow's wife Natalie, represents a latent space with 4,595 points, one for each second of audio, grouped by a machine learning algorithm.
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