{"id":23986,"date":"2026-07-17T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/robert-laidlow-reality-eaters-album-review\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:37:32","slug":"robert-laidlow-reality-eaters-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/robert-laidlow-reality-eaters-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC Philharmonic\/Havlat\/Kaziboni\/Piatti Quartet<br \/>(NMC)<\/strong><br \/>Einstein\u2019s field equations, Newton\u2019s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow\u2019s ambitious orchestral works<\/p>\n<p>Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable, even if the core concepts are highly complex.<\/p>\n<p>Warp, a terse, 12-minute piano concerto, proposes a musical solution to Einstein\u2019s field equations as the intrepid Joseph Havlat boldly goes where no pianist has gone before amid the distorting fabric of orchestral space-time. Strident orchestral lines spiral ever upwards, stretching instruments to their limits, while the piano maintains its course towards a serene conclusion. Handsomely recorded, the BBC Philharmonic and Vimbayi Kaziboni offer vibrantly detailed support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/17\/robert-laidlow-reality-eaters-album-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/de996d8c5e81d6a1208206745a33ed18e2764d4c\/46_0_1695_1356\/master\/1695.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=885312acdff74ea60f4c02fca0b64709\" title=\"Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review\" \/>BBC Philharmonic\/Havlat\/Kaziboni\/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein\u2019s field equations, Newton\u2019s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow\u2019s ambitious orchestral works<br \/>\nRobert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable, even if the core concepts are highly complex.<br \/>\nWarp, a terse, 12-minute piano concerto, proposes a musical solution to Einstein\u2019s field equations as the intrepid Joseph Havlat boldly goes where no pianist has gone before amid the distorting fabric of orchestral space-time. Strident orchestral lines spiral ever upwards, stretching instruments to their limits, while the piano maintains its course towards a serene conclusion. Handsomely recorded, the BBC Philharmonic and Vimbayi Kaziboni offer vibrantly detailed support. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Philharmonic\/Havlat\/Kaziboni\/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein\u2019s field equations, Newton\u2019s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow\u2019s ambitious orchestral works Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/robert-laidlow-reality-eaters-album-review\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}