🕚 03 June 2026 19:30 — 21:00
📍 The College Chapel, Strand Campus, King’s College London

With Dr Robert Laidlow, Dr Stephanie Lamprea and Dr David Zucchi.

Messages, Memories, Memes brings together two of the UK’s foremost experimental music performers in a programme exploring myth, fragmentation and playful exploration of sonic storytelling. It features two substantial musical works by King’s composer Robert Laidlow for solo performer and electronic soundscapes.

Post-Singularity Songs is a 25-minute song cycle, setting to music creation myths and love songs from an imagined post-human world. Stephanie Lamprea dives in and out of athletic vocal performance and electronic textures, interacting with her own voice while telling the story of the mythical navigator Pyron. Its text, curated by the composer, draws from conversations with custom-made language models on the topic of creation myths and poetry from the 16th to 19th centuries. Stephanie Lamprea released this collaboration on her recent album Ecstatic Visions, and this performance will be the first in London of that final version.

content is music about the Internet, for saxophonist and electronics. Like the Internet, you can’t keep up with it. It absorbs everything it touches. Nearly everything in the piece is a reference to something else; many of those references are themselves references. It is 100% a joke and simultaneously deadly serious. We hear the reaction before we hear the thing itself. AI-generated memes imagine a world of good-natured disagreements. This is interrupted music, its flow atomised by sponsors desperate to connect authentically with your bank account. Breaking news is pushed directly to your ears. We join stories halfway through, scroll back to understand the start, still don’t quite get the joke. Two sides of the coin are community and loneliness. The music is a feed that is completely cut up, could go on forever; at some point, you just need to pull the plug.

The two works will be introduced by Robert Laidlow. The two very different approaches to storytelling will be explored, and the role of live, interactive, technology in facilitating these approaches revealed.

Spoken Introduction – Robert Laidlow (15 minutes)
Post-Singularity Songs – Stephanie Lamprea (25 minutes)
Content – David Zucchi (30 minutes)

The event is free but booking is required. Please reserve your free ticket and find more information here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/messages-memories-memes