We Are Robots presents: Future and Innovation of Music

16 August 2017 - Press release

We Are Robots presents: Future and Innovation of Music is the festival bringing the industry together, spanning over four days with eclectic live performances, label collaborations, interactive workshops, exclusive and never seen before sound installations and much more. Today We Are Robots announce a brand new wave of partners between the 2nd - 5th November 2017, including Mute Records founder Daniel Miller plus Little Cub, The Penelopes, Pioneer DJ, Moog and many more. We Are Robots presents: Future and Innovation of Music will deliver an insight into the next decade of musical discovery and exploration alongside a four-day celebration of the sector's boundary breakers. For more information visit: http://www.wearerobots.org.uk/

Daniel Miller needs little introduction. Founder and producer of seminal record label Mute Records, Miller's influence and development spawned lauded aliases with The Normal and Silicon Teens as well as offering the catalyst for Depeche Mode, Swans, Erasure, Moby and Goldfrapp and many more. Meanwhile the veteran has played a string of high-profile DJ sets at the likes of Sonar Festival, Amsterdam's ADE, IMS, London's Electronic Arts Festival, Boiler Room Berlin and more, now preparing to grace the decks at Old Truman Brewery in November.

Record label and record store Rough Trade host the Thursday with a very special guest, whilst new music legend Chris Hawkins of BBC Radio 6Music & BBC Radio 2 takes over Friday with a series of breakthrough talent at Old Truman Brewery’s 93 Feet East including Domino's South London trio Little Cub, Parisian cool kids The Penelopes and MALKA. Hawkins will also be hosting the student discussion panels on Friday 3^rdNovember.  

Old Truman's Brewery iconic Boiler House venue will also play host on Friday night to a diverse roster of groundbreaking electronic talent with acclaimed producer and Rinse France's Manaré plus rising industrial techno star NSDOS gracing We Are Robots with a live set. Future and Innovation of Music will answer as it embarks its voyage of sonic discovery across the vast exhibition space of East London's Old Truman Brewery. Whether a student, music industry professional or beginner to production, We Are Robots will experiment and educate for all levels of expertise. 

Across Thursday and Friday, We Are Robots invite a wealth of talent for a series of panels and discussions covering big-hitter topics of music business, PR, marketing, artist management not to mention the future of music radio production and more. With award winning programmers, mixers, sound engineers including Phelan Kane, Sean Mcghee, Knives at Sea not to mention Daniel Miller himself, it's not one to be missed.

We Are Robots will also become the home of never-before-seen sound installations, available for free, conceived by a host of groundbreaking sound artists including lauded sound artist Yuri Suzuki, previously exhibited at the Barbican, Tate Modern not to mention celebrated pendulum project in association with Audi and more. Then there's creative coder Tim Murray Browne, the mind behind sonic sculptures including wearable instruments for dancers ('The Serendiptichord'), a 20 minute score imitating the algorithms of swimmers ('Music To Swim To') and a frozen moment of music designed for listeners in space ('Anamorphic Composition 1'), the anticipation builds for yet another exciting new direction Browne is planning for We Are Robots. 

We Are Robots offers the chance to learn and hone the craft of music making with the likes of Ableton, Music Hackspace, Moog, Pioneer DJ, Hackoustic, Arturia, Native Instruments, Genelec, Roland andSerato and London’s most exciting music tech university, Point Blank, who will be partnering with We Are Robots for seminars and will be on hand to guide students to their full music potential. Stay tuned for further announcements very soon.