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The four projects are:

• The Music Futures Lab – this bespoke facility will bring
together music businesses and musicians from across the

creative and digital sectors to reimagine the way we all create,
consume and experience music in the future. This new R&D
lab would be the first of its kind in the UK, taking advantage of
the opportunities AI and VR brings, and would build on – and

future-proof – the incredible creative and digital sector which
the city already boasts.

• MusicFutures Cluster – a mix of academic and private sector
bodies creating the talent and training pipeline to make the
most of the facilities which the music lab will offer. A Creative

Cluster has already been established to kickstart this R&D in
bringing together the music and creative industries.

• Immersive Liverpool – this fully immersive audio and visual
visitor attraction will reimagine the way that audiences
experience the music they love. A world first, this attraction

will offer a rotating set of experience ‘residencies’ with the
biggest music artists. Liverpool City Council is undergoing a
site selection process and is in partnership with industry

leaders to help develop the scheme.

• Recording and Rehearsal space – this space would become a
new rehearsal home for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra and a leading national facility for emerging and
established artists. This would be the only UK studio of its
kind and capacity outside London – “the Abbey Road of the

North” – and as well as boosting the city’s ability to offer
recording facilities for musicians, TV, film and gaming, it
would also provide first-class training, performance and

rehearsal spaces all year-round for young people across the
region.

Mayor Rotheram revealed the ambitious plans at a Creative UK
event as part of the Labour Party conference in the city.