Qubit Echoes: Quantum Computer Music (concert duration: ∼ 80 min)
Description: This event explores the field of Quantum Computer Music, where new emerging quantum technologies are being integrated with artistic creation. In Qubit Echoes, we will have an immersive experience and travel across analog, digital, and quantum media. It presents talk-demonstrations and a concert featuring artists that explore different approaches on connecting quantum algorithms with live coding, audio sampling, telematics, video mapping, and multimedia performances.
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Moth Quantum will demonstrate how they develop tools able to encode and decode audio files in a quantum circuit, as well as how to use quantum computing to generate new music. Additional frameworks and methodologies developed by researchers at Moth, Cyprus Institute, DESY, University of Plymouth, and CEIS20 will enable the use of quantum algorithms in the live musical concert. Particularly, we highlight the use of the ‘quantumaudio‘ package, an early-research computational tool able to encode and decode audio samples from a quantum computer.
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Tragouin tou Diheni (Polymeric 1) – by Spyros Kallivokas (2024; dur: 5 min)
for VQH and Bouzouki
Performed by Andreas Athenodorou
(Description is same as above)
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ReVeR (short version) – by Itabora Puy and Dino Vicente (2023; dur: 7 min)
for live coding, quantumaudio, and analog synthesizers
Performed by Paulo Itaborai and Dino Vicente
The brilliant musical instrument constructor Walter Smetak (1913–1984) used to name his own creations as “Sonic Plastics”. When describing this term, he concludes that the musical instrument is nothing but a route, an Itinerary of Sound. In ReVeR, we establish an intricate telematic connection to Brazil, where a waveform is encoded and decoded through a quantum circuit, and then travels digitally to Brazil to drive analog oscillators used in a 50-year-old Moog 15 modular synthesizer. We hence establish a Quantum Itinerary of Sound, where the sounds travel through quantum, digital, analog, and mechanical media, revisiting the origins of electronic music aesthetics.
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DesTrair – by Dino Vicente and Itabora Puy (2024; dur: 9 min)
for quantum live coding, quantumaudio, and analog synthesizers
Performed by Itabora Puy, Dino Vicente
In this piece we invert the relationship of the Quantum Itinerary of Sound. Instead of measuring quantum information to drive the analog synths, we now use analog media to produce information and sounds in Cyprus. Based on Paulo Leminsky’s poetry, we use one of his main lemmas: “Distraídos Venceremos” (“We will win when we get distracted”). The work explores the notion that when observing (measuring) a quantum system in superposition, it collapses into a single state. When there is focus, there is definition—but also loss of information. When we stop looking, when we get distracted, the system resumes with its quantum behaviour.
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Holy Writ – by Cephas Teom and Itabora Puy (2024; dur: 10 min)
for VQH and ZenQ
Performed by Cephas Teom and Itabora Puy