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"If you are interested in a more in-depth introduction to the emerging field of Quantum Computer Music, I recommend the book, Quantum Computer Music: Foundation

by Rochus 3y ago

"If you are interested in a more in-depth introduction to the emerging field of Quantum Computer Music, I recommend the book, Quantum Computer Music: Foundations, Methods and Advanced Concepts, published by Springer in 2022." https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13909-3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13909-3 By the end of the day just another source of (quasi) random numbers which are somehow interpreted as music, isn't it?

CrypticShift 3y ago
> random numbers which are somehow interpreted as music My initial reaction was similar. Nonetheless, I'm making an effort to embrace the diversity of what music can mean to different individuals. My only question to them is: are you genuinely moved by the music itself or do you "merely" intellectualize it? That being said, is this emerging field of Quantum Computer Music solely focused on generating random numbers? I must admit I only glanced through the article, so I wouldn't assert this definitively.
- Rochus 3y ago
  > I'm making an effort to embrace the diversity of what music can mean to different individuals... I'm a trained musician myself (see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1221 http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1221) and I have also been exploring algorithmic composition for many years. There is no issue with diversity of what music can mean. The issue is from my point of view, that a lot of effort is spent with different algorithmic concepts, but in the end, any area of the generated number range is arbitrarily mapped to MIDI notes. You can e.g. see that with the output of cellular automata (which are also used in the referenced book), where any random strip of the overall image is interpreted as notes. You could just as well have used a quasi-random generator. The use of cellular automata therefore brought no added value. > is this emerging field of Quantum Computer Music solely focused on generating random numbers? Whenever a new idea or technology became popular, a few resourceful people started making music with it. Now it's quantum computers. Over the years, many dissertations have been written that have not really brought any progress. I give transformer DNN a good chance, but good results are likely to be a few years away.
sporkl 3y ago
a lot of it does end up being that kind of thing, but not all. some of it’s kind of like how quantum math has been used to model (if I remember correctly) seismology or weather, and some of it’s about sonifying the entire quantum state, including superpositions (assuming no error/noise, the random part of quantum doesn’t happen until measurement, where superpositions are destroyed)
- Rochus 3y ago
  > some of it’s kind of like how quantum math has been used to model (if I remember correctly) seismology or weather, and some of it’s about sonifying the entire quantum state, including superpositions Well, the field of quantum computing is definitely important and very promising, but it has as little to do with music like the proportions in the movements of celestial bodies.
gexaha 3y ago
there also exist a more scientific term for such practice - "sonification"
- Rochus 3y ago
  > a more scientific term for such practice - "sonification" Sonification is a very useful concept, e.g. to make the blood flow audible in medical ultrasound. But this is not the same as algorithmic composition, which is the topic here.

by Rochus 3y ago

CrypticShift 3y ago

> random numbers which are somehow interpreted as music My initial reaction was similar. Nonetheless, I'm making an effort to embrace the diversity of what music can mean to different individuals. My only question to them is: are you genuinely moved by the music itself or do you "merely" intellectualize it? That being said, is this emerging field of Quantum Computer Music solely focused on generating random numbers? I must admit I only glanced through the article, so I wouldn't assert this definitively.

Rochus 3y ago
> I'm making an effort to embrace the diversity of what music can mean to different individuals... I'm a trained musician myself (see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1221 http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1221) and I have also been exploring algorithmic composition for many years. There is no issue with diversity of what music can mean. The issue is from my point of view, that a lot of effort is spent with different algorithmic concepts, but in the end, any area of the generated number range is arbitrarily mapped to MIDI notes. You can e.g. see that with the output of cellular automata (which are also used in the referenced book), where any random strip of the overall image is interpreted as notes. You could just as well have used a quasi-random generator. The use of cellular automata therefore brought no added value. > is this emerging field of Quantum Computer Music solely focused on generating random numbers? Whenever a new idea or technology became popular, a few resourceful people started making music with it. Now it's quantum computers. Over the years, many dissertations have been written that have not really brought any progress. I give transformer DNN a good chance, but good results are likely to be a few years away.

sporkl 3y ago

a lot of it does end up being that kind of thing, but not all. some of it’s kind of like how quantum math has been used to model (if I remember correctly) seismology or weather, and some of it’s about sonifying the entire quantum state, including superpositions (assuming no error/noise, the random part of quantum doesn’t happen until measurement, where superpositions are destroyed)

Rochus 3y ago
> some of it’s kind of like how quantum math has been used to model (if I remember correctly) seismology or weather, and some of it’s about sonifying the entire quantum state, including superpositions Well, the field of quantum computing is definitely important and very promising, but it has as little to do with music like the proportions in the movements of celestial bodies.

gexaha 3y ago

there also exist a more scientific term for such practice - "sonification"

Rochus 3y ago
> a more scientific term for such practice - "sonification" Sonification is a very useful concept, e.g. to make the blood flow audible in medical ultrasound. But this is not the same as algorithmic composition, which is the topic here.