Quantum Music Playground
Instructions / Tutorial: qisk.it/qmp
These slides at: https://slides.com/javafxpert/quantum-music-playground
- Playground for composing music using quantum states.
- Implemented as a Max for Live device in Ableton Live 11, and includes a MicroQiskit quantum simulator.
- Free, open source, Apache 2.0
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About James Weaver
IBM Quantum Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Developer / Author / Speaker
james.weaver@ibm.com
Brian and I will demonstrate:
- Quantum Music Playground's raison d'être
- A quick & dirty example arranged with QMP
- Creating EDM beats with QMP
- Adding a 17th century melody to EDM beats
- Playing with Quantum Fourier Transform
- A QMP composition by Hasan Khalid, et al
The Big Idea
Ascertain one (of many) ways to hear a quantum state, and create a device that may be used to compose music by manipulating a statevectors. Students of quantum computing would use this device as a fun and musical way to gain intuition about statevectors.
Collaborating with a Hilbert Space
QMP example inspired by music of Jean-Michel Jarre
Example clip: Four on the floor kick (bass) drum
Each step in the sequence on the right is a sixteenth note. Sound is produced when the measurement probability of a basis state is significant.
Example clip: Expressing pitch (or instrument) with phase
Each step in the sequence on the right is a sixteenth note. Sound is produced when the measurement probability of a basis state is significant.
Example from QMP Tutorial of expressing Canon in D
EDM Composition by Hasan Khalid of Algorism Music
Composed using Quantum Music Playground
Quantum Music Playground
In Hilbert space, no one can hear you scream. - Yakir Aharonov
Questions?
Check out tutorial for examples, including Indian Classical music: qisk.it/qmp