“QUBISM is an album that challenges our conventional understanding of music, introducing listeners to a world where technology and art exist in a harmonious and unpredictable relationship. Eduardo Reck Miranda’s pioneering work with quantum computers marks an exciting new frontier in the music world…”
“…the computer music professor engages in a call-and-response improvisation with the IBM Quantum Eagle, a 127-qubit quantum processor at IBM’s research headquarters in New York: a violin plays a solo, then the computer listens and responds with a synthesized riff of its own.”
“In the recording below, which appears on the album’s vinyl edition, you can hear the violin solo start at 4:15, and the computer’s saxophone-like response from 4:33 to 5:23.”
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“ This album is not simply a collection of pieces, but a sound laboratory where the invisible mechanics of quantum computing becomes the muse.“
“Through QUBISM , Eduardo Reck Miranda offers a symbiosis between man and machine, an introspective work that pushes to redefine what music can be in the quantum age.”
QUBISM features compositions created with quantum computers. It results from Miranda’s research into harnessing emergent quantum computing technology to compose.
>> EDUARDO RECK MIRANDA’S INTRODUCTION TO QUBISM (Digital version) <<
While having learned classical musical instruments since childhood, my preferred tool for composing is the computer. I have been delving into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and innovative computing methods for composition for some time now. An intelligently programmed computer can collaborate in the creative process, offering fresh insights and ideas beyond my own.
Lumina Grooves #1, #2 and #3 are three renderings of a multifaceted piece commissioned for the festival Komplementārās pretrunas (Complementary Contradictions, in English), which took place in Riga, Latvia, in 2023.
I developed with my team a piece of software for a photonic quantum computer to deconstruct a given piece of music and deduce algorithms to reconstruct it from its bare bones. To begin with, I wrote a short composition scored for a chamber ensemble. It was in a minimalist style, inspired by the work of American composer Philip Glass. Then, I inputted the piece into the photonic software for processing.
Every time I ask the photonic computer to produce a new composition, the results will always be distinct. This is due to the statistical nature of the deduced algorithms and the inherent stochasticity of quantum computers. Metaphorically, it is as if Lumina Grooves lives in a multiverse with many observable versions.
Spinnings and Swirling Qubits are live recordings played with the Q1Synth instrument. Q1Synth is a software sound synthesiser that makes sounds with a qubit. The qubit is visualised on the computer monitor as a sphere. A continuously changing sound is produced while rotating the sphere with a peripheral, such as a mouse. At specific times, Q1Synth communicates with a quantum computer on the cloud to process the qubit. This results in an unpredictable dynamic sound.
For the rendition of Spinnings, three performers played a Q1Synth each using wireless gloves and rings. For Swirling Qubits, a performer donning a sleeve made with smart textiles played the piece with choreography information relayed wirelessly to four Q1Synth instruments.
The piece Zeno 2.0 is for alto flute, bass clarinet and electronically synthesised sounds. I composed the score for the acoustic instruments manually, without the aid of a computer. I meticulously scored the production of multiphonics. I leveraged the alto flute and the bass clarinet, which are monophonic instruments, to produce two or more pitches simultaneously.
Quantum computers were used in Zeno 2.0 to synthesise the electronic part and to produce responses to the alto flute and bass clarinet during the performance.
The electronic part for Zeno 2.0 was crafted in the studio beforehand for playback on the stage. Conversely, the responsorial interaction between the instruments and a quantum computer happened in real time. A music AI system listened to both instruments and used quantum mechanics to produce musical responses during the performance. The quantum computer acted as a buddy musician interacting with the performers, as if in a contemporary jazz-like gig.
>> EDUARDO RECK MIRANDA’S INTRODUCTION TO QUBISM (Vinyl version) <<
The composition Qubism, for chamber orchestra and electronic sounds, comprises three tracks entitled Observe, Interact, and Revisit. Here I programmed a quantum computer to generate data patterns, which I manually converted into a musical score. I also synthesised the electronic sounds using these patterns.
It is fascinating that a quantum computer enabled me to design arrangements that produced unique timbres in Observe and Revisit. Although the second track may sound conventional compared to the others, Interact features moments where a quantum computer on the cloud responds to the violin during the performance. These responses, generated with quantum AI software, are heard on a synthesised saxophone and percussion.
Artwork, Design, Drawing by Mattia Travaglini Artworks
>> CURRENTLY VINYLS ARE NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE. THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE AT SPECIAL EVENTS <<
“Pushing Music’s Limits!”
“Qubism pulsates with a shrill, dissonant urgency,…”
“…the first ever album composed using AI and quantum computing technology…”
QUBISM, by Prof. Eduardo Reck Miranda will feature compositions created with Quantum Computers. This forward thinking work results from Miranda’s research into harnessing emergent quantum computing technology to compose.
Quantum Computers are still in development. Hence the release of QUBISM, a pioneering album illustrating how quantum computers can be leveraged to create music in different ways.
Shaping the future of music…
Supported by Moth Quantum https://mothquantum.com/
Artwork by Mattia Travaglini Artworks
“Tonylight made Lumanoide an infectious album in its dancing vein through its acidic, strident and sweet sounds. Flirting with house music and taking the form of a synonym for chiptune, the 8bit present here makes the listener even – and sometimes – have the impression of being inside the universe of video games.”
09.05.2024 || 8bit, Chiptune, Acid, Techno
Tonylight, a genuine master of the 8bit music scene, takes the advantage of his long-standing experience in the sound machines’ design and production within LEP (“Laboratorio Elettronico Popolare”), to constantly change his set-up to shape new tracks, always maintaining a characteristic pure analogue and instinctive approach in all his compositions.
“Lumanoide” sounds raw, acid and old-school, with unsettling dynamics and motorik rhythms. This latest album by Tonylight can be viewed as a fully-matured version of the previously produced albums that were almost entirely based on the use of Gameboy and Nanoloop. The creative verve is the same, but the sounds are full-bodied, deep, intense, and obtained by exploiting a recently produced Danish groove-box to its limits. Lumanoide is inspired by the unforgettable nights in the clubs of the 90s, and all tracks are 120 bpm, in homage to the Marco Dionigi’s “slow motion” djsets.
The name of the album comes from “Lumanoise”, one of the synths produced by LEP, of which Tonylight is one of the founders.
Credits:
Music by Antonio Cavadini (aka Tonylight)
Cover Art by Danilo Vadis
““Electrical Emotions” tiene una esencia muy singular, se mantiene fiel al estilo clásico del género y regala una experiencia como ninguna otra….”
“…un viaje eléctrico que desearás experimentar con el cuerpo! “
“…. una melodía enérgica hace que la atmosfera se oscurezca y se llene de asombrosos destellos sonoros….”
“Un Ep che si inabissa nella contemporaneità liquida, dove macchina e uomo si fondono…”
“…plasticità artistico-creativa attraverso un prodotto per niente catalogabile, privo di confinamenti, per sondare lo spazio dell’oggi così drammaticamente schiuso e spaventosamente pulsante.”
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24.09.2021 || electronic, electro, ambient, techno
MODULAR CUISINE is an event, a vinyl, a charity auction.
During the event, our artists “interpret” local food with live exhibitions. An exclusive vinyl is jointly released, and during the event uniquely-painted copies are exhibited in the framework of a charity auction.
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