[Book] Advances in Quantum Computer Music [World Scientific] (2025)

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Advances in Quantum Computer Music (Jan 2025)

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The modern music industry depends critically on computers. The development of conventional digital computing technology for music has been progressing in tandem with the evolution of computers since the 1950s. Therefore, future developments in quantum computing are most likely to impact the way in which musicians will create, perform, and conduct research.

Classical computers manipulate information represented in terms of binary digits, each of, which can be equal to 1 (on) or 0 (off). They work with microprocessors made up of billions of tiny switches that are activated by electric signals. In contrast, a quantum computer deals with information in terms of quantum bits (qubits), which can operate at the subatomic level. In other words, they directly work in the realm of quantum physics. Since they can run algorithms that are non-tractable to run on digital computers, quantum computers are surfacing as a promising disruptive technology.

Advances in Quantum Computer Music collates a comprehensive collection of chapters by pioneers of emerging interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of quantum computing and music. Together, these pioneers hope to anticipate and prototype the unprecedented new uses for this technology that are bound to emerge from their cutting-edge research.

1. Chapter 1: Sonifications of Quantum Superpositions: Methods and Musical Applications
   Walker Smith, Dmitri Volkov, and Alex Alani
   Pages:1–38
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0001

2. Chapter 2: Quantum Feedback Delay Networks
   Davide Rocchesso
   Pages:39–61
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0002

3. Chapter 3: Exploring Quantum Phenomena through Sound: Strategies, Challenges, and Insights
   Reiko Yamada, Eloy Piñol, Samuele Grandi, Jakub Zakrzewski, and Maciej Lewenstein
   Pages:63–92
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0003

4. Chapter 4: Quantum Memory: Measuring the Degree of Non-Markovianity of Orchestral Music
   Maria Mannone and Omar Costa Hamido
   Pages:93–115
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0004

5. Chapter 5: An Introduction to Quantum Probability Amplitude Modulation (QPAM) from a Compositional Perspective
   Eren Utku
   Pages:117–132
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0005

6. Chapter 6: Investigating the Usefulness of Quantum Blur in Music
   Marcel Pfaffhauser and James Wootton
   Pages:133–156
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0006

7. Chapter 7: Qubit Instrumentation of Entanglement
   Mark Carney
   Pages:157–183
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0007

8. Chapter 8: Developing a Framework for Sonifying Variational Quantum Algorithms: Implications for Music Composition
   Paulo Vitor Itaboraí, Peter Thomas, Arianna Crippa, Karl Jansen, Tim Schwägerl, and María Aguado Yáñez
   Pages:185–237
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0008

9. Chapter 9: Music AI with Quantum Reservoir Computing
   Eduardo Reck Miranda and Hari Vignesh Shaji
   Pages:239–274
   https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800186_0009