QUANTUM SOUNDS SYMPOSIUM

Quantum Sounds is a symposium in which public and ICFO community can gain knowledge and inspiration from some of the most recent research done in the interface between quantum physics and music composition, data sonification, interactive sound interface, sound programming and audio software development.

The symposium consists of a series of talks, lecture recitals (hybrid between lecture and performance) and Quantum Random Number Generator jam sessions.

In addition, the invitees will visit labs at ICFO and lead themed small group discussions with registered participants.

Symposium Venues:

Day 6 and 7 June the sessions will be hold at ICFO (Castelldefels)
Day 8 June the sessions will be hold at La Salle-Ramón Llull University and Hangar.org (Barcelona)
Confirmed Presenters:

Eduardo Reck Miranda, Paulo Itaboraí and Cephas Teom. Lecture-Concert “Tensorial Ripples”
Eli Fieldsteel. Lecture-Concert “LightMatrix: A Light-Sensitive Musical Control Interface”
James Weaver and Brian Ingmanson (IBM). Lecture-Concert  “Hilbert Space Deep House – Composing Electronic Dance Music with quantum states”
Rodney DuPlessis. Lecture-Concert “Composing with classical and quantum harmonic oscillators”
Spencer Topel and Florian Carle. Lecture-Concert “Reflections of the Quantum Realm: Superconducting Qubits and Variable Quantum Oscillator Design for Music Synthesis”
Angel Faraldo and Carlos Abellan. Joint Talk “Looped in the Sound of Photon”
Bob Coecke. Talk-Demonstration “Quantum-compositionality enabled musical composition”
James Harley (University of Guelph) and Marcin Halat (Violin). Lecture-Concert “Iannis Xenakis: Random Walks in Sound and Music”
Pannel Discussions:

Mónica Bello (Arts-CERN), Anna Sanpera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Oriol Saladrigues (Mixtur Festival). Panel Discussion #1 “Quantum Sounds? What are they?”
Reserbat-Plantey (CNRS-Chrea), Voldemārs Johansons (Sound Artist) and Yu Bi (qurv.tech). Panel Discussion #2 “Photons, Vibrations and Space”
Leticia Tarruell (ICFO), Klaus Molmer (Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen), Jose Manuel Berenguer (University of Barcelona). Panel Discussion #3 “Music and Quantum Computing”
Spencer Topel, Eoin Edward Phillips (La Salle-URL). Round Table Discussion #4: “Quantum future in the field of arts and humanities”
James Weaver (IBM), Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès (La Salle-URL). Round Table Discussion #5: “Quantum Computers meets the Internet of Things”
Organizers:

Dr. Reiko Yamada (ICFO)
Prof. Dr. Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO)
In collaboration with:

Dr. Osvaldo Jiménez Farías (La Salle-URL)
Dr. Jose Manuel Berenguer (University of Barcelona, Hangar.org)