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Beyond Digital Beats: Quantum Computers and the Future of Music

AI has been making music since the 1950s. Seventy years later, Frankensteinian robots have not replaced musicians. Musicians are still around. Possibly more so than ever. Still, Eduardo Reck Miranda believes that music technology is on the verge of a significant leap within the next decade. But not because of AI. This leap will be driven by a new type of computer: a quantum computer. 

PublishedApril 5, 2024
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Beyond Digital Beats: Quantum Computers and the Future of Music

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Eduardo R. Miranda

Eduardo Reck Miranda is a composer of electronic and contemporary concert music and has been developing AI for music since the early 1990s. A pioneer in composing music with quantum computers, he has composed for renowned ensembles such as the BBC Concert Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. His opera, Lampedusa, was premiered by BBC Singers in 2019. Miranda is a professor at the University of Plymouth, UK, head of the university's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), and research director at Moth Quantum. His latest book, Quantum Computer Music, was published in 2022 by Springer.

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