Concert "Wave Dysfunction" at CTM Festival [Berlin, Germany] (2024-02-02)

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Announcement, booking and more details: 25th CTM Festival Berlin

Wave Dysfunction - by Eduardo R. Miranda & QuTune Collective
02 February 2024 | Radialsystem | Berlin, Germany

Description

The 25th CTM Festival, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut's Studio Quantum project, has programmed a Quantum Computer Music performance, following up the concert that occured in 2022 in London (Sounding Qubits), when our well-known Quantum Computer Music Book (#4) was launched.
They have also commissioned a magazine article (see #41), which describes the developments made from December 2022 to present day.

Note that this event will take place on the same week and city as the one annouced in #39.

Programme

Pre-concert talks - 15:00 - 18:30

See the link for the pre-concert event here

• 15:00 Welcome and Introduction of »Studio Quantum« - Jan Rohlf (Artistic Director, CTM) und Anna Job (Project Lead, Studio Quantum)
• 15:10 Introduction to Quantum Computing - Prof. Oliver Benson (Humboldt University) (15-20“), followed by discussion with Prof. Gesche Joost (University of Arts Berlin)
• 16:00 Quantum Computer Music. What the heck? - Eduardo Reck Miranda (ICCMR, University of Plymouth)
• 17:30 Performance and Talk - Edy Fung and Muiredach O‘Riain in conversation with Sara Greavu

Concert - 19:00

Swirling Qubits
By Eduardo Reck Miranda

Piece for Q1Synth synthesisers and wearable gestural controllers. Federico Visi controls the quantum sound synthesiser with bespoke gestural controllers developed with UdK’s Wearable Computing team.

Performers:
Federico Visi - Q1Synth gestural controllers
Eduardo Miranda - Q1Synth software

ReVeR
By Paulo Itaborai and Dino Vicente

Telematic electronic music. Live coding by Paulo Itaborai on stage generates quantum information, which is sonified by Dino Vicente operating vintage Moog analogue synthesisers in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Performers:
Paulo Itaborai - live coding with quantumaudio interface
Dino Vicente - Moog Model 15, Citron

Hexagonal Chambers
By Cephas Teom and Paulo Itaborai

Performance with real-time sonification of data generated with quantum algorithms. Pete Thomas (Cephas Teom) uses his own Zen sonification system to render the results from the Variational Quantum Harmonizer system operated by Paulo Itaborai.

Performers:
Cephas Teom - live coding of Zen
Paulo Itaborai - live coding of Variational Quantum Harmonizer

Mind the Qubits
By Colin Harrington and Eduardo Reck Miranda

Colin Harrington uses a Brain-Computer Music Interface to control Q1Synth synthesisers with the power of his mind.

Performer:
Colin Harrigton - Brain-Computer Music Interface

[Itaborala]

The CTM announcement has been included.
Also the name of the concert has changed from "Quantical Songs" to "Wave Dysfunction"