Teaching Qubits to Sing: Mission Impossible?
Abstract
This paper introduces a system that learns to sing new tunes by listening to examples. It extracts sequencing rules from input music and uses these rules to generate new tunes, which are sung by a vocal synthesiser. We developed a method to represent rules for musical composition as quantum circuits. We claim that such musical rules are quantum native: they are naturally encodable in the amplitudes of quantum states. To evaluate a rule to generate a subsequent event, the system builds the respective quantum circuit dynamically and measures it. After a brief discussion about the vocal synthesis methods that we have been experimenting with, the paper introduces our novel generative music method through a practical example. The paper shows some experiments and concludes with a discussion about harnessing the creative potential of the system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.08225,
title = {Teaching Qubits to Sing: Mission Impossible?},
author = {Eduardo Reck Miranda and Brian N. Siegelwax},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08225},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Preprint of paper to appear in International Journal of Unconventional Computing. Audio recordings of the musical examples and programming code are available: https://github.com/iccmr-quantum/QuSing and https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=1504503