ISQCMC ’25 : 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity

ISQCMC '25

Palermo, Orto Botanico, Sala Lanza & Complesso monumentale dello Steri, sala delle Capriate, University of Palermo, Italy
October 28-29, 2025

PROGRAM

DAY 1 - ORTO BOTANICO

08:30
check-in
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OPENING & KEYNOTE
09:00
Welcome Presentations
10:00
Keynote talk
Davide Rocchesso
10:40
Observe and Revisit: Procedural Music Generation with Cellular Automata on Quantum Hardware
Eduardo Miranda
11:00
pause & soundcheck
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MUSIC DEMONSTRATIONS #1
11:30
(position xor velocity) redux
Marco Elio Tabacchi
11:50
62|29
Felipe González de la Maza, Maciej Lewenstein, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Reiko Yamada
12:09
The Sound of Entanglement
Clemens Wenger, Benjamin Orthner, Johannes Kofler, Richard Küng, Alexander Ploier, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Martin Ringbauer, Philipp Haslinger
12:30
pause for lunch
13:50
return to venue
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MUSIC DEMONSTRATIONS #2
14:00
Quantum Guitar
Rakhat-bi Abdyssagin and Bob Coecke
14:20
quantum music #001
Alex Kontogeorgakopoulos, Daniel Burgarth
14:46
Seeking: High Mountains and Flowing Water
Zhong Zheng and Weijia Yang
15:04
Quantum Loops
Kateri Doran
15:14
pause & soundcheck
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MUSIC DEMONSTRATIONS #3
15:55
Quantum Circuits, HyperCubeHarmonic, and Improvisation: a Case Study of a Remote Networked Performance of the Female Laptop Orchestra
[+ Telematic City Jam - Glasgow]
Maria Mannone, Magdalena Chudy, Ariane de Souza Stolfi, Sonia Wilkie, Silvia Binda Heiserova, Nela Brown
16:10
Q-bars
Alex Alani
16:23
⟨escrita|excrita⟩
Paulo Vitor Itaboraí, Dino Vicente, Fernando Velazquez
16:46
The Veil
Eren Utku
17:00
Open Discussion & Musical Exchange
17:30
End of Day 1

DAY 2 - COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE DELLO STERI

08:30
check-in
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PAPER SESSION #1
09:00
Sonification of Quantum Algorithms with Spline Models of Timbre, Melody, and Rhythm
Matthew Klassen
09:20
Quantum Concept Music Score from Quantum Picturalism: Musical Incarnation of a Bell-Pair under Measurements
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, Bob Coecke
09:40
The Quantum Colour of Sound
Hen Haim Ben Ivgy
10:00
Exploring Quantum Tonality
Thomas Noll, Fèlix Pastor Olives, Peter beim Graben
10:20
pause
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PAPER SESSION #2
10:50
Quantum Delay Effect: Optimization & Next Steps
María Aguado-Yáñez, Daniel Bultrini, Eduardo Reck Miranda
11:10
Processing through encoding: Quantum circuit approaches for point-wise multiplication and convolution
Andreas Papageorgiou, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí, Kostas Blekos, Karl Jansen
11:30
Simulating a Quantum Gate Distortion Effect with the Quantum Audio Python Package
Alex Alani, Eduardo Reck Miranda
11:50
pause for lunch
13:50
return to venue
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PAPER SESSION #3
14:00
Techniques for Quantum-Computing-Aided Algorithmic Composition: Experiments in Rhythm, Timbre, Harmony, and Space
Christopher Dobrian, Omar Costa Hamido
14:20
Quantum Gate Optimization and Automated Composition Controller Implementation for the Q1 Synth
Zhong Zheng, Weijia Yang
14:40
A Quantum Guitar
Bob Coecke
15:00
pause
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PAPER SESSION #4
15:30
Sonification of entanglement dynamics in many-qubit systems
Juliette Tudoce, Marcin Płodzień, Maciej Lewenstein, Reiko Yamada
15:50
Sonified Quantum Seizures. Sonification of time series in epileptic seizures and simulation of seizures via quantum modelling
Maria Mannone, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí, Omar Costa Hamido, Miriam Goldack, Norbert Marwan, Peppino Fazio, Patrizia Ribino
16:10
Development of an Interactive Sound Generation System Based on Quantum Game Theory
Satofumi Souma
16:30
Generating (Constraint-) Satisfying Melodies on a Neutral Atom Quantum Computer
Isaiah Hull, Moses Hull
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CLOSING
16:50
Final Remarks
17:30
End of Day 2

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