Jamming with a Quantum Computer: A musical journey into quantum computing

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Claims a working system that composes and jams in species counterpoint by encoding pitches (C D E F G A B C) as qubits, mapping melodic and harmonic transition matrices to unitary gates, and sampling measurements to produce notes. The open-source Quantum Music Composer loads circuits into a simulator or a real IBM Q 16‑qubit (Melbourne) device, returns note strings for scoring software, and offers a real‑time jam mode that successfully responds to live input.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 3:27Why use a quantum computer?
3. 6:07Simulating nature complex chemical reactions, for example
4. 8:34Music and quantum mechanics are probabilistic
5. 11:30Johann Joseph Fux
6. 12:57Expressing melodic characteristics in a transition matrix
7. 23:11Modifying transition matrices using degree of freedom rotations
8. 26:43Quantum computer composing a melody
9. 27:27Quantum computer composing a song
10. 33:27Representing Qubits with the Bloch Sphere
11. 41:13Developing quantum apps
12. 44:17Close encounters of the minor third kind

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