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HEIndividual fellowship2023–2025

IIMPAQCT · Integrated Interdisciplinary Music Practice And Quantum Computing Technologies

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-06-01 → 2025-05-31
EU contribution
€156,779
Participants
1
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Results in brief

Integrated Interdisciplinary Music Practice And Quantum Computing Technologies

We live in a privileged time, with opportunities (and risks) brought about by emerging technologies and their impacts on the socio-cultural and creative practices of human communities. Quantum Computing (QC) in particular offers opportunities to review scientific and technological concepts, and opens up exciting possibilities to the creative Arts. IIMPAQCT has the main objective of exploring and developing the cross-fertilization relationship between Quantum Computing Science and Creative Artistic Practice. First and foremost, it aims at creating bridges (common language, collaborative productions) between professionals in these two fields of knowledge, which until now have been largely separated or interacted in a partial manner through isolated development efforts in each field, or disconnected from contextualized artistic practice and theory. IIMPAQCT fosters a true integration that involves insights from creative artists in theoretical discussions and practical explorations in Quantum Computing, expanding and diversifying the community involved in QC, as well as bringing new expressive tools / creative applications of QC to the Arts (with a special focus on Music). IIMPAQCT’s 4 main objectives include: 1) development of an informed interdisciplinary artistic practice able to contribute to practical and theoretical debates and engage in collaborations with artists, music performers, and researchers working in theory, analysis, and aesthetics; 2) making accessible tools for QAC (Quantum-computing Aided Composition) including code, examples, and documentation; 3) curriculum development, including a course syllabus, teaching materials, and delivery of workshops; and 4) building the foundations for, including the pursuit of opportunities that might enable the construction of, a distinct/unique artistic and academic career. Achieving these objectives requires a multifaceted approach, encompassing multiple avenues to the desired convergence point. At IIMPAQCT, this approach is implemented simultaneously in three interdependent areas/dimensions: artistic creation, technological-scientific production, and curriculum development. This has resulted in new artistic works, new conceptual and technological tools (software papers and conferences), and initiatives and courses to train a new generation of artist-researchers-scientists.

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Project objective

Emergent technologies open new avenues for industry and society but rarely create an open and inclusive space to think through their implications. Quantum Computing (QC) currently represents a change in paradigm by offering a unique opportunity to rethink computation from its very inception. In its effects and applications, this is also the time and space to approach creative practice in an entirely new way.IIMPAQCT (Integrated Interdisciplinary Music Practice And Quantum Computing Technologies) explores ways to expand and diversify the community engaged with QC, and its epistemological and praxical connection to the Creative Arts with emphasis in Music. Recent explorations in QC and Music, as well as in the Visual Arts domain, have been pursued in isolation and even detached from contextual artistic practice and theory. The lack of real integration, that engages creative artists in the QC theoretical discussion and practical explorations, makes the distance between Art and Science even wider and hinders the sustainability of a truly diverse society, both socio-culturally and technologically.IIMPAQCT aims to develop and reinforce new interdisciplinary links connecting Arts, Science and Technology through 3 main intertwined research-work dimensions: i) an Artistic dimension promoting a network of creative practitioners engaging with QC while empowering them to be active participants in the field development; ii) a Technologic-Scientific dimension focusing on the improvement and creation of practical tools and methods towards an intersectoral innovation; and iii) a Curricular dimension that unfolds with the creation of study and research spaces in QC and Arts, as spaces for knowledge/theory construction, as well as analysis and multi-artistic creations. This project uses principles of open access by engaging with a local/global community of musicians and artists.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA · CoimbraCoordinatorPortugal

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union