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qc-enabled VFX for a realtime visual programming environment
serving dynamic scores to any browser enabled device
The QAC toolkit
The Quantum-Assisted Composition toolkit.A Max package with abstractions and externals to explore QC and more.
[coming soon Summer 2021]
Omar Costa Hamido - director
Grant Speich - cinematographer
G. Blake Harrison-Lane - audio engineer
Feature film and dissertation recital. Premiere: June 9, 2021.
Second Cornerstone
Niloufar Shiri - kamâncheh
Omar Costa Hamido - music stands
Telematic Entanglements
Will Vinson (AUS) - alto saxophone
Kristina Raymond (US) - drums
Omar Costa Hamido (US) - electronics
4 Disklavier preludes
Waeli Wang - dance
Omar Costa Hamido - saxophone, programming
Decoherence
JNTHN Stein - electronics
Omar Costa Hamido - video, saxophones, programming
Hamido, Omar Costa, Giovanni Amedeo Cirillo, and Edoardo Giusto. 2020. “Quantum Synth: A Quantum-Computing-Based Synthesizer.” In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly, 265–268. AM ’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411109.3411135.
Oshiro, Scott, and Omar Costa Hamido. 2020. “A Quantum-Classical Network for Beat-Making Performance.” Journal of Network Music and Arts 2 (1). https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol2/iss1/4.
On this website you will find a small collection of works, papers, and software that are some of the contributions from the Adventures in Quantumland research project. This project is being pursued by Omar Costa Hamido as the main research focus of his PhD in Music with emphasis in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, at University of California, Irvine. Omar is a performer-composer-technologist and you can learn more about him here. Quantumland explores the implications of emerging paradigms in Quantum Computing (QC) for new modes of artistic creation. This research is sponsored by IBM and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.