III International Seminar on Quantum Music - The Art of Living in a Quantum World

III International Seminar on Quantum Music

The Art of Living in a Quantum World

Summary:

Quantum music is still an embryonic area within musical studies. Quantum mechanics establishes a series of theories and guidelines for dealing with the subatomic world, where the parameters of Newtonian physics do not apply. While the photons carry the "packets" of light, another "packet" carries the sound: the fonons. Since music is mechanical vibration of air particles and quantum mechanics studies vibrations in a micro world, one can create a methodology to study the relationship of these two worlds.

In the first and second seminars held in 2018 and 2019 at the Department of Music, we studied some characteristics of quantum quantum physics and how some of them could be applied to music. Prof. Kim from the Royal School of Performing Arts of Denmark and Professor of Quantum Physics at the University of Brasilia, Mariana Malard, were present. We had the partnership of CEAM (Center for Advanced Multidisciplinary Studies) and IDA/MUS/PPGMUS.

With the III International Seminar on Quantum Music, which will be completely online, we intend to deepen the studies of the relationship of music with quantum physics, and expand to other forms of arts. For this, in addition to inviting Prof. Kim from the Royal School of Performing Arts of Denmark, who researches the relations of music with quantum physics, we also invited the researchers Grabriela Barreto Lemos of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Kathryn Shaffer of the University of Arts of Chicago, Patricia Enigl, of the Institute of Electronic Music (EMI - Austria), who study the relations of the arts with quantum physics; Prof. Flavio Santos Pereira of the Department of Music of the University of Brasília who researches the composition assisted through the "Pure Data" program of sound synthesis; and Dr. Henriqueta Camarotti, psychiatrist, writer and researcher of consciousness and its relationship with the quantum world. We will open discussion panels and deepen the studies of the relationship between art and music and quantum physics.

Objective:

Continue the research on quantum music in the Music research group and interface linked to PPGMUS and already registered with CAPES, in partnership with CEAM, and expand the research group in quantum music establishing new international partnerships.

Justification:

Quantum theory gives rise to new ideas, new possibilities and new ways of understanding musical development (history) - for example, as a way to detect sounds and forms that do not exist in the traditional (classical) approach to music. The sound of matter and antimatter, scales built on quantum frequencies, music of silence, music we do not hear because of our perception of time etc. The step from "classical" understanding of music to the "quantum understanding" of music could in fact change the framework of music theory and practice itself. We may be facing a paradigm shift that can lead to the creation and understanding of the music of the third millennium.

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