PROBABLY/POSSIBLY?: An Immersive Interactive Visual/Sonic Quantum Composition and Synthesizer

PubDate: October 2017

Teams: University of Californi；University of London；University Federico II of Naple

Writers: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin；Lance Putnam；Luca Peliti；Dennis Adderton；Andres Cabrera；Kon Hyong Kim；Gustavo Rincon；Joseph Tilbian；Hannah Wolfe；Tim Wood；Keehong Youn

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Abstract

This research project is based on 32 years of Kuchera-Morin’s research and practice in spatio-temporal music composition and media arts. The project is an immersive interactive visual, sonic computational instrument presented as an installation, which includes the development of an open-source computational language, and Kuchera-Morin’s immersive interactive visual/sonic composition PROBABLY/POSSIBLY? Using the mathematics of quantum mechanics, the immersive instrument and computational language facilitates the creation of new, unique visual/sonic art forms. This project allows the artist to drive scientific and technological research for creative expression. This same technology is giving physicists insight into higher dimensional representation. The immersive visual/sonic instrument and language is based on the time-dependent Schrödinger equation splitting a hydrogen-like atom’s electron in superposition in various orbitals. The immersive media composition, PROBABLY/POSSIBLY? can be interactively performed using our multimodal computational platform and open source language. The instrument/installation can also be used to compose and perform a number of art works based on the time-dependent Schrödinger equation