# Teaching Qubits to Sing: Mission Impossible?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08225 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.08225/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Jul 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Quantum Computer: Hello, Music!](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.13849/) (2020)
- [Creative Quantum Computing: Inverse FFT, Sound Synthesis, Adaptive Sequencing and Musical Composition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.05832/) (2020)
- [Quanta in sound, the sound of quanta: a voice-informed quantum theoretical perspective on sound](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.10781/) (2021)
- [Quantum Computer Music: Foundations and Initial Experiments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.12408/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper introduces a system that learns to sing new tunes by listening to examples. It extracts sequencing rules from input music and uses these rules to generate new tunes, which are sung by a vocal synthesiser. We developed a method to represent rules for musical composition as quantum circuits. We claim that such musical rules are quantum native: they are naturally encodable in the amplitudes of quantum states. To evaluate a rule to generate a subsequent event, the system builds the respective quantum circuit dynamically and measures it. After a brief discussion about the vocal synthesis methods that we have been experimenting with, the paper introduces our novel generative music method through a practical example. The paper shows some experiments and concludes with a discussion about harnessing the creative potential of the system.