Endless calculation, inevitable evolution, artistic opportunity. The Spinductor is an instrument that allows users to harness quantum spin via magnets in their hands to create musical gestures with the electromagnetic field surrounding us. Musical material in this piece is generated using quantum algorithms which can be run using qubits – a fundamental unit of computation relying on spin. Rather than having direct control over the music, you instead use magnets to improvise probabilities affecting the timbre of the music. Every gesture through the instrument engages at least twelve dimensions of correlated musical parameters, which could in turn affect the tone-color of the sound, the pace of the music, the way it echoes, and more. The sounds are generated using a pre-trained neural network, and I do not know all the sounds that can be found using the instrument. Technological progress never ceases, providing new opportunities for exploration.
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