QUALMS (Quantum Linear Modeling Synthesis)

[cassiopeiae]

I recently read an article in the April 2005 Electronic Musician (page 32) discussing the equations of Quantum Mechanics used in a sound modeling platform to "reproduce the 'sound' of the quantum realm."

Fu Ling Yu, from the Beijing School of Heisenbergian Technology (which I cannot find anywhere on the net), used a prototype quantum computer to output numbers based on Schrodinger's Equation. 

I won't go into details about his set up (go get the article ) but the result of his experiment, I found extremely interesting.  When he first heard the converted sound, it seemed to express his excitement.  When he played it for others, their descriptions of what they heard were completely different than what he had.  He began to notice that his perception of the same music was different and depended on his "state of mind".  Apparently this thing he developed (QUALMS) behaved exactly like other quantum systems and was affected by the presence of an observer.

If anyone has any luck finding more on this, let me know...I have searched and searched and cannot find anything remotely similar.  And, though the article is merely a page long, it is well worth the cover price 

[Astronuc]

QUALMS sounds a bit fishy to me.   

I could not find any thing under string "Quantum Linear Modeling Synthesis", but "Quantum","Linear","Modeling Synthesis" turned up a lot, but not anything that matched QUALMS.

It would be difficult to accept something as 'the' sound from the quantum realm, since at the atomic/nuclear level, the models are just that  - models - that allow us to predict reasonably well the behavior of systems of atoms.  One cannot 'see' let alone 'hear' an atom.

If one looks at Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions, then it is more or less a continuous spectrum - e.g. white noise.

Nevertheless, it is an interesting idea.