Quantum Physics and Music

Title: Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music: Shadows of the Void

Abstract: The presentation covers different connections between quantum physics and contemporary music — ranging from interrelations in chronological perspective to metaphoric correlations between fundamental phenomena in quantum mechanics such as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the Pauli exclusion principle, quantum entanglement etc. and their reflection in the structure of selected music compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Arnold Schönberg and others, as well as in the specific extended techniques of performance. The presentation will tell about the place that classical music occupied in the lives and work of great scientists such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and others. Philosophical aspects of quantum theory and relativity will also be considered.

Host: Lin-Qing Chen (IQOQI Vienna, ÖAW)

The event takes place on tuesday 15th of April at 3.30 pm in Christian-Doppler lecture Hall, 3rd floor, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna

Afterwards: Get-Together with snacks

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Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music – Shadows of the Void (2024)

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