The advent of Quantum Computer Music: Mapping the field.

Quantum computing technology is developing at a fast pace. The impact of quantum computing
on the music industry is inevitable. This paper maps the emerging field of Quantum Computer Music.
Quantum Computer Music investigates, and develops applications and methods to process music using
quantum computing technology. The paper begins by contextualising the field. Then, it discusses
significant examples of various approaches developed to date to leverage quantum computing to learn,
process and generate music. The methods discussed range from rendering music using data from
physical quantum mechanical systems and quantum mechanical simulations to computational quantum
algorithms to generate music, including quantum AI. The ambition to develop techniques to encode
audio quantumly for making sound synthesisers and audio signal processing systems is also discussed.