His work has appeared in The Lovecraft eZine, Samsara: The Magazine of Suffering, Tigershark eZine, Turn To Ash horror zine, The Atlantean Supplement, The Eldritch Literary Review, The Chamber, and Horizontum (Mexico City). John's first novel in the Dark Union series, NIGHT OF THE KWATEE is now available (on Amazon), published by Night Horse Publishing House. His horror short, "The Thing Beneath the Tree," also appears in the PROTECTORS OF THE VEIL anthology from the Lovecraft Lunatic Society (on Amazon). Follow John's latest publication news on Twitter @HPL_JDeLaughter or Facebook @HPLJDeLaughter.

"And of course there was nothing more repellent than the synthesizer," said Morrissey, front man for the Smiths, in a 1983 interview, reflecting the arguments of the day that raged around whether the new electronic instruments of the 1970s qualified as "proper" music. In 1982, a branch of the U.K.'s Musician's Union even tried to ban the use of synths, on the grounds that they were taking work away from musicians who played stringed instruments. Those kinds of arguments may have a parallel today, in 2019, with the emergence of music created with artificial intelligence. Some of the questions (Is this "real" music? Can it compete with human-made melodies? If so, will it put those humans out of a job?) are eerily similar.

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This is a video created using a deep-learning artificial intelligence program that placed Steve Buscemi's face on Jennifer Lawrence's head and body while she was speaking at the 2016 Golden Globe awards. So, if you were wondering if we've gone too far the answer is yes -- we're already over the edge of the cliff like Wyle E. Coyote and just haven't realized it yet. The moment we look down it's all over. Keep going for the video. Thanks to Allyson S, who agrees there are some things best left unseen.

Previous research on quantum computing / mechanics and the arts has usually been in simulation. The small amount of work done in hardware or with actual physical systems has not utilized any of the advantages of quantum computation: the main advantage being the potential speed increase of quantum algorithms. This paper introduces a way of utilizing Grover's algorithm - which has been shown to provide a quadratic speedup over its classical equivalent - in algorithmic rulebased music composition. The system introduced - qgMuse - is simple but scalable. It lays some groundwork for new ways of addressing a significant problem in computer music research: unstructured random search for desired music features. Example melodies are composed using qgMuse using the ibmqx4 quantum hardware, and the paper concludes with discussion on how such an approach can grow with the improvement of quantum computer hardware and software.

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