Eduardo Reck Miranda

Miranda was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil.^[3]

In the early 1990s, Miranda attended the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) in Brazil where he received a degree in Data Processing Technology in 1985. Miranda then attended the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) where he studied music composition. In 1991, he received his MSc in Music Technology from York.^[5]

In 1992, Miranda gained admittance to the Faculty of Music of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he obtained his PhD in the combined fields of music and artificial intelligence in 1995.^[6]

Miranda worked as a data analyst at Racimec.

After receiving his PhD, Miranda worked at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). At EPCC, he developed Chaosynth, an innovative granular synthesis software that uses cellular automata to generate complex sound spectra.^[7]

In the mid-1990s, Miranda joined the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow, where he lectured in music technology and electroacoustic music composition. He then moved to Paris to take up a research position at Sony Computer Science Laboratory.^[8]

While at Sony, Miranda filed patents in the field of speech processing and made scientific contributions in the fields of speech synthesis, evolutionary music (computational) and cognitive neural modeling.^[5][9]

In the early 2000s, Miranda was appointed adjunct associate professor of computer science at the American University of Paris.^[10]

In the mid-2000s, Miranda moved to the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where he is a full professor of computer music and head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).^[5]

Miranda is credited with creating the field of brain–computer music interfacing (BCMI), a term he coined to describe systems that use brain signals, typically from electroencephalography (EEG), to actively generate or influence music in real time.^[11][12]

His work includes the development of the Paramusical Ensemble, which enabled a group of individuals with neuromotor disabilities to make music together thanks to a bespoke BCMI system developed with his team at the University of Plymouth.^[13]

Beginning around 2017, Miranda began exploring the application of quantum computing to music.^[14] His work in this area includes developing algorithms for music generation, such as partitioned quantum cellular automata (PQCA), machine learning (Quantum Reservoir Computing) and designing live performance systems where musicians interact with cloud-based quantum computers.^[15][16]

In 2024, he released Qubism, an album of music composed and performed with quantum computers which is cited as the first album composed entirely using quantum computing.^[17]

Miranda's compositions have been performed and broadcast internationally. He has been featured at several music festivals, such as the Festival Latino-Americano de Arte e Cultura (Brasília, 1987), the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (Minneapolis, 1993), Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro, 1995) and Synthèse Festival (Bouges, 1995, 1999, 2001), Festival Música Viva (Lisbon, 2000), Ultraschall (Berlin, 2007), Electronica III - BBC Concert Orchestra (London, 2011), EarZoom Festival (Ljubljana, 2011), Mainly Mozart (La Jolla, 2015), BEYOND Festival (Karlsruhe, 2018), MVMF Metaverse Music Fest (2022), CTM Festival (Berlin, 2024) and AlUIa Future Culture Summit (AlUla, 2024). His works have also been performed by ensembles such as Orquestra Sinfônica de Port Alegre (OSPA), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, and London Sinfonietta.^{[18][19][20][21]}