Concert: Quantum soundscapes

Welcome to an evening where the artist Maria Kling lets quantum physics speak through a performance of sound and rhythm together with musicians from the Royal College of Music. The musicians have developed electronic instruments and scores in this collaboration based on the rules and phenomena of quantum physics.

Inspired by the the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics the concert interprets quantum physics—the branch of physics that describes matter and energies on atomic and subatomic levels. Throughout the evening, Kling explores how fundamental quantum phenomena and data can be translated into music.

Between the musical pieces, Kling explains the foundational principles of quantum physics. Through conversation and music, quantum physics becomes both easier to understand and more vivid on a human level.

About the sound piece

The piece was created by the artist Maria Kling together with five master’s students from the Royal College of Music and researchers from Germany.

The music in this concert is deeply infused with, and based on, the rules of quantum physics and actual quantum data. The students have programmed electronic instruments inspired by fundamental quantum effects and their measurement: entanglement, phase effects, and tunneling. These instruments are performed live during the concert by the students.

In addition, they use real sonified quantum‑experiment data from the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems in Paderborn, allowing us to hear different forms of light in quantum effects.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

In 2025 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret och John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.

The laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.