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    21

    Jun

    NpHz live @ New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

    [1] [2]

    3

    Jun

    Newsletter [OCH] NPHZ debut, CARDS, and scientific committees is out @ quantumland.art

    [1]

    2

    Jun

    New album: /Equations of Coltrane

    [1] [2]

    31-3

    May-Jun

    4 Disklavier Preludes @ NIME 2023, Mexico City

    [1]

    30

    May

    och.scorestream featured in Mind the sky @ Tele Espacios Activos, Colombia

    [1]

    30

    May

    Mentioned in CEIS20 Newsletter

    [1] [2]

    20-10

    May-Jun

    New video installation Multiscreenverse Composition I and II @ Beall Center, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    6-9

    May

    New short tutorials on webdesign @ github

    [1] [2]

    5

    May

    Serving on the Scientific Committee for ENIM 2023 - XII MEETING ON MUSIC RESEARCH

    [1]

    4

    May

    Newsletter [OCH] och.score, Música Analítica, and NpHz is out @ quantumland.art

    [1]

    4

    May

    New Max abstraction och.score

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    12

    Apr

    Presenting OSC-Qasm @ EvoMUSART

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    5

    Apr

    Newsletter [OCH] MSCA, EvoMUSART, and Polyphonic Rituals is out @ quantumland.art

    [1]

    1

    Apr

    OSC-Qasm: Interfacing Music Software with Quantum Computing paper published @ Springer

    [1] [2] [3]

    15

    Mar

    Badge: Qiskit Localization Contributor - Bronze Level Translator - 2022

    [1]

    15

    Mar

    talk: Music and Quantum Computing @ UC x IBM Quantum Computing Workshop

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    15

    Mar

    Started mailing list @ quantumland.art

    [1]

    28

    Feb

    Serving on the Scientific Board for Música Analítica 2023 @ UC

    [1]

    13

    Feb

    I was selected for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship!

    [1]

    3

    Feb

    New album: Polyphonic Rituals

    [1] [2] [3]

    26

    Jan

    on exploring a vectorial path definition of a sound @ giuc.och.pw

    [1]

    [--2022--]

    27

    Dec

    radio interview on Apanhados na Rede @ RDP International

    [1] [2] [3]

    24

    Dec

    och.lockdevice2push2 v1.1 @ gumroad

    [1] [2]

    3

    Dec

    OSC-Qasm: Interfacing Music Software with Quantum Computing preprint @ arXiv

    [1] [2]

    18

    Nov

    Serving on the Executive and Scientific Board for 2nd ISQCMC @ Berlin

    [1]

    1

    Nov

    book chapter published on Quantum Computer Music: Foundations, Methods and Advanced Concepts @ Springer

    [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

    12

    Oct

    invited talk: On Music & Painting & Quantum Computing @ University of Virginia

    [1]

    29

    Sep

    started mentoring capstone project @ MSWE - UCI

    [1] [2] [3]

    25

    Sep

    in artistic residency with Carly Seller and STArt @ Studio16

    [1] [2] [3]

    2

    Aug

    The New Quantum Era Podcast music

    [1] [2]

    18

    July

    4 new Artist Presets featured in Delta Sound Labs' Stream Granular plugin

    [1]

    8

    July

    New album: OCH meets Carly Seller

    [1]

    28

    June

    Making Music with Quantum Computing @ IKLECTIK

    [1]

    20

    June

    Translator Lead for Qiskit Textbook

    [1]

    1

    June

    Recording with Carly Seller @ The House

    21

    May

    Mapping & diagramming with Miro

    [1]

    10

    May

    Released OSC-Qasm 2 @ github & zenodo

    [1] [2]

    25

    Apr

    ISQCMC's Quantum Aesthetics Focus Group Report

    [1]

    26

    Mar

    New Max abstraction and M4L: och.livesetdir

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    17

    Mar

    Released och.mcue @ github

    [1]

    9

    Mar

    Released SOC-Qasm @ github & zenodo

    [1] [2]

    2

    Mar

    On Developing Tools for Making Music with Quantum Computers @ UoP

    [1]

    9

    Feb

    book chapter QAC: Quantum-computing Aided Composition preprint @ arXiv & zenodo

    [1] [2]

    30

    Jan

    Released OSC-Qasm @ github & zenodo

    [1] [2]

    20

    Jan

    New Max abstraction: och.m2txt

    [1] [2]

    8

    Jan

    Recording Eduardo Miranda's Zeno @ The House

    [1] [2] [3]

    7

    Jan

    Released patches from Intro to Quantum Computer Music

    [1]

    [--2021--]

    25

    Dec

    Pi Video Machine

    [1] [2]

    22

    Dec

    OCH and 1st ISQCMC @ U.S. Embassy Lisbon Newsletter

    [1]

    30

    Nov

    Mentioned in The Symphony of the Atoms @ Tamarind #2

    [1]

    19-20

    Nov

    1st Int Symposium on QC and Musical Creativity @ University of Plymouth (online)

    [1]

    17

    Nov

    First International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity @ Quantum Zeitgeist

    [1]

    15

    Nov

    Presenting the 1st Int Symposium on QC and Musical Creativity @ Qiskit blog

    [1]

    29

    Oct

    The Gedanken Room @ U.S. Embassy Lisbon & Fulbright Portugal Newsletters

    [1] [2]

    22

    Oct

    The Gedanken Room @ Fulbright 75 Virtual Art Exhibit

    [1]

    16

    Oct

    Launched new omarcostahamido.com website

    9

    Oct

    Judge at the Quantum Design Jam @ The New School, NY USA

    [1] [2]

    29

    Sep

    Aventures in Quantumland is online!

    [1]

    8

    Sep

    As of today I am officially a PhD :)

    -

    Jul

    Working now at ICCMR @ Plymouth, United Kingdom

    [1] [2] [3]

    9

    Jun

    The Gedanken Room premiere

    [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

    9

    Jun

    Defending my dissertation

    [1] [2]

    21

    May

    Second Cornerstone @ ICIT Concert, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    19

    Apr

    Just out: och.trackAudioTo

    [1]

    14

    Apr

    OCH @ Arts Talk now on youtube

    [1] [2]

    29-9

    Mar-Apr

    Recording The Gedanken Room @ xMPL, CA USA

    22

    Mar

    CTSA's Dean Barker interviews OCH @ Arts Talk

    [1]

    21

    Mar

    Recording Telematic Entanglements

    14

    Mar

    Estudo nº1 - Falésia recording available again

    [1]

    3

    Mar

    Subbing for Michael Dessen at UCI Jazz Telematic Concert

    [1]

    21

    Feb

    QisJob 4.0 released and on zenodo now

    [1]

    19

    Feb

    New version of MicroQiskit released

    [1]

    2

    Feb

    Talking at Fulbright Outreach Session @ Lisbon, Portugal

    [1] [2]

    27

    Jan

    Ryan Mandelbaum interviews OCH @ Qiskit blog

    [1]

    5

    Jan

    Teaching MUSIC 47: Intro to Telematics @ UCI

    [1]

    1

    Jan

    New UDP implementation for Max: och.udp

    [1] [2]

    [--2020--]

    3

    Dec

    KeyFinder for Live In collaboration with Yeuda Ben-Atar

    [1] [2]

    -

    Dec

    New software: och.smartlight, KeyFinder for Live

    [1] [2]

    30

    Nov

    The Space Between the Strings (video)

    [1] [2]

    5

    Nov

    Nownet Arts Conference 2020 @ Stony Brook University, NY USA (hybrid)

    [1]

    30

    Oct

    CTSA Graduate Research Colloquium

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    24

    Oct

    Alex Lough's Assemblage no 4 @ Splice Festival IV Concert 4, University of Georgia USA

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    18

    Oct

    New PhD research website: quantumland.art

    [1]

    5-9

    Oct

    Qiskit Hackathon Global

    [1]

    16

    Sep

    Presenting Quantum Synth at Audio Mostly 2020 @ Graz, Austria

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    6-7

    Sep

    New software: och.jweb, och.assistant-voice-lite, och.p2-savelive, och.MIDILHL

    [1] [2] [3] [4]

    29

    Aug

    A Quantum-Classical Network for Beat-Making Performance is out on JONMA

    [1]

    22

    Aug

    Recording videoclip Alex Lough's Assemblage no 4 @ CA USA

    [1]

    20-22

    Aug

    Interviewing new Qiskit Advocates candidates

    20

    Jul

    Mentioned in Gabby Miller's interview

    [1]

    17

    Jul

    Premiere cineballet CANON featuring The Space Between the Strings

    [1] [2] [3]

    15

    Jul

    Mentioned in Junye Huang's medium article

    [1]

    25

    Jun

    Playing in Kevin Anthony's Sinew @ CA USA (online)

    [1]

    18

    Jun

    PT-PT Qiskit Translator Lead

    [1] [2]

    2

    Jun

    OCH is ABD now :)

    26

    May

    Summer 2020 GDDF Award

    20

    May

    2020 Medici Scholarship Award

    13

    May

    Yeuda Ben-Atar reviews och.EQ8FreqMIDICtrl

    [1] [2] [3]

    4-8

    May

    IBM Quantum Challenge 2020

    [1] [2]

    1-8

    May

    M4L devices: och.MIDI-2-Freq, och.EQ8FreqMIDICtrl

    [1] 2]

    1

    May

    [postponed] 05/01 OCH's The Gedanken Room @ xMPL, CA USA

    23-30

    Apr

    Untitled (aka Masked Creature 1) and Masked Creature 2

    [1] [2]

    24

    Apr

    2020 Dean's Scholarship Award

    [1]

    13

    Apr

    Awesome Networked Media

    [1]

    13

    Mar

    M4L devices: och.dobrian.quadpan~. och.binaural-quadpreview

    [1] [2]

    10-13

    Mar

    [postponed] Qiskit Camp 2020 @ Yorktown Heights, NY / Killington, VT USA

    [1]

    27-11

    Feb-Mar

    Max abstractions: och.hex2d, och.binstr2dec, och.dec2binstr

    [1] [2] [3]

    2

    Feb

    I'm an "Arctic Code Vault Contributor"

    [1] [2] [3]

    11-20

    Jan

    Collaborative installation Oracle @ xMPL, CA USA

    [1] [2] [3]

    [--2019--]

    The Space Between the Strings is on New Music by Living Composers vol. 1

    [1] [2] [3]

    25

    Dec

    Ewoks, Doppelgängers, and weird Pachyderms…

    [1]

    SYNCHRESIS – Audio Vision Tales is now available

    [1] [2] [3]

    19

    Dec

    Advanced Audio Plugin Development

    [1]

    11-14

    Dec

    Invited for IBM Qiskit Camp Africa @ Pilanesberg, South Africa

    [1] [2]

    7

    Dec

    Performing on Listen to the Motion @ xMPL, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    5

    Dec

    My first demo session as a Qiskit Advocate

    [1]

    3

    Dec

    och.mtos max/msp external out now

    [1]

    21

    Nov

    Intro to Audio Plugin Development

    [1]

    19

    Nov

    La Cabane @ laptopradio, France

    [1] [2]

    8-9

    Nov

    The Space Between the Strings @ SLSA 2019, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    8

    Nov

    Quantum Synth @ Festival della Tecnologia, Torino, Italy

    [1]

    7

    Nov

    Playing with Tony Fajt @ Impromtu Trailer Show, CA USA

    [1]

    24

    Oct

    I am now a ZotAbility Ally

    [1]

    20

    Oct

    Wolfiverse - a multiverse folk tale based on QC

    [1] [2]

    -

    Oct

    I am now a Qiskit Advocate!

    [1] [2]

    18-20

    Oct

    Selected for Quantum Futures Hackathon @ CERN, Switzerland

    [1]

    23

    Sep

    Hanah Davenport's Angelo's Garden is out

    [1] [2]

    -

    Sep

    My Quantum Synth & IBM Qiskit Camp Award on the news

    [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

    14

    Sep

    Just won the Community Choice Award! @ IBM Qiskit Camp Europe, Switzerland

    [1]

    12-15

    Sep

    Nominated for IBM Qiskit Camp Europe @ Piz Gloria, Switzerland

    [1]

    8-12

    Sep

    Quantum Information for Developers @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    [1]

    23

    Aug

    Member #51592491 in The League of American Bicyclists

    [1]

    17

    Aug

    Lost in Space @ TouchDesigner Summit 2019, Montreal, Canada

    [1] [2] [3]

    20

    Jul

    Real-Time Audio Signal Processing in Faust

    [1]

    8

    Jun

    recording The Space Between the Strings @ CAC, CA USA

    4

    Jun

    Presenting och.scorestream @ WSH, CA USA

    [1]

    3

    Jun

    The Space Between the Strings @ MOCAP, CA USA

    [1]

    2

    Jun

    The Introduction to Quantum Computing by SPbU

    [1]

    31

    May

    Playing in Lukas Ligeti: Chaos, Order, Melody @ WSH, CA USA

    [1]

    24

    May

    The Space Between the Strings @ WSH, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    3

    May

    Playing with Ghostbird @ Irvine Barclay Theatre, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    28

    Mar

    Presenting och.scorestream @ IRCAM, France

    [1] [2] [3]

    17

    Mar

    Playing with new quartet Ghostbird @ MOCAP, CA USA

    12

    Mar

    Presenting my research Adventures in Quantumland @ AITR190, CA USA

    28

    Feb

    Presenting a poster at Forum IRCAM Workshops 2019 @ Paris, France

    [1]

    23

    Feb

    Duet for Human and Machine will be @ SCFTA, CA USA

    [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

    30

    Jan

    Duet for Human and Machine awarded Brilliance: A Night of Music and Light 1º Prize

    [1] [2]

    30

    Jan

    My first collab game at Global Game Jam 2019

    [1] [2]

    16-19

    Jan

    I'm on this year's NAMM 2019 Show @ Anaheim, CA USA

    [1]

    -

    Jan

    Gold Level Founding Member UCI Bike Ambassador

    [1]

    [--2018--]

    Mentioned in Public Art in the Digital Creativity Era (pp 453-461)

    [1]

    6

    Dec

    Experiments in Telematic Music

    [1] [2]

    17

    Nov

    och.scorestream released

    [1]

    If you're interested in ICIT then check this out

    [1] [2]

    10

    Oct

    Short interview with Grad Division

    [1] [2] [3]

    13

    Sep

    och.lockdevice2push2 released

    [1]

    -

    Sep

    Gumroad page just launched

    [1]

    9

    Jun

    Serendipity @ MoCap, CA USA

    [1]

    1

    Jun

    Duet for Human and Machine @ Beall Center, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    30

    May

    Playing on Spring Soirée @ WSH, CA USA

    [1]

    24

    May

    Playing on Automata Embodied @ xMPL, CA USA

    [1]

    4-5

    May

    Performing as visualist in Living in the Tempest @ Irvine Barclay Theatre, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    10

    Apr

    Software Carpentry Workshop on Unix, Git, and Python

    [1]

    19

    Mar

    Serverless Machine Learning with Tensor Flow on GCP

    [1]

    14

    Mar

    The Intermedia Quartet @ AITR190, CA USA

    [1] [2]

    6

    Mar

    Got my Course Design Program Certificate

    [1]

    11

    Jan

    Nicole Mitchell mentioned me on her feature article

    [1] [2]

    [--2017--]

    4

    Dec

    B.U.D. Sophia @ MoCap, CA USA

    [1]

    1

    Dec

    Playing on Mark Micchelli Ens

    [1]

    15

    Nov

    I'll be presenting at EAW 2017 on 11/15

    [1]

    16

    Oct

    Double Vaccine with Waeli Wang @ MoCap, CA USA

    [1]

    -

    Sep

    Pursuing my PhD in ICIT at UCI, CA USA :)

    [1] [2] [3]

    International Exchange Visitor Alumni

    [1]

    Fulbrighters Portugal - Alumni Association

    [1]

    Fulbright Exchange Visitor!

    [1]

    [--2016--]

    17

    Nov

    qup @ Amorphous beta, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

    [1]

    Working now at CIIMP and Miso Music Portugal

    [1] [2]

    30

    Sep

    The FuturePlaces Impromptu All-Stars Orchestra: Raw Scores

    [1]

    1

    Aug

    On Kierkegaard's Socratic teachings for millennials on medium

    [1]

    27

    Jul

    Great course on Kierkegaard by University of Copenhagen!

    [1] [2]

    13

    Jul

    Internet music: Online Jamming and Concert Technology

    [1]

    6

    Jul

    Awesome course with Jordan Hochenbaum!

    [1] [2]

    New tracks on soundcloud

    [1]

    23

    May

    Just finished a course on Machine Learning

    [1]

    16

    Feb

    Introducing: Adventures in Wonderland Almanac

    [1]

    [--2015--]

    3

    Aug

    José Duarte interviewing Omar Costa Hamido

    [1]

    26

    Feb

    Many thanks to Politécnico do Porto for the award!

    [1]

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