The Gedanken Room (2021)

The Gedanken Room (2021) a film by Omar Costa Hamido cinematography by Grant Speich audio engineering by G. Blake Harrison-Lane with Tina Raymond, Will Vinson, Niloufar Shiri, Waeli Wang, JNTHN Stein, and Omar Hamido Premiere June 9, 2021 11:00 a.m. Welcome to “The Gedanken Room,“ a place to carry thought experiments. In this film-recital, composer-director Omar Costa Hamido (OCH) explores the implications of Quantum Computing (QC) for music composition and improvisation. Presenting a concert of original compositions created for a line up of performer-improvisers in Jazz, Contemporary, and Electronic Music, performances emerge in the middle of the void as a series of experiments. In its four pieces “4 Disklavier Preludes“, “Telematic Entanglements“, “Second Cornerstone“, and “Decoherence“, the continuous and shifting visual narrative addresses issues in society and technology, including human-computer interactions as we