Vote for 2025's Theme Song

Exercise Your Quantum Civic Responsibility

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Jack Krupansky has suggested a motivational theme song for 2025, offering Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” But if everyone listens to Marvin Gaye all year, they’ll be procreating instead of working. I’m counter-proposing a theme song with a quantum theme; which one gets your vote?

In case you’re unfamiliar with any of these, I’ve included video and/or audio clips of all of them below.

“One Entangled Evening” (John Preskill, Gia Mora)

Let’s start with a song that’s actually about quantum. This isn’t just some silly thing off social media; Prof. John Preskill lends his gravitas along with his vocals.

“Watermelon Man” (Ion Maiden, Moth)

This is Ion Maiden (Chris Bishop, Sergio Gago, Eric Michon, Adrian Maguire, Thomas Ehmer) performing with the Moth Actias quantum synthesizer.

“Lumina Grooves 1” (Eduardo Reck Miranda)

This was composed with one of Quandela’s photonic quantum computers — not an emulator, mind you, but real hardware.

Quantum Music Using Random Walks (Devanshu Garg)

This was composed using a quantum walk algorithm on an emulator. Learn more about the algorithm in Prof. Miranda’s “Quantum Computer: Hello, Music!”

1. Image generated by an AI model provided by Microsoft Copilot.