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Philip Taranto 🍋
@tarantophilip.bsky.social
engaging in musical worlds 🌸 and thinking about quantum information 🌀 amongst other things
Recently experienced The Just Alap Raga Ensemble (La Monte Young, Jung Hee Choi, ...) perform Raga Darbari as a tribute to Pandit Pran Nath and Marian Zazeela in the very Dream House itself! The artists request no applause at the "end", so the sounds can continue to permeate the ether forever... 🕯️
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Wrote up a little tutorial + review on higher-order quantum operations. If you love quantum channels, you can think of these as linear maps that act on channels themselves in manner fully consistent with quantum theory! I hope it helps future students / researchers! 🤗
arxiv.org/abs/2503.09693
Higher-Order Quantum Operations
An operational description of quantum phenomena concerns developing models that describe experimentally observed behaviour. $\textit{Higher-order quantum operations}\unicode{x2014}$quantum operations ...
arxiv.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Our recent work using ideas from thermodynamic geometry to derive optimal cooling protocols in quantum collision models of finite depth! I very much enjoyed working with my new collaborators Patryk & Marti, as well as all the old @quitphysics.info crew 💫
Efficiently Cooling Quantum Systems with Finite Resources: Insights from Thermodynamic Geometry
Landauer's limit on heat dissipation during information erasure is critical as devices shrink, requiring optimal pure-state preparation to minimize errors. However, Nernst's third law states this dema...
journals.aps.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BODEGA - Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (2024).
Listen up & listen loud! 🏧
December 6, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Kangding Ray - Ultrachroma (2022)
Weekend colours 🎨
November 30, 2024 at 12:05 PM
SHXCXCHCXSH - ......t (2024)
Full spectrum sound 🌋
November 24, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Alex Zhang Hungtai - Young Gods Run Free (2020).
Lost in the sounds and images and feels ✨
January 26, 2024 at 12:51 AM
reverberate in perpetuity 🔊
"No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit." 
Phill Niblock.
One of the greatest
RIP
January 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (2023)
All our heroes are flying, dying 🦚
November 14, 2023 at 10:54 PM
Peter van Hoesen - Echoes From Westbrook Bay (2021)
Peter is simply one of those artists who is eternally inspiring to me. The sounds, they come from everywhere. 🔊
November 9, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Kevin Richard Martin - Black (2023).
As always, absolutely special sound design here from KRM. A fitting tribute for Amy. 🖤
November 5, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Ilyas Ahmed - A Dream of Another (2023)
Walls not so tall. Some things that are needed to destroy. You recognise the moonlight in the eyes of others. 🌒
October 22, 2023 at 6:28 AM
Bendik Giske - High (2019)
A brief musical reprieve from overwhelmingly difficult emotions. 📯
October 17, 2023 at 11:13 AM
Verde Prato - Kondaira Eder Hura (2021)
Ezin badira erori
Oker guztiak orain
Horrela eutsiko degu
Beste bide baten zain 🏵️
October 12, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Deepchord - Lanterns (2014)
Difficult to find out in the wild. Snagged this one at a little AI listening party with friends last night. 🪔
October 4, 2023 at 12:40 AM
Richard H. Kirk - Never Lose Your Shadow (2014)
Couldn’t if I tried. How did we start listening to all the music that led us here? 👤
October 1, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Deepchord - Immersions (2018)
Will always be a special record in my heart. Fast, swirling sounds. Astral Industries tonight and forever. 🏵️
September 30, 2023 at 1:40 PM
V/A (Orbitando) - Cosmosphere (2023)
Psychedelic-tinged, deep sounds for cosmonauts. Last night I had the pleasure to see my friend Iwamaki/Menou play live, check out her track on this compilation. 🚀
September 30, 2023 at 12:31 AM
Aspetuck - Early Color (2023)
Music to help with breathing. Breathable, laughable, bursting shades for the morning. 🏵️
September 28, 2023 at 9:46 AM
Toki Fuko - Narration (2022)
Hypnotising, swirly, overlong rhythms. Unforgettable music to forget. 🌀
September 27, 2023 at 1:48 PM
Mind Over Midi - Polyphony (2014)
Lush, almost dubby but not too swampy, lichen and moss realms to explore endlessly. 🍃
September 26, 2023 at 2:52 PM
VC-118A - Waves of Change (2023)
Somewhat ironically returning to my routine after summer vacation with this gorgeous music… to return is also to change. 🌊
September 26, 2023 at 12:51 AM
Merrin Karras - Silent Planet (2020)
Today I walked an hour through the western suburbs of Tokyo to and from the dentist (a different kind of strangely isolated place) with these electric dreams by my side. 🪥
September 25, 2023 at 12:37 PM
Hiroshi Yoshimura - GREEN (1986)
Falling asleep to this ambient masterpiece tonight. Welcoming the autumn (with the wrong colour). 💚
September 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Martinou - Chiral (2023)
I open up the blinds. A bird breaks the surface tension. Locked in. To Devotion? No. Demise. An inclination. Reverie. Take me there. Where? Exit (To Bliss). 🪶
September 23, 2023 at 7:39 AM