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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Jul 22

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... 🕯️

The Just Alap Raga Ensemble sitting and performing a raga in The Dream House.

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Dec 6

BODEGA - Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (2024).
Listen up & listen loud! 🏧

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Nov 30

Kangding Ray - Ultrachroma (2022)
Weekend colours 🎨

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Nov 24

SHXCXCHCXSH - ......t (2024)
Full spectrum sound 🌋

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Jan 26

Alex Zhang Hungtai - Young Gods Run Free (2020).
Lost in the sounds and images and feels ✨

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Jan 9

reverberate in perpetuity 🔊

Moving Furniture Records / Orphax / Sietse @movingfurniturerecords.com · Jan 8

"No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit."
Phill Niblock.
One of the greatest
RIP

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Nov 14

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (2023)
All our heroes are flying, dying 🦚

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Nov 9

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. 🔊

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Nov 9

Where where where??

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Nov 5

Kevin Richard Martin - Black (2023).
As always, absolutely special sound design here from KRM. A fitting tribute for Amy. 🖤

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Oct 22

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. 🌒

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Oct 17

Bendik Giske - High (2019)
A brief musical reprieve from overwhelmingly difficult emotions. 📯

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Oct 12

Verde Prato - Kondaira Eder Hura (2021)
Ezin badira erori
Oker guztiak orain
Horrela eutsiko degu
Beste bide baten zain 🏵️

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Oct 4

Deepchord - Lanterns (2014)
Difficult to find out in the wild. Snagged this one at a little AI listening party with friends last night. 🪔

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Oct 1

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? 👤

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 30

Deepchord - Immersions (2018)
Will always be a special record in my heart. Fast, swirling sounds. Astral Industries tonight and forever. 🏵️

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 30

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. 🚀

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 28

Aspetuck - Early Color (2023)
Music to help with breathing. Breathable, laughable, bursting shades for the morning. 🏵️

Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 27

Toki Fuko - Narration (2022)
Hypnotising, swirly, overlong rhythms. Unforgettable music to forget. 🌀

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 26

Mind Over Midi - Polyphony (2014)
Lush, almost dubby but not too swampy, lichen and moss realms to explore endlessly. 🍃

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 26

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. 🌊

Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 25

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. 🪥

Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.bsky.social · Sep 24

Hiroshi Yoshimura - GREEN (1986)
Falling asleep to this ambient masterpiece tonight. Welcoming the autumn (with the wrong colour). 💚