In Lisbon...some relief from UK heath. fmqc-workshop.github.io/2026/

We'll soon be playing at Wacken Open Air again! Thursday 30 July 3pm on the Wasteland Stage, which is a pretty cool stage! www.wacken.com/en/ blacktish.com

Here's Relational Intelligence. rel-int.ai Why? Current LLMs are unexplainable, no path to efficiency, no path to scalability... How? The same structure governs quantum mechanics and natural language, and cognition more generally. We use this to build AI whose reasoning you can trust. When? Now!

Long overdue, but Black Tish now has a webpage, with a little (actually a lot) help from Claude. www.blacktish.com

Finally got my hands on the Greek copy of Quantum in Pictures. Very proud of that, as there is the pre-Socratic connection. It is beautifully done.

The world needs opposites to get along, work together...music is a good way to do so.

Short news bite on Quantum Guitar by FQxI.

Please see below the call for papers for the 2nd Quantum AI conference in Indiana, this summer August 14-16. I will be chairing the quantum NLP track. qnlp.ai

Will be giving this talk this Thursday. Free online attendance. Register here: airtable.com/appmlaNdmr67...

Here it is, the first ever quantum symphony, "Quantum Universe", composed by "Kazakh Mozart" Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, with him in Cathedral Organ, and me on Quantum Guitar. "Quantum" in two ways: Abdyssagin's book "Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music", and my Quantum Guitar. youtu.be/1Dl8BGqTuE0

We'll be playing at Wacken Open Air this year, on the wasteland stage, also VIP-premiering quantum guitar for the press. blacktish.com

Check out this interview of renowned data-sculpture artist Refik Anadol and myself on quantum art, by Firgun Ventures' Kris Naudts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnL_...

Trailer for our concerts at Oxford's Quantum Centenary with "the Kazakh Mozart", virtuoso musician and composer Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin. youtu.be/4e_Gg-BZwo0

The Quantum Insider about our new educational initiative for quantum and AI. thequantuminsider.com/2026/02/11/n...

Check out this course, if you want to learn about our quantum pictures! Link: neurossance.com/courses/quan...

Next week I'll be giving a talk and a quantum guitar concert at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, near Berlin, for their Year of Quantum celebrations. Maybe CU there, in person, or on Zoom. www.einsteinforum.de/tagung/von-u...

We have a new paper on the arXiv that provides a widely applicable graphical language for photonically interlocking modular components for various kinds of quantum hardware. arxiv.org/abs/2601.08389

Our first ZX-calculus paper was written in 2007 in the Alborz mountains in Iran. Let's hope that the Iranian people can get what "they" want. (RIP Hassan) www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.c...

Proud to be included in the top 10 most watched science talks of 2025 at The Royal Institution, at nr 5. www.rigb.org/explore-scie... @perimeterinstitute.ca @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @fqxi.org

Free concert this Wednesday downstairs at the Wheatsheaf at Oxford in support of East Oxford Primary School, featuring my band Black Tish. www.facebook.com/events/18293...

Our "short" paper on our 2023 experiment with secondary school students doing an Oxford University postgraduate exam is out now. The results were reported in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2023... arxiv.org/abs/2512.00141

Will be speaking here next week in Barcelona: quantumeducationsummit.eu

Here is the recording of my talk at the Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference. There are many other very interesting talks as well, all available through the Philosophy of Physics's YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@OxfordPhilo... www.youtube.com/live/t69o-8e...

Now ongoing in Oxford. All being filmed, including the two concerts, one of which was yesterday, orchestral organ + quantum guitar. Worked out well it seems.

My online `relatorium' aka `compassionate mathematics' talk - some interesting observations in the discussion regarding how the passage to a relational perspective as in Quantum Picturalism, or @rovelli.bsky.social, helps achieving inclusivity of any form. www.youtube.com/live/Oz5dmtI...

Being in industrial music, quite something to have a show advertised by the Faculty of Music of the University of Oxford, which is traditionally very traditional. Free subsidised show, come and see us. www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/rakhat...

Glad that I can brag about this paper as co-author as my contribution has been minimal. Takes ZX-calculus to a new level by connecting quantum foundations research, it's initial motivation, to condensed matter physics and (loop) quantum gravity research. arxiv.org/abs/2511.06012

Two free quantum music concerts in Oxford with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and @coecke.bsky.social, as part of the “What Quantum?” centenary events. Admittance is free, but spaces are limited. More information: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165314/...

I'll be given a talk this Friday the 14th, 16.30pm UK time. It will be live streamed. Check here: researchseminars.org/talk/CompMat...

Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and myself will be playing two concerts in Oxford, 20 and 23 November. They are both world-premiere's.

Reposting this, as it is important. medium.com/quantinuum/e...

Will be talking at this amazing event in Oxford, celebrating 100 years of Quantum. Scroll down to the satellite events at the bottom of the page for some musical world premiere's! More on those later... www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

In Palermo for 3rd Int. Symp. on Quantum Computing & Musical Creativity, where I will do a Quantum Guitar demo, present a paper on it, and also present the paper with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin on a new music notation based on ZX-calculus, which we call Quantum Concept Music. 2025.isqcmc.org/program.html

If you happen to be in Oxford today, we are hosting the Basil Hiley memorial at Wolfson College, Oxford. All welcome! Speakers are Peter Van REETH, P Calum ROBSON, Tim PALMER FRS, Lindon NEIL, Peter BRADSHAW, Bob COECKE, Roger PENROSE

Happy to be part of that scene. Good place to launch Quantum Guitar properly... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...

In four weeks in NY I will be talking about quantum-enabled responsible AI. A few days earlier in Toronto-Fields and a few days later at Perdue Uni too. www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2... iqtevent.com/quantumai/ engineering.purdue.edu/IE/PurdueQua...

Not only at the athletics world cup in Tokyo are new world records set. This is for our H2 quantum computer.

Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...

New paper, somewhat different. arxiv.org/abs/2509.04526

In back is my old flat in Brussels (lower of the two sticking out on right). I departed in 2001 with Mazda to Oxford, to never come back. 1st Black Tish album was recorded there. bigtakeover.com/recordings/b... Famous enough square on Boulevard Henry Poincare:. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_...

Happy to finally announce this long-overdue paper. TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam. More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013

Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.