Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin is a distinguished composer, concert pianist, music theorist, and researcher. Often called the Kazakh Mozart, he began composing at the age of 9. He is the author of 3 Operas and more than 150 music compositions, from chamber to symphonic works. He was awarded the 2024 Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, London, UK. His music is performed in the prestigious concert halls including Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall NYC, Royal Festival Hall London. Rakhat-Bi’s book ‘Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music: Shadows of the Void’ was published by Springer Nature (2024).
Bob Coecke is a distinguished theoretical physicist. He was Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics, and Structures at the University of Oxford until 2020. He invented Categorical Quantum Mechanics, ZX-calculus, Quantum Natural Language Processing, and will perform on a special ‘quantum’ guitar (invented by him) that is connected to a quantum computer and generates sounds based on computations on a qubit. He is a pioneer of industrial music and co-composed the first piece of music generated by a quantum computer.
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