Monthly Archives: September 2025

Petervan’s Delicacies – September 2025

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“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the Substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-179

Petervan’s Ride – September 2025

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Petervan’s Musical Ride September 2025– 55 songs. For this episode, I got caught up in a Dub Techno rabbit hole. This includes discovering the new album by “Mister Dub” Adrian Sherwood, and the book “Dub Techno: The Orphic Experience of Sound“. But as usual, we have a lot of recent releases, including Mark William Lewis, Lucrecia Dalt, and Chantal Acda. Oldies from David Bowie, Deee-Lite, and keiyiA. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy!

The Forbidden Question – Talk at UnitedXR Dec 2025

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Excited to announce that I’ll be speaking together with Andreea Ion Cojocaru at the 2025 UnitedXR Conference in Brussels, happening December 8–10, 2025. This is my first public appearance in a long time, finally fully disconnected from corporate life and enjoying new artistic endeavours.

The Forbidden Question is a branch of our New New Babylon (aka Dream My Dream) Performance. Andreea and I will give a talk on the genesis and evolution of our project. This performance is a choreographed yet spontaneous play between multiple dreams and dreamers.

Looking forward to seeing some old and new friends in December.

Strange Letter #2 – Mammals and Computers

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This week, another strange letter arrived in my mailbox—again with no sender name or return address. It seems to be from an investigator, a living being whose species I can’t be sure of, calling himself Douglas Spar and signing his notes with the pseudonym “The Holy Lamb.” This one reports from Paris.

There is also a strange video released on a YouTube Channel named “It’s Happening”. Worthwhile following?