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  • Petervan’s Ride – January 2026

    Petervan’s Musical Ride January 2026 – only 27 songs. As usual, mostly several recent releases, including those by Tsar B, Triggerfinger, and The Cribs. Only two oldies: from Cream and Astrid Sonne. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy! Read more

  • The Forbidden Question at UnitedXR Europe – Homo Experiens Explorers

    The Forbidden Question at UnitedXR Europe – Homo Experiens Explorers

    On 9 Dec 2025, Andreea and I gave a “talk” about our journey and lessons learned in creating The Forbidden Question. Rather than a talk, it was a performance about the performance. The talk also includes a speaking lamb from Van Eyck’s famous 1432 Ghent Altarpiece. See the lamb in the video of our talk… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – Nov 2025 > Jan 2026

    “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… Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – December 2025

    Petervan’s Musical Ride December 2025 – only 39 songs. As usual, mostly several recent releases, including those by Selah Sue, Tackhead, and Tsar B. Oldies from Chris Rea, Gary Claill, and The Durutti Column. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy! Read more

  • The Orphic Experience: We are all Argonauts again

    In my post about Dub-Techno artist Adrian Sherwood, I referred to the book “Dub Techno – The Orphic Experience of Sound” by Bahadırhan Koçer to describe my sound experiments with dub. As promised in that post, the most compelling part of the book appears in its opening chapters, where he introduces “The Orphic Experience.” The… Read more

  • Inspiration – Even more David Claerbout

    Studio David Claerbout just published the video of a lecture at The Cloud Collection, Nanjing on the occasion of the opening “Flow of Time. David Claerbout and Zhou Tao” exhibition. At 17:50, he explains how he made the Woodcarver and the Forest. Prompting ChatGPT to create a script and images, then filming what ChatGPT suggested,… Read more