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  • 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 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 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 Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – November 2025

    “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: Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – November 2025

    Petervan’s Musical Ride November 2025 – 60+ songs. As usual, mostly several recent releases, including those by Rosalia, Portland, and Ozark Henry. Oldies from Toni Di Bart, Jimmy Cliff, and Brutus. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Read more

  • The Weak Image Speaks

    The camera—that profoundly liberal invention—whispers: I’m ready for anything.Give me chemicals, give me a little light,give me time and no shaking,and I will be done. A pocket-sized Enlightenment,believing every world is reachable,every surface printable,every body open to possibility. And now Read more