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  • Sine Parole – 23 Oct 2019

    Petervan Artwork © 2019 – Insta360 ONE camera – Soundscape in Ableton Live Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – Oct 2019

    The latest version of Delicacies is here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan/issues/petervan-s-delicacies-issue-125-193906 Enjoy!   Read more

  • Breaking Hierarchies

    Following my post “Who is the composer?”, I got the opportunity to have a conversation with the man himself: Ozark. He told me the story of what happened when he tried to conduct a philharmonic orchestra for a film soundtrack he had written. I did not know he wrote a score for a film, but… Read more

  • Who is the composer? Who wrote the score?

    Sometimes, the orchestra metaphor is used in leadership contexts, representing the leader as the conductor, steering/leading the orchestra. I believe the asymmetric relationship of the “leader” with his/her “followers” is a flawed metaphor.  The more interesting and critical question is “Who wrote the score?”. In other words, “Who is the composer?”. I already alluded to… Read more

  • Imagining worlds you believe in

    As mentioned in my August 2019 update, I am helping a client with an immersive leadership offsite. I am starting to label this sort of work “Artistic interventions, interruptions, and provocations that lead to higher states of alertness and aliveness.” Coincidently, Sarah Perry just posted her swan song essay on “Meaning as Ambiguity”, referring to the… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 11 Aug 2019

    There is a new edition of Petervan’s Delicacies. Number 124. An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. As an appetizer, the last one on this edition is about Nakatomi Space, the tower that McClane explores in Die Hard via elevator shafts and air ducts, crashing through windows from the outside-in… Read more