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  • Petervan’s Ride – September 2025

    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,… Read more

  • The Forbidden Question – Talk at UnitedXR Dec 2025

    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… Read more

  • Strange Letter #2 – Mammals and Computers

    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… Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – August 2025

    Petervan’s Musical Ride August 2025– 70+ songs. Recent releases include Ethel Cain, The Black Keys, and yingtuitve. Oldies from Sammy Virji, Marc Moulin, and Pretenders. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy! Read more

  • 3C – Peeling Layers – Episode #1

    3C – Peeling Layers – Episode #1

    For the past few months, I’ve been co-working on a new, still embryonic project—co-written and co-directed with Andreea Ion Cojocaru, enriched by the expertise of my cousin Joost, a PhD art historian, and further shaped through the collaboration of several contributing artists. Until now, I have only shared this project with a few people. Many… Read more

  • Strange Letter – Mammals and Computers

    Earlier this week, a letter appeared in my mailbox. No address, no sender’s name—only an envelope that felt older than the paper it was made from… And then, out of nowhere, a link appeared—a video, carrying almost the exact same words… Read more