Research related:
Music related:
- discogs
- bruine beer, featured on bandcamp daily’s ‘Best New Ambient Music’ here. Also see vuilbak recordlabel, also here.
Other biographic trivia:
- Vegetarian, preferably vegan, I enjoy cooking.
- No driver’s license, strongly opposed to all cars. I like cycling, trains are a good alternative.
- Cat person. Dogs are OK, but for unclear reasons they tend not to like me
- I like to consider myself an amateur bryologist and mycologist.
- Favorite programming language: Julia; interested in Haskell and other FP languages, but somehow I never get off the ground with it for real.
- Favorite software tools: pandoc, vim, cmus, vimwiki.
- Favorite literary authors: W. F. Hermans, Hugo Claus, Gerard Reve, Michel Houellebecq, Céline, Imre Kertesz, Vladimir Nabokov, Milan Kundera, John Steinbeck, Patricia de Martelaere, …
- Favorite other authors: Immanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard, Isabelle Stengers, Robert Rosen, Robert Ashley, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Edwin Jaynes, J. B. S. Haldane, Harold Jeffreys, Bruno de Finetti, Raymond Smullyan, Paul Halmos, Kurt Gödel, …
- Favorite doesn’t mean I read everything, or even much, let alone understand, but rather reflects the tendency to talk enthusiastically about something in pub conversation.
Some things on the internet I often find myself recommending:
- Every recorded opera by Robert Ashley (or here)
- This documentary about Marvin Gaye’s time in Ostend
- Deze documentaire over W. F. Hermans
- John Cage’s library
- De interviews van W. F. Hermans, Willem Oltmans, Gerard Reve, Hugo Claus en nog één met Hermans met Adriaan van Dis
- Nog een interview met Gerard Reve
- eilandeilanden
- Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire
- Joe Felsenstein’s free popgen book
- John Cage on silence
- Morton Feldman & John Cage talking for four hours
- I like to begin the day by taking care of the plants, and then end it by playing a game of chess. Not end the day, but, so to speak, the working day. After that, I start going to the devil.
- An interview with Frederic Rzewski in lovely american french in a pub (in Brussels?).
- Marcel Duchamp interview
- Probably the most significant thing in Ghent: the Logos robot orchestra
- Low-tech magazine
- Retsen Detsen, soms ook in Trefpunt
- Bike repair in Ghent
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