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I am a Belgian composer, former development worker and apparently rather unsuccessful retiree. My professional life took me through Angola, Namibia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, and in 2017 I worked with the European Disability Forum on an EU–UNICEF programme protecting children from violence and promoting the inclusion of children with disabilities in the Western Balkans and Türkiye. Retirement was supposed to make life quieter. Instead, I became an independent guardian for unaccompanied refugee minors, joined the Supervisory Commission and Complaints Committee of Ghent Prison, began teaching French online—and composed several hundred pieces of music. Evidently, I misunderstood the instructions. My music travels as widely as I once did: from cinematic and contemporary compositions to jazz, classical reimaginings, world traditions, film scoring and musical reflections on art, history, memory and human conscience. Modern technology—including carefully domesticated AI—sometimes assists, but the curiosity, choices, mistakes and occasional flashes of inspiration remain entirely human. I do not compose for money—which, as a business model, has proved admirably consistent—but for the joy of discovering where an unfinished melody might lead. I am happily married, father of four, grandfather, and still convinced that music can cross borders more easily than people are sometimes allowed to. Music Without Borders.
