CURRENT MISSION

After few years recording sounds in Europe and Asia we are back to France with sound happenings. We hope we'll offer great sounds about our trips !

ABOUT ME

We both like traveling with backpacks, by hitchhicking, walking, sailingboat... and we like sounds: musics and fieldrecording aswell. So,we connect both, traveling and sound recording in a long project Tamatam Sound Trip.

Now, we have a little boy travelling with us :-)

"I like drama, art in general as it is a good way to express ourself and connect people, yoga, traveling. I enjoy listening to music and radio, spending time on the terrace of a café watching around..." Melanie

"I play music for fun, I like sailing and meeting new friends. I like to take time to discuss about life, social organisation and non-profit (social) business. I also like cooking and know more about local recipes. " Tristan

PHILOSOPHY

go slow, take it easy ...be happy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We like traveling in different ways, going slowly, meeting people.
We try to be eco-friendly and slow life.
We'd like to meet lot of people who share ideas and values.
We wish to make meeting new people a goal of our "soundtrip"!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Several experiences since few years. We were hosting people where we were living in France.

Interests

Sound creations :
2013/2014 : Sound trip in Europe from Iceland to Turkey
2014/2015 : Sound Trip in Asia : Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Laos.

Travelling: by feet, hitch-hiking and sailing-boat!

We participate in different kind of alternative activities: LETS(Local Exchange Trade Systems), CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), housing cooperative, Non-violent Communication, permaculture, and so on.

We both practice yoga, enjoy camping in nature, hiking

• arts
• cooking
• recipes
• yoga
• sauna
• walking
• boating
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• camping
• sailing
• agriculture
• business
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Livres :
"The way of the world" by Nicolas Bouvier (In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass)
"Voyage d'une parisienne à Lhassa" by Alexandra David Néel
"La longue marche" by Bernard Ollivier
"Le peintre-roi aux 5 peaux, le pouvoir de l'art" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
« Ecology, community and lifestyle » Arne Naess
Etc etc
Music :
We like a lot of musics, world music, folk, jazz. We appreciate lyrics songs.
Jean Ferrat, Georges Brassens and Loe Ferre are still French poets!
Kimmo Pohjonen is a Finnish accordionist.
Jason Beck alias Chilly Gonzales, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Cesaria Evora, Mohammad Kushnawaz , Gilberto Gil, Erik Truffaz, Ez3kiel,
Cinéma :
Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Aki Kaurismaki, Ken Loach, Frères Dardenne, Abbas Kiarostani, Claude Sautet...
"かぐや姫" Kaguya-hime « princesse Kaguya »,2014 Isao Takahata
"Io sono Li" 2011 Andrea Segre
"Persepolis" 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
"The Night of the Hunter" 1955 Charles Laughton
"Straw Dogs" 1971 Sam Peckinpah
"Metropolis" 1927 Fritz Lang
"Le Cuirassé Potemkine, Броненосец Потёмкин" 1925 Sergueï Eisenstein ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We both experimented living abroad.

Meeting finnish people, naked in a sauna and being slapped by them with a bundle of birch twigs with fresh leaves!
Seeing northenlights while beeing in a icehole somewhere in the middle of Lapland.
Sleeping in the mild of will jungle in Guyana.
The birth of our son, of course ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

Melanie can organize drama workshops. I use drama as a tool to make people feel better, to connect people, to be creative...
We do like sharing our sounds with sound happening we can organize with our hosts! We can play our sounds, record some new with you, showing you how to record and the how to mix on a pc...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Feel free to contact us eventhough you just need a place to rest, we do understand if you are tired.
We might have free time to show you around, the nature.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Dominica, Estonia, Finland, French Guiana, Gambia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Martinique, Montenegro, Myanmar, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Finland, France, French Guiana, Martinique