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  • 21 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • music maker
  • conservatory
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About Me

ABOUT ME

I studied guitar and (experimental) composition in the Gent Conservatory. Now i'm working in the Logos Foundation, a center for experimental music , where i make music with and write software for musical robots and some other high-tech stuff.

As a musician, i play abroad quite often, but seldomly have much time to see the places i come or to meet the locals, so i would like to travel a bit more just for the sake of traveling as well as meet other travellers comming to Gent.

In my free time i like to hang out with my friends, go to concerts and parties, but i'm also involved in some political/ecological/social/... projects.

PHILOSOPHY

my thoughts are usually way too chaotic to put them it in a short and coherent description, but we can talk about it when we meet :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By surfing and hossting. both through official CS and informal friend networks.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

had some people staying at my place before i joined couchsurfing, that i met in other ways then through this site.
by now i had a severaal couchsurfers staying at my place and have been surfing other peoples couches a couple of time. Most of the time it where very good experiences.
now i hope to find some couches in Croatia this summer..

Interests

lots of different kinds of music - computers (as long as they serve as a creative tool) - nature and ecology - vegetarianism - travelling - grassroots politics - anti-authorianism - anti-copyright and the open source movement - alternative (sustainable) economies - modern art

  • arts
  • modern art
  • concerts
  • partying
  • politics
  • technology
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • surfing
  • ecology
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

music
in no particular order - some of it i like for sitting and listening to, other for dancing or just as a background:
experimental music (whatever that may mean - i find everything that doesn't sound like anything i heard before interesting for at least a couple of minutes) - electroacoustic music - late renaissance music (especially John Dowland) - IDM and microsound - Conlon Nancarrow- Erwin Stache - Autechre - Horst Rickels - Xingu Hill - Giacinto Scelci - Earle Brown - Breakcore - Bong Ra - Ryoji Ikeda - Steve Reich - Yannis Kyriakides - Peter Jacquemyn - The earlier work of Stockhausen - Fransisco Lopez - James Tenney - Duran Duan Duran - KOG theorem - John Cage - Morton Feldman - Venetian Snares - R. Murray Schaffer - Autechre - Phill Niblock - David Tudor - Aaron Spectre - Fennesz - Girolamo Frescobaldi - Alvin Lucier - Sonic Youth - Tom Johnson - Klangkrieg - Jaap Blonk - Bjork - ...

movies:
I'm not that much of a movie fan, but i like movies with a special twist like the ones of David Lynch or Peter Greenaway, .
I also like old abstract and/or surrealist shortfilms like the ones by Oskar Fischinger, Man Ray, The Whitney brothers, ...

books
used to read a book a day in average as a teenager. by now i have less time for it..
books i have been reading recently:
'Electronic Civil Disobedience' by Critical Art Ensemble - 'Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music' by Miller Puckete - 'The Society of the Spectacle' by Guy Debord - 'The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism' by Hakim Bey - 'Le droit à la paresse' by Paul Lafargue

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being guided by a local couple from Cazuta, Peru to the Tunutunumba waterfalls, alomst breaking my neck, but the journey and the sight of the waterfalls where really worth it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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