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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Summer mission is to play music on the street with 2 of my bandmembers. First stop Pula, and then going down south, Rijeka, Zadar, Šibenik, Split. I also have in plan to be in Vodnjan, Istra on 17th of August, James Carter Organ Trio has a concert.
ABOUT ME
Studied for 6 years saxophone and music theory at Music school ''Franjo Kuhač'' in Osijek.
I play alto saxophone for over 9 years. My main musical focus is jazz, but also every other style of free, spontaneous, improvised music. I've been a skateboarder from 1998 untill 2011, been on several croatian contests over the years (in Zagreb, Osijek, Slavonski Brod, Vukovar). I'm a member of Big Band Art Club Osijek. I also co-lead Olujić-Lamza jazz quartet. I love reading, meditating, playing music and talking about life, love and art. I'm very interested in chakra system of the human body and experimentation with techniques that alter and expand consciousness. I love meeting other people and learning from them just about everything I can learn. :)
PHILOSOPHY
If you want to change something, start by changing yourself... everything will follow. :)
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I'm new to this site and I haven't had any CS experience.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
So far none. I'm new to CS.
Interests
Music - listening and creating my own music
Traveling -anywhere
Philosophy - Truth cannot be decribed,just experienced!
Extreme sports - Skateboarding
Art
Altered states of consciousness
Books
Nature
Understanding emotions
Languages - how they divide and connect us
Lucid dreams - hope everybody experience them!
- arts
- books
- design
- concerts
- walking
- clubbing
- reading
- traveling
- music
- jazz
- skateboarding
- sports
- extreme sports
- history
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Mystery train - Jim Jarmusch
Books: Freedom from the Know - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heraclitus - Fragments
Ernest Hemingway - Old man and the Sea
Music: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Pepper, Randy Weston, Sarah Vaughn, Pat Metheny, Charles LLoyd.. the list goes on and on...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Walking the streets of Paris on a rainy day.
Listening to Kenny Garrett quartet in Pecs, Hungary.
Teach, Learn, Share
I am eager to learn anything no matter what it is. From String theory to Polyphony to Web design. I love new cognitions! :)
I have relatively narrow knowledge about world and Croatian history; music theory and harmony.
All of humanity is conected. We are not our names, jobs, bodies, thoughts. We are consciousness and we are here to learn and change. Only through looking within we can get a clear picture of what is outside. Life is a paradox. Too much analysis means paralysis! When someone is getting onyour nerves, it's always you, and not the other person!
Beware of your thoughts, because they create your reality! Beware of your words also. When you say Peace to someone you mean good but you are saying Piece, and we are in this mess because everybody are individual piece. We need Wholness, not pieces, to survive and evolve as a community of souls.
There is no death. PHIght ignorance!
Countries I’ve Visited
Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Croatia