Hello there!

My name is Floris, I grew up in Flanders, but settled (living and working as a sound engineer) in Brussels (and don't want to go back to Flanders anymore :) )

I love movies (and going to the cinema often), reading, playing music on my guitar, dancing , swimming, listening to (alternative/experimental/heavy/classical) music

love exploring everything related art related (but am interested in many things) , exchanging (or just listening to) stories with/of other Couchsurfers and sharing experiences would be something I'm looking for on CS.

I am rather a calm, not always talkative, but easygoing and assertive person.

I live in a nice, but smaller sized apartment, of around 55-60 square meters, and I could host you in the living room (I can offer a sleeping mat and a relatively large inflatable air mattress, and of course bed sheets) .

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is for me a great way of discovering, sharing and learning, and for me a more interesting way of getting to know a place as a tourist. The possibility to make friends or to create a deeper connection with someone like minded. I also like to host, share my passion for Brussels with everyone who is curious to know

Interests

I am specialised as an post production sound engineer, which means that I basically treat the sound of audiovisual media, after image editing has been completed. At the moment I mainly work on television related jobs.

In my free time I am interested in reading about, listening to field recording, and sometimes record environmental sounds on a little recorder myself when I am walking through Brussels (or other places

Casual stuff I know some things about: I know a lot about the Belgian craft beer scene and I am very passionate in making filtercoffee. :p

• arts
• books
• theater
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• opera
• swimming
• philosophy
• sound engineering
• classical guitar
• existentialism
• field recording
• art house movies
• audio postproduction

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to a lot of thing, but lately mainly to: ambient, electronica, alternative pop, classical music, black and post metal.

I am a sucker for European movies of the 60's (french new wave and connected movements in Italy, Czech) , but I generally love art movies (and low budget indie productions) coming from all over the globe.

Some of the movies I personally resonated with are Taipei Story, Les Parapluis de Cherbourg, There Will Be Blood, Persona, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Satantango.

I like filmmakers of the like of Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawasé, Marguerite Duras, Angela Schangelec, Bela Tarr, Godard, Bergman, David Lowery. It feels almost a bit obnoxious to mention Kubrick :p .

I love reading classic novels/literature works, with some of my favorite authors Maggie Nelson, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Nietzsche.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Written music for a theater piece when I was 20.

- seen Max Richter perform his 8 hour long 'Sleep'-piece at night in the cathedral of Antwerp.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach guitar (obviously) , and I badly want to learn dancing

update: I took some tango classes in 2021... To be continued...

What I Can Share with Hosts

a meal and I can play some guitar (obviously). :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium