CURRENT MISSION

Go Back To College!! _ done!! Graduated May 2022

Master Musik in Deutschland

**Note: it’s been about five years since I’ve been active on the site, but I’m finally able to travel again! So my profile is a bit outdated, but I did add some more recent photos! Right now I’m taking a few weeks for fun travel as I just spent a week playing Aufnahmeprüfungen (music auditions) in Germany.

ABOUT ME

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"Art is cheap! Art is good bread!"

--Bread and puppet theater, glover, VT

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PHILOSOPHY

Never let reality cloud the arena of your imagination. Try to limit exposure to advertisements, like sunscreen. Focus. Protect your hearing. Listen to the same thing over and over until you know everything about it. Don't believe what anyone says. Define with feelings, not words. Never underestimate the shortcomings of analytical thinking.

And always try to phrase things in the positive.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The Johnny Appleseed of group singing-- constantly proselytizing, but in the end it's all for our own hedonistic enjoyment.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Istanbul, Utah, Nevada, Chicago, Missouri, Germany, and hosting in Isla Vista

Centres d'intérêt

Music - Western art music, folk music from around the world (especially American Shape-note and Georgian vocal music), dubstep, trap, glitch hop, and breaks, DJing and EDM culture, Radiohead, reggae, The Beatles, yummy food, running, hiking, psychology and consciousness, contradancing

• arts
• culture
• singing
• theater
• dining
• cooking
• running
• music
• folk music
• hiking
• camping
• muslim
• teaching
• languages
• law
• psychology
• mountains

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Music- see above.
East of Eden, A Time of Gifts, the autobiography of Malcolm x, Maya Angelou, The Great Gatsby, Haruki Murakami, Thomas Mann, This is Your Brain on Music, Vera Pavlova, James Joyce,

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I spent three weeks in the mountains of Svaneti learning traditional Georgian songs from an old songmaster named Islam Pilpani. He didn't speak a word of English, and shouted the songs out to us, drilled us, and didn't let much slip by. Near the end of the tour, we were able to interview him through a translator. He told us the best thing we can do with what we've learned is to teach Svan music abroad, so the music will live on. An incredible teacher and person. Thank you, Islam.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

harmony singing, banjo, cooking, and classical voice-- all of these are available to you, straight from my cranium!

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Music, stories, coffee, and most of all, excellent conversation.