here's some of my music as composer, songwriter, producer, arranger and singer: www.johannesflecker.com

CURRENT MISSION
explore new, unusual and exciting things in the world

ABOUT ME
explore the world, create music, write and perform songs, building my own company in the U.S., (www.getsoundleadership.com), doing the unexpected, grow, laugh about the little things of life. being funny when people don't expect it, up for new and crazy things

PHILOSOPHY
If you want to do something you have never done before, you have to do something you have never done before.
If you want to go somewhere you have never been before you have to go somewhere you have never been before.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

get to know people, share stories, making friends from all over the world

Interests

Composition, Music Production, Singing, Songwriting, Piano, Architecture, Good Humour, traveling (of course), Startup Life

My music and more: www.johannesflecker.com

• culture
• singing
• performing arts
• architecture
• traveling
• music
• piano

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: funny, uplifting, suspense, or great fantasy: Slumdog Millionaire, Hopscotch, LOTR, Hitchcock movies (Vertigo, Torn Curtain), Godfather, Dark Knight, Inception, Shutter Island, A Fish Called Wanda, Life of Pi, James Bond, the Naked Gun, Goodfellas, Scarface - not up to date with shows...

MUSIC: as a music producer - all great music, from J.S. Bach to Jamiroquai, Zedd, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, EDM, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Madeon, the great classical piano concerts, Rachmaninow, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Barbra Streisand, Tiesto, Ellie Goulding, Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, A.L. Webber, Brian Eno

BOOKS: Stefan Zweig, Neale Donald Walsch, books about spirituality, Footprint, Moon and Lonely Planet travel guides, architecture books, all that TASCHEN is publishing, esp. the huge Michelangelo and daVinci books, Agatha Christie, Marlen Haushofer, biographies about great figures like Magellan, Marie Antoinette, Calvin, Lincoln, music production books - yes, setting up right EQs and compression is super interesting

FOOD: all vegetarian (including shrimps...), Indian, Vietnamese, Thai food, Austrian pastries (the best in the world) including Scheiterhaufen, Apfelstrudel and Salzburger Nockerln, Malaysian Mango Curry, veg Ramen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I left a management career behind, moved to the US and studied music production and vocal performance at the coolest music school in the world in Boston.

performed at Boston Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops

being among a huge crowd of tens of thousand of people in South Indian temple of Tirupati

experiencing the India-Pakistan border

celebrating Chinese New Year in the mountains of Vietnam

standing in front of the Iguacu falls

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music, Singing, Piano, Songwriting, stories about traveling and living in three continents, German language, Austrian culture, how to travel in India and the best places to go in India, crazy stories about overnight buses and trains

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, France, India, Spain, Switzerland, United States

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