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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Danish, English; learning French, German
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Writing my master's thesis on activist street bands
  • Bachelor in musicology master in dramaturgy.
  • From Aarhus
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

let's do it ourselves...

ABOUT ME

All about me... hmm, never had that question before...

well here we go,

Appearance:

I'm 191 centimeters tall and weighing aproximately 92 kilos depending on the time of the year. Peaking around cristmas and Roskilde music festival.

I have relatively big feet, long arms and a charictaristic forehead. Sometimes people think I look like something Darwin would have liked to examine.

I wear second hand comfortable clothes, like colors and have plenty of dark blonde hair. Usually I'm unshaved unless there's a heat wave or a galla.

Physical behavior:

I tend to stroll more than walk, with my feet pointing a bit outward. A theater teacher once told me that my motorical centre was in my stomach. sometimes when I'm busy I navigate badly and hit furniture or street lights with my body.

I kiss my girlfriend on the mouth, I kiss my family members on the cheek, I hug my friends, I shake hands with my teachers and collaborators and I wave the grocer, the bus driver and the baker.

Sometimes I make 'mediterranean hands' pushing them upwards, if I get scared in the traffic. Or if I want to joke with on a slow companion.

I know how to interact properly in busses and in other public spaces. But I like to talk to strangers.
strangers tend to like to talk to me. Old women don't sit next to me in busses when I'm tired.

My eyes narrow when I read, think or worry

My eyebrows rise when I day dream or get surprised.

My eyes look up when I try to remember things

My cheeks rise when I meet sympathetic people

My face muscles are very tense when I sing.

My face muscles are relaxed when I sleep

Interests:

I play a black Welmeister accordeon with 42 keys which I have got very cheap from my russian teacher, who has a clever wife and a dangerously happy 40 kg bulldog, and tought me discipline on the belly organ.

The profound joy of music and piles of folk tunes I learned from my mother.

My father taught me how to play drums and how to work and interact as a musician at rural parties.

I play my instruments to invoke the emotions and energies encapsulated in the melodies and songs. Sometimes I play with a whole bunch of folksy singers in a pub or at dances. Other times I play secret jam sessions with a group of friends. everyday I play in solitary. Sometimes new songs appear.

I sing everyday, - songs that come to my mind while walking, biking, cooking, treeclimbing, and just living. I believe singing is giving people strength.

I believe my inspiration and attention rises and recovers when I spend time in nature. I sail in my sailboat, dive or fish with my friends. My preferred nature activity is trekking. Nothing clears up my mind like four days just walking and enjoying the landscape.

I'm almost though studying, which means that I probably will be a high school teacher in musicology and dramatugy within the next year. I'm looking forward to some good colleges and the oppertunity to
inspire students to dig; Brecht, Grotowski, the Odin theatre, Paolo Nani & Dario Fo, SKUTR, Enrique Vargas -
AND - West African, Baltic, Quebecois, Malgash and Nordic roots music, reggae, ska and the cultural history of rythm and resistance.

Academically I'm mostly influenced by the sociological approach, but at midnight in kitchen philosophy, I do have my own speculative interpretations of music.

to be continued...

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a couch.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Once time in Stockholm, once in Rostock

Interests

Roots Music, Street theatre, Philosophy, Sociology, Nature.

  • fish
  • singing
  • theater
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • walking
  • partying
  • pub crawls
  • clothing
  • music
  • drums
  • cycling
  • fishing
  • sailing
  • teaching
  • history
  • sociology

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark

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