I'm 24 years old musician, singer-songwriter and sound producer for film and music from St. Petersburg, Russia. Play guitar and sing in a band. Love meeting people and exchanging experiences about our beautiful world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love travelling, and especially love meeting new people of different nationalities, citizenship, mentality. And I want to avoid having "touristic" experience and prefer "real local life" experience. I will be so happy to hang out with people and have new friends from all over the world. I also love my own city of Saint-Petersburg and ready to show it from my point of view, tell the history and show the sights, touristic and local, bring to the popular places one will hardly find in touristic brochures.

Interests

Music, Sound, Literature, Cinema, Architecture, History (especially 19th and 20th centuries), Art. I love playing guitar, composing music, reading books (novels, romans, biographies, books about music bands), watching movies, can't live a single day without walking around the city.

• cats
• writing
• books
• poetry
• singing
• concerts
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• sports
• art
• health
• sound design
• sound art

Music, Movies, and Books

🎼Music

Electronic, indie, pop, classical, art-pop, alternative, r’n’b, rap, nu-metal and much more!

Radiohead, Everything Everything, Apparat, Eminem, Drake, Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, Deftones, Pink Floyd, Oasis, Foals, Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, Petr Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Dmitry Shostakovich and much much more!

🎬Movies

I especially like such movies, as "Schindler's List", "Godfather", "Way to the Top", "400 beats per second", "Scent of Woman", "Forrest Gump" and many many many other great movies, I just stop here because otherwise the list will be enourmous.

Love such seasons as “Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", "House M.D.", Mr Robot and few more.

📙Books

love Russian classics, such as Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", Tolstoy "War and Peace", Gogol "Dead Souls", Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Jivago”.

"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens, "99 Franks" by Frederic Begbeder, John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath", “Shantaram”. Also I love "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and biographic books about musicians such as "Pink Floyd" by Nick Maison or "U2 by U2".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

produced full sound and composed music for a short movie in Russian in 2018 (along with few other movies in previous years). Won a prize for it! Also gonna release an album with my band soon!

Teach, Learn, Share

I compose music, play guitar, sing and write lyrics in a band, play drums, a bit of piano, bass. So you can either discuss it with me, ask for advice or even ask for help or to teach you something - I'll be glad to help!

I graduated University and have a Specialist in Sound Arts diploma, also I’m doing professional work in a recording studio and work in movie industry! So I can teach you some recording, mixing or mastering techniques, teach you Logic Pro X (Digital Audio Workstation, DAW, for Macintosh).

I could teach you Russian, or how to play guitar or tell you about movie industry in Russia and my experience of working there as a music composer and sound producer.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my Russian language skill, my sound-engineering skills (teach/give advice/discuss), my composing/arrangement knowledges, can play music with you, can tell you Russian history, discuss the history of Cinema (I study in Saint-Petersburg University of Cinema and Television), can just have fun and fool around! I love having fun.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Russian Federation