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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Music (I play the clarinet)
  • Music studies
  • From Paris and Strasbourg, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To have a happy and free life

ABOUT ME

I am a clarinetist and clarinet teacher Lyon. I love to improvise, but I also play classical music and new music. I play the Turkish clarinet too.
I like good deep conversations but also to dance and have fun, go to bars.I practice aikido and zen meditation.I try not only to practice my clarinet the whole day but also to be open to all kinds of arts. I would like to travel more often in the wild. I am interested in the degrowth movement and all kind of positive ideas that could make our society totally sustainable and meaningful.

PHILOSOPHY

I try not to judge nothing nor anybody and I try to understand the differences. I live and make music to meet people around the world and to create something really worthy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed two couches for a short times and I met each times nice people quite different than me. That is great!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

One time in Boston. It was awesome, I met a guy from another planet and we talked a lot together and spent some very good time together. One night in New Orleans.Twice in San Francisco. the second time was awesome!I wish I would stay more...

Interests

- every kind a music. Absolutely every kind.
- all the arts: the cinema, theater, dance, painting architecture and the literature especially the French of the 19th century, the German one and the American Classics
- love to dance
- hiking, biking
- travel, travel, travel!
- to cook,especially for somebody.

  • arts
  • humanities
  • literature
  • theater
  • architecture
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • meditation
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • painting
  • music
  • classical music
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies
"Lost in translation" of Sofia Coppola.
"The Castle in the Sky" of Miyazaki.
"2001 Space Odissey" and all the movies of Stanley Kubrick

Music:
Penderecki, Ligeti, Schnittke,Grisey, Brahms, Mozart, Miles Davis, Free jazz, Mano Negra and Manu Chao, Georges Brassens, etc..

Books:
"The Magic Mountain" Thomas Mann
Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky, Hermann Hesse, etc...

Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Francis Bacon, Gothic Architecture

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A lonely travel from Strasbourg to Prag mainly with the bike and some train. I loved this kind of slow travel, and I LOVED Prag. This city is literally amazing!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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