I love to travel. Through my life so far it has been a great gift, getting to know people from another country, people with another type of life and with reflections that is new to me. I seem to experience this over and over, here in Oslo and also other places I have been to. This is what am interested in, learning and experiencing the diversity and nuance of how people live a life.

I love to dance, make music, listen to music loud, and to be together with my family and my friends. I enjoy gazing clouds and sunrise and sunset.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I find this a very interesting community. People helping people, not for money or commercial purpose, but because this is what people do and always have done. This positive and open approach to the world is very important to me. I want to be a part of this group of people and connect with likeminded and different minded people from everywhere. Let me know if you are in Oslo and want meet.

Centres d'intérêt

I am into music. Its what I do for a living, what I do for fun, and also what I do when am bored. These days am spending time in my studio in Oslo working on new productions, electronic music, minimal and tech house. I also love to play improvised music in different bands. My instrument is the synth, turntables and laptop, working like an experimental DJ as a part of jazz and impro groups with traditional instruments. Also I love doing club gigs as a DJ, mainly tech house and techno. I play together with two friends who does visuals and our parties are usually ridiculous. For live shows I play mostly in Norway, but also sometimes in Amsterdam and a little around europe.

• birds
• singing
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• coffee
• yoga
• partying
• clubbing
• technology
• traveling
• juggling
• music
• electronic music
• jazz
• commercial music

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

I listen to music many hours every day, and its so much different staff I love. The diversity in genre, style, time is without limits. If you are interested you can hear some of my mixes, here is one experimental, touching electronic, african, jazz++ called 20days Mix https://soundcloud.com/bendikbaksaas/20daysmix
Here is another one, this is a live recorded tech house mix: https://soundcloud.com/bendikbaksaas/nmhd-mixi

The other day I watched Naked Lunch for the first time. In a tender moment after working thru the whole night I put it on at seven in the morning. Was planning to pass out, but could not, was totally dragged into this hallucinogenic adventure. Amazing feel of the movie. And love the special effects from 1991.

I just finished "Suddenly, a knock on the door" by Etgar Keret. I love that book. Short texts, always inventive and with those small signs that let me view the world a little different. The short stories takes many crazy and unexpected turns, some of them leave me thinking for much longer time than it took to read the words.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Today my friend Kjetil made me breakfast. Delicious oat grain porridge with milk, butter, walnut, raisin, banana and ridiculous amounts of cinnamon. It was total delicious, I ate a full bowl and after we drank coffee from freshly crushed beans. Life is good.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I can teach DJ-ing, music production (electronic music), improvisation. I can also teach norwegian language and basic juggling (4 balls, 3 clubs).

I want to learn more about DJ-ing, music production and improvisation. I would also like to learn about making food, am not a great cook, but I like to do it and if I wasn't spending my eves on music I would use more time preparing good food. I like to get to know food from different places, cause its always interesting tasting something new.

I also want to learn more of yoga, and am interested in every variety of this practice.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Most important maybe would be to share music. I am open to most types of music, not so interested in commercial music, like very strict and simple pop music, except for that I can happily spend my time listen to most of music and sound. I love birds singing and sound of nature, water and so on. I think that if you are music interested it is very possible to spend some time together listening to different music. Am 100% sure I can show you something you haven't heard before, and am just as sure its also like that the other way around.

Else than that I am an open person, I like to learn new things, make mistakes and make an ass out of myself. I appreciate the constant change I experience every day, it is beautiful and inspiring.

Pays que j'ai visités

Denmark, France, Gambia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Kenya, Norway