CURRENT MISSION

Discovering music cultures of this world and beyond

ABOUT ME

You can get some information about me (academic side) on UC Davis pages: http://music.ucdavis.edu/people/graduate-students

Self-issued a CD of field recordings of traditional singing from North Slovenia (see the link in Slovenian language -- http://gorsihljudi.blogspot.com/ )

Worked 8 years at Slovenian alternative radio, Radio Student, Ljubljana (http://www.radiostudent.si/)

Have a website about house shows: http://houseshowszine.wordpress.com/

PHILOSOPHY

In constant process.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Through sharing and traveling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Once in Portland, a year ago. Otherwise lots of different couch and other types of traveling experiences.

Interests

Music, independent and art movies, ethnomusicology, pop culture, alternative cultures, traditional cultures, food, urban and natural environments, did I mention music?
Otherwise, a UC Davis student, beginning with my PhD research (on house shows in USA).

• arts
• culture
• singing
• dining
• movies
• traveling
• music
• folk music
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies (some): Himmel uber Berlin, Dead Man, Mystery Train, Short Cuts, Magnolia, Wild Strawberries, Breaking the Waves, Yi Yi, 3-Iron, Chungking Express, Oldboy, Happyness, Stalker, Gegen Die Wand, Fargo, Everything is illuminated, Sex, Lies and Videotapes, Dr Strangelove, Slacker ...
Books (some): 100 years of solitude, Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy (all parts), Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat, Trout Fishing in America ...
Music (some): anything from Captain Beefheart to Ornette Coleman, from Louis Armstrong to John Zorn, from Charlie Parker and Monk to Otomo Yoshihide and Han Bennink, from PIL to Big Black, from Dirty Three to Tortoise, from E.T. Mensah to Taraf de Haiduks, from kabuki and ganga to kuduro and jaipongan, from Kraftwerk to T.Raumschmiere, from Can to The Ex, from Themselves to RJD2 ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Marriage celebration in Tunisia, hich hiking all over Europe and Turkey, my ethnographic research (village folk music traditions in Slovenia, and house shows in the US) ...

Teach, Learn, Share

Music/Culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Slovenia, United States