Hi there! I'm a 28 year old musician/teacher living in my hometown Gibraltar after just completing my masters degree in Music Composition at Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA. I can’t host over night but I do own a car and can help you find your way around Gibraltar. I've recently been interested in Botany/Natural sciences and documenting native wild species of plants. Some of my photography and writing can be found on my Instagram: kiankhalilian

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing presents a great opportunity to meet new people and spend travel money on the things that matter: fun experiences with good company. I really like how couchsurfing can be used as a tool to help travelers bypass the sometimes-predatory tourism industry– I’m totally all about that.

Interests

• photography
• art
• film
• rollerblading
• experimental music
• botany
• sustainable living
• natural science
• specialty coffee
• new music

Music, Movies, and Books

Some Music:
Catherine Lamb 'three bodies (moving)', 'Parallaxis Forma', ' Curva Totalitas'.
Linda Catlin Smith 'Among the Tarnished Stars'
Morton Feldman 'for Bunita Marcus'
Jurg Frey 'Fragile Balance'
J.S Bach– WTC I Prelude and fugue in C-sharp minor BWV 849

(and so much more music...)

Some Movies:
Abbas Kiarostami–'Taste of Cherry', 'Close up', 'The Wind Will Carry Us."
Bi Gan– 'Long days journey into night'
Rainer Fassbinder– 'Ali: Fear Eats the Soul'
Hiroshi Teshigahara– 'Woman in the Dunes'

(...and many more...)

Some Books:
James Joyce– 'Dubliners' (I want to read more Joyce)
J.M Coetzee– 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
François Jullien– 'In Praise of Blandness'
Hermann von Helmholtz– 'On the Sensations of Tone: as a physiological basis for the theory of music'
Howard Zinn– 'A People's History of the US'

(again...there are so many more to add to this list.)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Racing sailboats around the bay of Gibraltar for over 10 years :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you guitar/music theory or how to write your own music! Maybe we can write music together. I can also teach you how to rollerblade or juggle or solve a Rubik’s cube or make a paper crane (origami). I can also get you started on learning how to identify wild or cultivated plants or teach you about Iranian/Persian cuisine. I have so many hobbies and random/often useless skills it’s hard to keep up sometimes

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Gibraltar, United States