CURRENT MISSION

offer a couch soon!!

ABOUT ME

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To be honest I should say that I'm definitely not a typical italian. I love to travel but only if the travel is aimed to something, in the specific I travel to discover, learn and develope different typologies of vocal music. I've been a "stage" singer for some years, then something told me that it wasn't enough... I discovered other possibilities in music, some potential not related to the entertainment, and I started to study a "mixture" of yoga and music which is called Dhrupad, and that's why I went twice to India and in Siberia.

PHILOSOPHY

I'd like to be an interface between the West and the East. I believe in the power of mutual understanding, consider me a human being with a heart.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

before the CS experiences I got accomodation only through friends met locally, most of the times the same day: great people who offered me a place to stay when I had the need.

Interests

I don't like music itself, but the consequences of it. My interests are: listening, ethnomusicology, photo shoting, talking,(good) movies, landscape worshipping when the light is appropriate and... many other activities like snowboarding, hiking, drinking, cooking (I cook pretty well ;-))

• cats
• dogs
• singing
• cooking
• yoga
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

mmm...

Books: Il Dio Delle Piccole Cose, Tuvan Throat Singing. Ethnomusicological Investigation, Il Concetto Di Musica, Il cielo azzurro, Where rivers and mountain sing, Sangita Ratnakara, Popoli artici e subartici, dalla penisola di Kola alla Čukotka, Perestroika and the pastoralists, Demetrio Stratos. alla ricerca della voce-musica, Shantaram, The Master and Margarita, Le Mille E Una Notte, Negli Occhi Dello Sciamano.

Music: The Dagar Brothers, Wasif ud-din Dagar, The Gundecha Brothers, Amit Bandhavi, Ben Harper, Zakir Hussain, Bob Marley ;-), Andrei Mongush, Huun Huur Tu, Imre Peemot, Chirgilchin, Maddhya Laya, Incubus, Stevie Wonder, Bahauddin Dagar... and something like 3000 performers of folk music from Sardinian Launeddas to Papua New Guinee rainforest beetle-like wishtles, from Australian Aboriginal Didjereedoos to the Inuit Katajjaqs, from Tuvan Khoomei-Kargyraa-Sygyt-Borbannadyr-Ezengyleer to greek Rembetika, and so on..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

oh, well, the endless, cold, lifeless steppe, the transiberian landscape, 12 Himalayan sunsets, a 720* stalefish underflip and (immediatly later) my left ankle's broken bones, a frozen spider, my 2 brothers birth, my male dog trying to have an intercourse with my male cat, Ustad Rahim Fahimuddhin Dagar Khan giving a senseless speach on music during a visit to Bhopal's music institute, a guy with a 20 cm wooden hair-stick completely pushed in the nose hole trying to drink 1 lt of stout... what else..

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach classical indian vocal music ("Dhrupad") which is related to the Yoga of the sound (Nada Yoga). I can teach siberian overtone singing ("Khoomei") as well as Western Harmonic Singing.
I'm an expert Mac user and a good photographer. I can make very nice protrait-pictures (on demand)!

I would love to learn how to: "Yodel", "drive" a sailboat, light a fire with nothing but two sticks (I often forget the lighter home..), whatever is taught with passion.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Malta, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Italy, United Kingdom