CURRENT MISSION

Learning more and more about the world, as a means to understand more and more about myself. Trying to see the water, while inside of it. Having as much fun doing this as possible.

ABOUT ME

I am open-minded, culture lover, talkative, laughing most of the day, I like randomness.

I'm a researcher in Human Computer Interaction, its a bridge between design and engineering - and a musician.
I love to travel and meeting people, however, i need to be challenged most of the time.

Irrelevant fact#12: I'm know to make ideas come true in 20 minutes, and I can waste 20 minutes without any idea happening.

I make improvised music that somehow sits between Jazz & eletronics, you can hear some of it here: plopesmusic.org

PHILOSOPHY

Atheist, almost-fatalist-existential-nihilism-disbeliever that incoherently believes that:
- creativity is present amongst all human activities
- turntables are musical instruments
- tapping on the keyboard is boring.

TRAVELING

I've been to most corners of the world (a privilege really!), where I poorly picked up some languages that I'm trying to foster now, such as japanese, french and german.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Free to show people around Berlin! This is an amazing town and I want to keep it alive, by bringing new folks here. I'm fairly good with sub-culture and art-scene spots, and places that are opened all night with yommies, and rather not a good touristic-spot recommender.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Still fairly recent, I've hosted Jamie, Joao, Katrin, Joanna, and Martha! Modesty aside, all my friends aprove my hosting skills :)

Interests

I have studied arts, computer science and music. My main musical interests are impossible to define but circumnavigate: jazz, free-improvised music, hip hop, and most electronic music genres (from IDM to glitchy and dirty).
Lists on movies, books are too extensive to not bore the reader, ask me.

• cats
• arts
• culture
• books
• design
• partying
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• electronic music
• jazz
• atheism
• computer science
• engineering
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

books: (last things i've read are all by David Forster Wallace)
burroughs, 50% vonnegut's books,
70 % of phillip k dick, carrol, orwell, wells.

movies (it is all about the classics my friend):
Rear Window; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and for the matter, most of Kubrik's pieces (2001, eyes wide shut, barry); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Vertigo
Metropolis (and other Lang's classics, mabuse included)
American; beauty; Donnie Darko; Sideways (its about good wine.. yes! bring the syrah); dancer in the dark (i am a sucker for lars, and yes I like his erotic stuff!); twin p., mullholand, inland empire, blue velvet (yes it is a list); pleasantville; anything by studio ghibli (namely the genius of Miyazaki)

And i can laught, oh i can:
The Royal Tenenbaums (and other wes! e.g., darjelling); the rope (best movie ever)l monty python!; this is spinal tap!

music:
jazz: (miles, coltrane, mingues, chet baker, ornette, alice coltrane, rollins, braxton, and new european stuff, infinite list)
electronic: four tet, shadow, bonobo, alva noto, cex, another endless list
hip hop: madlib, gangstar, kid koala, jazzmatazz, guru, primo, ...
rock: mars volta, can, neu!, zechs, fujiya/miyagi
contemporary: stockhausen, boulez, nono,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being in: Tokyo playing music in a temple.
Giving a keynote at: Campus Party Europe for a mob of hungry young brains like mine.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Japan, Norway, Spain, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Portugal