As I was telling you after Philippinas I came back to China - Changzhou, as my relationship was in the end and Changzhou is a small chinese town and not many foreigners, not much there, I was already felling bad there and why not move somewhere else as the college. I was working has 9 schools in China, in different towns and also colleges in other countries.
I thought about Mumbai - India, I did a research about and I found out if I was feeling bad in China at this moment, go to India shouldn't be the right choice, then I thought what you mainly complain about Changzhou, it is a small chinese town, why not go to bigger one? I decided to ask to transfer to Shanghai, has a bigger college and it is a bigger city than Changzhou.
And yes, it was a relieve to be in Shanghai, basically you could find anything you want there. The school there also was great, I was working with 20 foreigner teachers just in my department - Visual Communication, all them specialized in interactive media and graphic design and I was working with other 2 Brazilians there, could speak a bit of Portuguese sometimes.
Always is great to move to a different environment, you feel yourself like a discoverying this new world around you. Funny enough even if all those foreigns and Chineses around me, I was feeling pretty lonely. But I discovered many things like the only Chinese girl friend I made there Elena, truly a good friend in the sense of the word friend. Well but we got on so well I believe because she lived in Europe for almost 10 years, it helps alot to interactive with someone from the western culture.
And found out again my deeply interested in music.
My brief story with music: I studied music when I was kid, classical music; when I was 18 years I was in a rock band in Brasilia (my hometown), pretty much experimental rock called Animais dos Espelhos.
Well everything about my own music production started when I lived in UK, I will talk more about it when I tell you about my story when I lived in Europe. Now lets centralized in my story with music in Shanghai.
As I said before Im living moving around the world now for 10 years, and I always wanted to produce music as I did before in Brasilia, but because my life style I needed to adapt what I want to do to the moment. As I'm a multimedia lecturer, I thought, you can do music by yourself now asday and I had a got in touch with many people doing it in UK, yes, electronic music as I already love it from my time in UK.
I bought some equipment to do it in China and I started to do it there as I was very lonely and not much interested in China anymore. Basically quite a few weekends I stayed at home producing music. In the college I was working has a Fashion course and I met a lecturer half Brazilian half Chinese that did 2 fashion shows and invited me to do the music for the show, experimental music, and wow it was a great chance for me to produce more seriously my music.
The link of a bit of these musics
http://www.icompositions.com/artists/Snevols
Each music had a concept based on the design of the clothes, was a amazing experience, as I needed to direct the sound of the composition to the idea of the clothes, it is just design, clothes+sounds and for me it was a very rich experience and apartt from working in the college, I was working with something that I love as much as interactive media, the subject I was teaching. Through the network websites, well not Facebook, Twitter, they are blocked in China, but a local one, I met quite a few people, mainly guys and I met a Malaysian one, sound designer.
We got on quite well, he loves experimental music as much as me, and we shared our experience composing music and... I thought I was in love for this guy because our such similar musical taste and I was...wrong!
Music is a connection, but it is very different from feelings like love.
Even attraction, you can have but is more attraction for the music.
Well I always had this dream that one day I would find a guy that like to produce music with very similar musical taste as mine. But yes it is a dream, but why be so fix on it? After this experience that I just told you, I detached more of this dream or illusion?
I guess I have it because since I know myself as Raquel, my life has a strong connection with music.
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