As I said in the last post, I guess I have it because since I know myself as Raquel, my life has a strong connection with music.
If you've checked my link that I've posted in my last post, you got in touch with the music style I produce; has many experimental electronic musicians that work on this style, experimental electronic music, for instance the one that I love (errerrhh can't say it, remember?!) I like a lot
HIS MUSIC
Amon Tobin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_Tobin
And has many more that are in this record label Ninja Tunes
http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/artists.php
And has another one Warp Records
http://warp.net/
These 2 record labels are the best ones to find out more about experimental electronic music and of course check out Amon Tobin, by the way, he is from Ninja Tunes record label and ah he is Brazilian!
I would like to show a bit of my music here, but my music is interconnect with some moments of my life and would like to post it in amother post to be able to explain why the music is so strange maybe, different maybe.
Funny enough, I compose music for my pleasure, not to earn money (if it comes, very good!); as many call, is it a hobby!?
So I would like to explain and discuss with you my hobby - music :)
Friday 15 October 2010
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Back to China - Shanghai
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.
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.
Sunday 10 October 2010
Asia Holidays - Philippinas
Here I go now for the best holiday place in Asia, Philippinas!!
I loved completely the place, the people, it is paradise!!
Do you know what means for them Phillipinas (has another name in their language, but I don't remember it now) , it is the land of one thousand islands and it is true!
I never will forget when I arrived in Phillipinas by plane, god! You have a view from a God, the water very blue and transparent and yes many islands quite a few very small, when I saw it I believed completed I found the right option for my holidays.
And I was really impressed, I've been there for holidays twice, both times I've been in Cebu Island. Cebu is a big town for Philipinas, it is a island, industrialized, so for me a city girl was the right option and of course paradise place, but you need to look for it, it is not just in front of you when you arrive there, you have many islands there that are paradise just in front of you. Depends what you want, and I do like to explore places, for me be away a bit from the paradise places was better to explore, find them around.
I recognize a bit the Latin culture,their Spanish side, they were colonized first by Spain and after US went there, they still very strong influences of both countries in their culture. The Spanish language some of them, old generation can speak a bit, all them speak English, but they have their own language, it is a mix of Spanish with some other language if even them don't know the origins.
But they have their Asiatic influences? I didn't think they have much, almost no Chinese culture there, a few Chinese living there, but they are so bloody differents from the Chinese from the China mainland, where I was living there.
And the people so sexy, men and women! I was missing it so much living in China!
I didn't have any love affair there, they are sexy, but don't attract me, but I saw and heard about many men that go there because the filipinas, and women too looking for the filipinos. Doesn't surprise me, Brazil is like that, it is the sex industry, but it is not only Phillipinas and Brazil all the countries around the world they have this industry. In case I'm just talking about the ones where I saw it.
And it makes sense as they are very sexy people! In China for instance doesn't make sense for me.
But I wasn't there for this reason as I already was with my French boyfriend Ronan in China, so no need to look for people in general for this sexy reason.
You should be asking yourselves why she didn't go with this boyfriend? I told you before I like to travel alone too and by this time I wanted to travel alone.
Next trip we went together to Phillipinas, but it wasn't a good situation between us by this time, I just had the miscarriage I've mentioned before in this blog and we were not exactly a happy couple by this moment.
It was a funiest holiday, we had a few arguments and he didnt enjoyed Philippenas as much as me, it sucked myself about our relationship as I was already feeling the end of it and it came just after we back to China. In this aspect it was not an unforgettable holiday in Philippinas, but it is still one of my favorites places to spend holidays!
I loved completely the place, the people, it is paradise!!
Do you know what means for them Phillipinas (has another name in their language, but I don't remember it now) , it is the land of one thousand islands and it is true!
I never will forget when I arrived in Phillipinas by plane, god! You have a view from a God, the water very blue and transparent and yes many islands quite a few very small, when I saw it I believed completed I found the right option for my holidays.
And I was really impressed, I've been there for holidays twice, both times I've been in Cebu Island. Cebu is a big town for Philipinas, it is a island, industrialized, so for me a city girl was the right option and of course paradise place, but you need to look for it, it is not just in front of you when you arrive there, you have many islands there that are paradise just in front of you. Depends what you want, and I do like to explore places, for me be away a bit from the paradise places was better to explore, find them around.
I recognize a bit the Latin culture,their Spanish side, they were colonized first by Spain and after US went there, they still very strong influences of both countries in their culture. The Spanish language some of them, old generation can speak a bit, all them speak English, but they have their own language, it is a mix of Spanish with some other language if even them don't know the origins.
But they have their Asiatic influences? I didn't think they have much, almost no Chinese culture there, a few Chinese living there, but they are so bloody differents from the Chinese from the China mainland, where I was living there.
And the people so sexy, men and women! I was missing it so much living in China!
I didn't have any love affair there, they are sexy, but don't attract me, but I saw and heard about many men that go there because the filipinas, and women too looking for the filipinos. Doesn't surprise me, Brazil is like that, it is the sex industry, but it is not only Phillipinas and Brazil all the countries around the world they have this industry. In case I'm just talking about the ones where I saw it.
And it makes sense as they are very sexy people! In China for instance doesn't make sense for me.
But I wasn't there for this reason as I already was with my French boyfriend Ronan in China, so no need to look for people in general for this sexy reason.
You should be asking yourselves why she didn't go with this boyfriend? I told you before I like to travel alone too and by this time I wanted to travel alone.
Next trip we went together to Phillipinas, but it wasn't a good situation between us by this time, I just had the miscarriage I've mentioned before in this blog and we were not exactly a happy couple by this moment.
It was a funiest holiday, we had a few arguments and he didnt enjoyed Philippenas as much as me, it sucked myself about our relationship as I was already feeling the end of it and it came just after we back to China. In this aspect it was not an unforgettable holiday in Philippinas, but it is still one of my favorites places to spend holidays!
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