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Moved to The Hague a year ago, although I am looking for a place with more nature around. Making more time for myself to make and play music through various projects, and am going to make more time for it! Looking for a nice (short) course on music production and audio engineering. Still working as a freelancer, now in my 14th year of business! Personally doing a lot of self-exploration.
After years of having the idea to do something with teaching I got connected to Mind.Mingle() and just finished teaching at the 10-week bootcamp, which was a great (and intense) experience. Now entering the six-month job search period, where we guide them to their first job!
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🎧 Music
- Researching music production/audio engineering courses to level up my skills.
- Had an amazing drumcamp with Benny Greb and Gavin Harrison. Now putting all I've learned to practice: rudiments with displacing accents, working on timing with click gaps, working on my inner-mixer (volume balance per limb).
- The new Liquid YS track called "M" is out now. Listen to "M".
- Just recorded an EP with my band Karvel at Small Pond Studio, Brighton. Busy with mixing, mastering and making videoclips.
- Learning to play piano.
✨ Miscellaneous
- Used to play Padel weekly with a nice group, but had to stop because of planning issues. Now looking for individual matches, hit me up if you want to play a game!
- Doing weekly Taiko drum-lessons! It's a new approach to drums and definitely a full body workout.
- Exploring how to be more mindful about myself by focussing on the seven types of rest.
- Slowly learning to read/decipher Cyrillic.
📚 Reading
- The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)
Brett, Peter V. - Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche
Plotkin, Bill - Design for How People Learn (Color Book), 2nd Edition [Paperback]
Dirksen, Julie
💻 Freelance work
- Guiding four junior fullstack developers towards their first job at MindMingle.
- Preparing content and workflow to start coaching developers on a regular basis. More info soon!
- Working for Qdrop as a freelance frontend developer.
- Working for Schiphol as a freelance fullstack developer.