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Postgraduate Studies

  Well, we talked about our majors and what things we want to do for our future, which is so cool, but now we’ll talk about the postgraduate studies. For me it is so hard to think about it because I want to do a lot of things, maybe the thing that moves me the most is to study something related to sountraks, like a composer for audiovisual media for example. I’d like to study outside the country because I wanna live the experience of living outside, know other cultures and societies, and describe myself not from the experiences with the people who I share habits, culture, etc, but “find myself” in a context where I am an outsider. There’s 2 countries that I’d like to study something related to composing original soundtracks for audiovisual, Japan and the USA, because I think they have the biggest industries for OST’s. Also both countries amaze me in a lot of ways, Japan is such a cool country, with a cool urban style of life and also but also I love the connection that they have wi...

My future job

  Hello everyone, hope you’re doing ok! Today we’ll talk about our future job so… Nowadays I’m studying music (Theory of music), so in the future I want to make money with the music, but how? Is hard to tell, because for me it is so difficult to think of how to get a job with music, my dream is doing a lot of cool stuff. For example I’d like to compose for audiovisual media, like movies, video games, series, etc. because I love the soundtracks of those kind of things, and amaze me to think how wonderful would be to make music for a movie (for example) and see people chatting about how they liked the soundtrack. Also I like songwriting, and I’d love to have the opportunity to write and show my own songs, or make a band and play music with other musicians. During the quarantine I realized that I’d like to teach music, but not in a school,  maybe in the college or individual classes, because I love to explain about music and see how people began to develop knowledge, and makes me...

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Quarantine Hobbies

   Hello everyone, hope you’re doing very well. Today we have to talk about our hobbies during this quarantine, and this is hard for me because I’m studying a career about my capital hobbie jajajaja. So I’ll try to tell you about the things that I do when I’m not doing any musician thing… I think that the thing that uses a lot of my free time is Youtube, I watch a lot of hours on that website, the videos that I used to look for are podcasts, audiobooks, or videos that I can hear while I’m doing other things. Athoner thing that I’m doing during this quarantine is watch anime, I’m not consider myself as an otaku, but I love how the anime uses animation to create a lot of good stories. My last quarantine hobbie is take care of the garden, maybe a lot of people would think that is so boring, but I love to water the plants, and look over the nature, how it works. Sometimes I can watch the lizards, the birds and the insects for hours <3. Also It had been wonderful to watch “polo”...

Sleeping at zoomparties

 Well, first of all, I’m not the kind of person who used to remember embarrassing things, not because of the shame, or bad memorie, maybe it’s because I prefer not to remember? By the way, I will talk about the last embarrassing thing that happened to me. I was at a birthday party on Zoom, it was my first celebration since a looooooong time ago, and actually it was pretty funny. During the night I felt so cold because it was winter and my place feels like Siberia during that station, so I decided to turn on the “bed warmer” (I don’t know if its the right word) and lied down while I was hearing, the problem was that I was a little bit drunk and maybe lie down was the worst option, I fell asleep and the next morning and a lot of people send me messages because they were worried because they thought that something bad happen to me.  Maybe it’s not the most embarrassing thing in the world, but well, I felt bad for a moment because some people were worried about me.

The best concert where I've been

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  During this time of quarantine one of the thing that I miss the most is go to a live concerts, the feeling of been in the crown and scream, sing or just jump for me is awesome, and is hard to tell when we will live that again, so for this moment the only thing that we can do is wait, and remember the shows that we where in. Now, for me is so hard to tell wich one is my favourite, because I have strong feelings for a lot of shows, but for some reason that I don't know, this show in particular brings to me a lot of good memories, I wanna talk about Blur 2015.  The first thing that I remember was the great atmosphere, it was amazing because it felt so nice, it's hard to describe but I felt so good energy there. I arrived so early so I had to wait a lot of time, I thought that it'd been so boring, but I (cannot remember why) began to talk with a girl in the line, and also we began a conversation with a couple behind us, so It was pretty funny because we shared a lot of experi...

Zwitserland

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   Hello everyone, this is the first entry of this blogg during the second semester, hope you're doing ok during this time of quarantine and confinement. Today I wanna talk about one of the countries that I want to visit, and maybe if I have the chance, to live there for some years. That country is Zwitserland. Well, first of all I don't feel I have an strong link between me and that country, for example, With japon I think I have a cultural link, because I like the manga/anime, and  with Argentina I think I have an emotional link because I have family there, but with zwitserland I don't think I have one of them, so this makes me ask to myself why I feel obsessed with that country.   Thinking and thinking just got the conclusion that the environment is the thing that caught my attention... For me it is weird to describe, but everytime I search for Zwitserland on Google, I always get pictures with amazing views, with cities that seem to be compatible with nature,...

Writting in english

   The english blog for me has been a two side experience, in some moments it was very interesting to think on thing that I liked and how to talk about it to my classmates, and I felt very grateful when I received feedback for doing that. But by the other hand sometimes it was very hard to write, because not everyday I felt in the mood to make homework, and I felt the blog like an annoyance. But If I have to give an opinion for the whole process, I think it was pretty cool, I like this kind of things, where you can watch all your process on retrospective. Also I enjoined thinking about how I was gonna write about the topic, like in the blog about the food, or the picture. Also this made me thought about how I speak in english, Because I not use to think a lot about how to talk, in a grammatically way, but writing I have to search for how conjugate the verbs, or search for vocabulary,  for example. Well, I’m not gonna lie, and it’s kind of relief getting finish the blog of...

Film as an art

Well, for nobody has been a secret that this semester is one of the weirdest that we ever had, the coronavirus is making the life so hard, and sometime is difficult to look at the bright side during this situation. Thinking about my career, I liked some subjects, but now I’d like to tell you about a CFG call the film as an art. first of all, the idea of analize cinema through the artistic vanguards of the XX century, or see how the movies evolved from a technological experience to an artistic expression with its own language amaze me. It makes me wonder about my own forms to understand the art and my relationship with the music I like. Also for me is awesome get at the end of the class with a big list of movies to watch, and a lot of information about the history of film industry. We had time to debate too, and think about how some countries tends to monopolise the cinema like his own invention, or women who were censored until know. I think the teacher was a very wise person, who know...

Tania Ibañez

  Hello everyone, today I wanna talk about an incredible person and a personal music reference. Her name is Tania Ibañez, she is a composer, musician, researcher, and an amazing teacher on the university, in fact, she was my first teacher when I began the career, and it could not be better. She is like a very wise and quiet person, although she can be so much stric when she is taking tests. She is the kind of teacher that don’t make you memorize a lot of thing, but teach you how to use every single thing in the real world. Also she is a person who find the best of every student and make them know it . She makes research too, and investigates about relationship music and body, and looks to how apply this on teaching. Also she compose music, and is an awesome musician, here I’ll let two link of she singing her own songs. So, she is a very important person to me, because every time I talk to her I love a little more the music, and is a esthetic reference about how make music. awesome ...

Cookies with coffee

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 Well, I know this may sound very weird because eat cookies with coffee is not so "culinary", but I have some reasons to talk about this. When I began my first university career I been forced to find I job for some circumstances, and the first thing I got was a Part time job on Whittard (a shop where you can buy tea and coffee). The place used to been empty in the mornings, so we took advantage of that and ate breakfast during that time. We prepared coffee (the best one lol) and bought some cookies. I remember that because it was a very “chill” time, very relaxing before began the hard work, we laugh a lot, shared a lot of music and series, and I made some increible friends. I left the job one year later, and I never found a place like that again. Actually eat cookies and coffee (or milk) is very cool by itself, but for me, sometimes reminds me this awesome time, that in another kind of jobs would be impossible.  

This is the coolest cat

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 Well, this is my cat sleeping, and he is awesome. I took this photo when a was going to my room and I found him dozing off on the way. There is not a great story behind the photo, but I like it a lot because we adopted this cat since almost one year, and I think that watching him grows so fast durind this quarantine has been amazing. His name is Polo, we chose that name because we thought it was very easy for us and the cat to learn it. He born on november 2th, so he is not even one year old, is so young. In our opinion point the cat is very special, because he is so independent, he go out the house during the day. But also he is so lovely with all of us, for example he always give a kiss the first time he watch us in the morning. He likes to be in the arms and let everybody touch him. 

Why I like Goodfellas?

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 For me its so hard to decide about my favourite movie, because i remember a lot of films and the feelings I had when a watched them. I could name too many movies, but if I have to say only one, I'd say Goodfellas, because is a movie that I'd choose for almost every moment.   It talks about a young Hery Hill who wanted to join the mafia, abandoning the school and becoming a gansta. Its seems very simple, but isn't, because the movie shows how in the begining the life seems to be very happy with no complications in the mafia, winning money so easily and making everything that you want because the law es down of you. But the gansta life is a downward spiral of violence wich becomes stronger while you'r descending. Slowly the movie becomes more brutal, showing broken characters making the worts thing to keep them on the business. It's a path full of blood, murderes, with no friends, because you don't know who could betray you.   I'm a big fan of Scorsese work, ...

My Smartphone

 The people that are close with me knows that I'm not so good with technology. I don't know about brands and what make them special, or which one is the most expensive, or the best one in a price quiality ratio. In fact, the smartphone that I'm already using was the cheapest on the store that day. So, why I like it so much? Well, its because is the most useful tool that I have now, seriously, theres a lot of app's that made my life so easier, for example, I'm studyng a career related with music, and there's a lot of apps that are very helpful with ear trainning. Also I can find study methods, making my time more productive, and letting me spend my time in hobbis or resting.   Besides, I use a lot the cellphone in leisure moments, hearing albums on spotify and watching videos on youtube. When there was not a quarantine, I also used the cellphone on the subway playing games, so I didn't feel the trip so hard. Thats why I think the Smartphone its my favourite t...

What about Musical Theory?

  Well well, What's the matter with Musical Theory? I remember when I was in my teens and choose this career over others like History or Journalism. It's hard to define this kind of things because the only word that contains all the feelings that I have for music is love. I remember when I was a kid and  how much I loved to travel hearing a disk of chilean music that my relatives had. There was a song called "Alturas" by Inti Illimani which motivated me to learn how to play music.   I had a Super Nintendo and I memorized the songs of the games and tried to play in a flute that we had in home. With the movies and series were the same story. When I was 12 years old, my mom gave me a guitar and I beggan to take classes. I love reading and writting too, so when I was younger I thought to take a career like Journalism or Literature and talk about the things like music, games and dinosaurs (because I loved Jurassic Park). When I was 14 people always asked me what careear I ...

Who is Javier Fernández?

  I am Javier Fernández, the creator of this blog. I was born in August 14th, 1996, in Santiago. The name of this blog is after a quote from a tv show call Doctor who, I'm not a great fan, but is something that a remember with a lot of  affection, and I like it because I am a very nostalgic man. I like to play music with my guitar, I don't feel that I have an especific type of music that I like the most, but If i have to name some band or artirs I'd say Radiohead, The Cure, Fiona Apple and My bloody valentine (Those always are the firts that comes to my head). I love reading, I think that the best book ever written is the Outsider by Albert camus, and  my favourite poem writter is  W islawa Szymborska (I recomend one call "A cat in an empty floor"). I like to watch sports like football soccer or basketball, but I only like to practice swimmig, I love how the body feels inside the water, and the sensation when you have to race. I'd like to live by my music, wri...