Hello from a student of humanity

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)

Hello, my name is Chris Ver Voort. I just received my B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology this past May, and I am leaving for Senegal in September to work with the Peace Corps as an agroforestry volunteer. I plan to post about music, language, culture(s), nature, and more.

I love the idea of a new social media community and a decentralized economic meritocracy. I feel that everyone has a great deal to share with the world that isn’t given any value in our current system.

I am an avid musician, photographer, hiker, and writer.
I am an observer, listener, and seeker of knowledge and beauty.
As a student of anthropology I am fascinated in the different ways in which people express themselves and socialize, depending on the context of culture, or social media platform. I look forward to taking part in this new socioeconomic space, where we can all try to bring a little humanity back to the internet. The true spirit of humanity can be found here through communication, cooperation, and coordination.

I enjoy listening to and playing music, with a great interest in traditional musical cultures of the world. I have been making my own music and recording it since I was a freshman in high school, and haven’t stopped since. Below is a link to all of my music, which is mostly electroacoustic guitar, synthesizers, and some other instruments such as mbiras, ukuleles, and flutes. My music is often abstract and improvisational. I am self-taught and have developed my own style of ambient/chaotic music. I hope you enjoy it!
https://chrisvervoort.bandcamp.com/

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Hi @thembira, welcome to Steemit! Like your forest folk music :) Check my own tracks https://musicoin.org/nav/artist/0x4c03c055b7da36980928cde0b513423c9c6b31de
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Thanks so much chicosonico! Can't wait to check our your music, thanks for the listen. Forest folk is a good way to describe it... I may have to use that term!

A lot of music in your Bandcamp! Well done, man. I like A Machine Organic...

Thanks dude, that was a totally improvised (as many of mine are) concept album about a pretty abstract train of thought I had... Named linear existence (life) vs nameless nonlinear existence (death, and things beyond our realm of perception)... real and surreal, ambient and chaotic.

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Welcome and goncrats on the degree... i have a year left on mine... i jumped majors a lot...

Thanks friend, what are you studying now?

Communication Major with a minor in Drama

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What is your favorite music? I am partial to jazz, funk, Americana folk, Balinese gamelan, and Hindustani ragas. Favorite artists are Sun Ra, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Ominous Seapods, Luna, Grandaddy, Pavement, Built To Spill, Phish, Grateful Dead, King Crimson, Paul Simon... I'll just stop there.

What is your musical preference?
My username was taken from combining jazz references. Thembi (an album by Pharoah Sanders) and Ra (as in the jazz artist Sun Ra). thembi - ra. It also spells "the mbira" - which is a plucked thumb piano from Africa, known by many names. Mbiras were the first non-Western instrument I played, so they have a special place in my heart. Stella Chiwese is my favorite mbira artist.

Welcome to family :) Follow me back and I will surprise you on August 1 ;)

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