編者按：為有效地向世界傳播海南自由貿(mào)易試驗(yàn)區(qū)和中國特色自由貿(mào)易港的重要新聞資訊，向世界傳遞海南聲音、講好海南故事，提升海南主流媒體國際傳播力、影響力，南海網(wǎng)國際傳播中心特別策劃推出海南首檔中英雙語網(wǎng)絡(luò)視頻節(jié)目《Foreigners in Hainan》(《外國人在海南》)。該節(jié)目通過視頻節(jié)目的形式，利用互聯(lián)網(wǎng)作為傳播載體，通過講述外籍人士在海南的故事，反映海南自貿(mào)區(qū)、自貿(mào)港創(chuàng)建以來，不斷開放的海南逐漸成為外國人才尋夢的熱土?！禙oreigners in Hainan》將以“輕專題片”和短視頻的模式，通過采訪在瓊工作的外國專家、外國創(chuàng)業(yè)青年、留學(xué)生等，聚焦他們在瓊工作、創(chuàng)業(yè)、旅行、學(xué)習(xí)的情況，講述他們在海南這塊日新月異、不斷開放的熱土上拼搏追夢的動人故事。
Matt Waters: Connecting Hainan and the world with music
“Music is super important to me, it’s something that has uplifted me through my time.”
Matt Waters, a musician and an educator from south California, who did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in UCLA, currently living in Hainan.
During his study in the UCLA, he joined the marching band and concert band, which allowed him to gain a bunch of very interesting experiences, including opening for the rolling stones. After worked as a freelance musician and a teacher and educator for about 10 years out of school in the US, Matt got an offer to teach in a university in Hainan. That’s why he came to Hainan.
“There is a lot of very good musical talents here, but it's not necessarily a showcase to put them on stage to show what they have to offer, so what we're doing today is giving them the space to do that,” said Matt.
And then after being a teacher in Hainan for two years, Matt decided to open a music company with his partner Matthew Busch. So they founded Hainan Music Productions.
“I think what I can bring to Hainan is that I can encourage a lot of local musicians to say, hey, you are really good!” said Matt, “like there is a wedding, someone asked me to find a musician to come and play, and suddenly everyone's making money, and the more they work and the longer they want to stay here. And then there are more musicians doing it, and they are getting better and better, suddenly we have a big music scene, so it’s connecting the local musicians and foreign musicians and businesses in town.”
“We’ve been in the music industry for a long time. The standard that we're used to in Los Angeles both myself and my colleagues from Los Angeles, and so we're trying to make it more professional. We are trying to bring things to a higher standard by working with local musicians, and that’s super important,” he said.
Hainan is pushing forward the construction of free trade zone and free trade port, but Matt thinks right now the music industry in Hainan is still very small. “There are a lot of musicians here, but there's not enough musicians to sustain in the music industry here. So what my partner and I try to do is building a larger place here, where people can go and see a different band every night, they can see a new musician. I think there's a lot of potential here, there's a lot of things that could happen here.”
“There are culture differences between where I come from and where we are in China. I'm trying to bridge that but music can bridge that. And so being able to work with local musicians has been awesome, because even though we do have differences, music is a commonality that we can find,” he said.
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