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Wu Fei"s Music Daily

An original piece of music every weekday from genre-bending composer, guzheng virtuoso, and vocalist Wu Fei. Concerts & tour info on www.wufeimusic.com wufeimusic.substack.com

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9:59

#949 — Love locks of Gent 根特爱情锁

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/03/21

Hi everyone, How have you been? I am back in Nashville from Belgium. I am enjoying the sunny spring day in Tennessee though I do miss the wonderful collaborations I had during my residency at Handelsbeurs Concert in Gent. It was so lovely to see old friends and meet new friends. The House of Wu Fei has been born and I can’t wait to bring this project to other places in the world! Today I recorded this piece while listening to the birds in the forest. Hope it brings you joy. Stay tuned for

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6:34

#948 — Virginia spring beauty | March concerts in...

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/03/05

Hi everyone, I have missed you all! My concert residency at the Yale Schwarzman Center last week was inspiring. I met many new friends from giving presentations at:* The Cooperative Arts & Humanities Magnet High School * Yale School of Music students * Yale’s Asian American Cultural Center* New Haven Chinese Cultural CooperativeI was also given an eye opening tour at the Wu Tsai Institute of Yale where the most cutting edge science research is happening. And the food at Chef Jiang Restaurant was

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4:30

#947 — New Haven étude 纽黑文练习曲

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/29

Hi everyone, This piece was created and recorded yesterday on two-track guzheng. By the time you open this newsletter, I will be on my way to New Haven, Connecticut. On March 2, Saturday, 7:30-9:00pm, I am giving a concert with my dear music collaborator Abigail Washburn at the Yale Schwarzmen Center. More details here. You can hear our album “ Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn” on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Vinyl, CD and digital formats are all available. As of today, the general admission of the

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5:15

#944 — The eye of the dragon 龙睛 | Concerts in Europe

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/26

Hi everyone, This three-voice guzheng composition was recorded yesterday, the last day of the Chinese New Year celebration. Last night, the bright moon rose high and lit up the entire forest (photo below). It was the first full moon of the Year of the Wood Dragon. Spring is the season to plant seeds. I am excited to share my new music residency that will take place in Europe from March 10-18, 2024. For friends who are in or near Belgium, I am premiering two new projects with some of the most

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7:33

#943 — Nine full years 九年

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/23

Hi everyone,This piece was created and recorded yesterday February 22, 2024. Nine years ago on this day, my husband and I and our two babies moved to the United State from Beijing, China. Our daughter was two and half years old, and our son was only three months old. It has been an amazing nine years making Nashville our home. My parents also joined us from China just before the pandemic, and they live here with us now. Ups and downs are inevitable, but all I feel at this stage of my life is

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6:30

#939 — The green fuse 小龙绿盈盈

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/19

Happy Monday everyone, I created and recorded this three-track guzheng composition yesterday inspired by the spring energy in the forest. Everything is coming back to life. Last week, I saw a frozen snake waking up from hibernation. It just lay there not moving (in photo) waiting to become softer and warmer. What a process one’s life can be! “The plan for the year lies in the spring” 一年之计在于春 as the old Chinese wisdom guides me. Hope this piece brings you a moment of joy! Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com |

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8:53

#934 — A pendulum 筝摆

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/12

Hi everyone, This guzheng étude was created and recorded yesterday. I designed a new scale to try different tone colors. My hands played an octave apart mostly striking the same pitches with occasional different pitches. When the pitch changed unexpectedly, there was a delayed surprise in my hearing. At the same second, it triggered me to shift volume from one hand to the other. I felt like a pendulum — I suspended my body from a fixed point to swing back and forth under the influence of the sound

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4:53

#933 — Welcome, wood dragon 翘首待龙

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/09

Hi everyone, This piece was written and recorded yesterday. It will be the last one before the lunar new year changes to the Year of the Wood Dragon on Saturday, February 10! You can hear my excitement in the piece. The dawn sky yesterday morning was magnificent (photo below). I truly hope the new year will bring much more peace, health and laughters to you all! 祝大家龙年吉祥如意，事事顺心。See you next year! 龙年见。Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com | hellogoldmountain.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss

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10:19

#929 — Winnipeg tremolo

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/02/05

Hi everyone,I have missed you all very much! The residency in Winnipeg last week was an absolute delight! I met so many people and made new friends who came to both of my concerts. Winnipeg is a very special place and I’d love to present my work there again. Please see the photos (some are from my phone, some are sent by audience members): 1. Judith Lavitt (born in Shanghai in 1941), left China with her parents when she was 7 years old. Now she lives in Winnipeg. Hello Gold Mountain has received

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5:51

#924 — The cold line 一线天

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/01/22

Yesterday, I hiked up the hill in the morning at the lowest temperature that I have ever experienced in Nashville: -14 Celsius or 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit. It was beautiful to see the white forest under the sun and the clouds (photo below). I stood at this spot and thought about the rewards of doing something difficult. I hope this piece brings you a moment of joy. My Canada debut is coming up next week. I will be giving two concerts and several composition master classes during this tour. Concert 1:

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5:27

#919 — Miss Fei’s feeling for snow 雪松非

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/01/15

Hi everyone,I am snowed in in Nashville. It is the biggest snowfall since I have been living here. It is -9 Celsius now in the middle of the day. I hope you are all staying warm or cool wherever you are! Wu Fei 吴非 Wufeimusic.com | hellogoldmountain.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wufeimusic.substack.com/subscribe

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5:53

#915 — The Milky Way has fallen down 银河落九天 | Concert...

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2024/01/08

Hi everyone, I composed this multitrack guzheng piece yesterday, performed by me. I was inspired by a poem written by Li Bai (701 - 762 A.D.), one of the most famous Chinese poets from the Tang Dynasty. The poem is called The Waterfall of Mount Lu 望廬山瀑布: 日照香爐生紫煙，遙望瀑布掛前川。飛流直下三千尺，疑是銀河落九天。My translation:Sunlight shines on the incense burner and illuminates its purple smoke In the distance there is a waterfallThe water tumbles straight down three thousand feetAs if the Milky Way has tumbled down to

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14:46

#913 — Medley 2023 | Canada concerts 2024

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/21

Hi everyone, Happy holidays to you all! By the time you receive this newsletter, I will be on my way to New Zealand to be with family members in the southern hemisphere. It has been another wonderful year for me sharing my daily thoughts and music with you. Thank you for being here with me, and I hope my music has brought joy to your life. I made this medley recording yesterday. All the folk melodies are from my childhood, beginning with me singing a song from the repertoire of Beijing Chaqur 北京岔曲儿,

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#910 — Balancing on five 五平

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/18

Hi everyone, I want to thank the new paid subscribers in the last week! Your support is very much appreciated it! This new two-track guzheng piece was composed and recorded yesterday. I was inspired by playing with a dear friend - a banjo maser Béla Fleck last week in Nashville where we both call home. It was a rare occasion that we got to just improvise as a duo. Banjo has five strings. In this recording, I played in 5/8, which means that you count 1 2 3 4 5 with the eighth note getting the

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10:02

#909 — Guzheng night song 68 | House of Wu Fei 2024

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/15

Hi everyone, I just recorded this guzheng night song. You might hear my husband opening and closing his car door at the end — I decided to just leave the noise in as a part of my improvisation.I’d also like to tell you about a concert I’ll be playing next year on March 14, 2024 in Ghent, Belgium. You can buy tickets here; the concert description is below. House of Wu Fei: Tides and Time The première of a new creation by Wu Fei (guzheng, vocals), Mattias De Craene (sax), Dijf Sanders (electronics),

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11:51

#906 — The calm after the storm 雨过天晴

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/11

This solo guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday, twelve hours after a massive tornado that tore across middle-north Tennessee. We were lucky (again) that the tornado missed our area by not too far. Two suburbs of Nashville -Clarksville and Hendersonville were hit the worst, Lives were lost and houses were destroyed. I was driving to pick up my daughter from a friend’s house when the state-wide tornado alert screamed out of my cellphone telling people to take shelter immediately. A tornado was

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5:37

#905 — A Hanukkah night song | Show in Nashville

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/08

Hanukkah sameach! This solo guzheng night song was created and recorded during the sunset of Dec.7th as we entered this year’s Hanukkah. Wish you all a stronger year ahead with health, wisdom and joy! If you are in Nashville, I’d like to share a performance that I’ll be part of as my last public concert of 2023. Wednesday, 12/13, 7pm at Tempo Address: 2179 Nolensville Pike, Nashville, TN 37311 There will be a special guest who is a world renowned picker at the show. We will be shredding strings

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5:30

#901 — New picks on the fingers 新甲露小手

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/04

Good morning everyone,This three-track prepared guzheng composition was created and recorded yesterday. Prepared instrument is when musical instruments whose timbre has been altered by placing various objects (preparations) on or between the instrument's vibrating strings (or other sound source). I put seven metal key chain rings on seven different strings in the middle register and a cotton banana in the low register in this piece. I also tried new finger picks on for this recording. They were

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10:38

#900 — A new general 新将军令

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/12/01

Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to invite you to the "Creativity and Collaboration in Transnational Chinese Music", part of the Conversation in Creative Practice series organized by the Department of Music, SOAS University of London.It’s on Tuesday December 5, 2023 at 3-5pm GMT (EST 10am | CST 9am | MST 8am | PST 7am) in Room G52 (SOAS main building). I will be remotely joining composer Yi-Chen Chang on Zoom. We will discuss our latest work, aspects of collaborations, transnational identities, and

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6:59

#896 — Riding the wind to fly home 乘风归去

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2023/11/27

This multitrack guzheng composition was created and recorded yesterday, inspired by one of my favorite poems from the Song Dynasty in China: Water Melody 水调歌头, written by Su Shi 苏轼 (1037 - 1101 A.D.) on the Moon Festival in the year of 1076 A.D.. My calligraphy (photo below) follows the traditional order of Chinese writing, from top to bottom and right to left. The four bigger characters on the right are the title of the poem. Translation: When will the moon be clear and bright? With a cup of wine

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