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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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#660 — Rosh Hashanah rainbow 新年的彩虹

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/26

Shanah Tovah! 犹太新年快乐。This 3-track guzheng piece was created and recorded yesterday evening when Rosh Hashanah 2022 started, marking the beginning of the year 5783. May the new year be full of peace and joy! Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube @wufeimusicWild ironweed blossoms are all over west Nashville. 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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6:48

#659 — Guzheng night song 35 古筝夜曲第三十五号

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/23

I am excited to share that I have finished orchestrating the full symphony version of my chamber ensemble work Hello Gold Mountain. I am sure I will revise more later, but the beast is there! It will be premiered by Lehigh University Symphony Orchestra at Baker Hall in Zoellner Arts Center on February 11th, Saturday 7:30pm, 2023. A symphony work is a universe itself, full of surprises, adventures and coherences structured by one person’s logical and emotional choices. The result is delivered

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7:16

#655 — Metallic frost 翅金霜

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/19

This solo guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday. I was inspired by the bees, the butterflies and the flowers that I walked through on top of the hills of Charlotte Pike in Nashville. I was over joy by how many wild lives I saw, especially the wild bees. They were calm, almost lazy. You’d think the bees would attack you if you are nearby. Not at all. At least not these bees. They were incredibly calm. Even the wasps were calm. I needed this walk so much after dealing with vicious hackers who

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4:48

#654 — Devil’s nettle 魔鬼荨麻

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/16

Two days ago, I wrote a piece inspired by the goldenrod soldier beetles. Yesterday, I wrote a piece inspired by the devil’s nettle (photo below) — the best friend of goldenrod soldier beetles. The plant is blossoming like crazy all over the forest in west Nashville. I never knew that flowers could be blossoming in autumn much more than the spring. I was so excited by the followers that I challenged myself to record this piece at 206 beats per minute. It was an incredible finger exercise. Wish you

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#649 — The rainbow snare 彩虹井

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/09

There has been many spiderwebs in the forest. In the last two weeks, I had been bitten by spiders while hiking. I thought it was chiggers first. And then I realized I was bitten by spiders because there were always two biting marks next to each other. After doing more research, I came to peace with the spiders in the forest because I was walking through their webs. In their defense, I was an invader. I deserve it :) So I wrote a piece to show my appreciation to the spiders and their amazing webs. I

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11:50

#646 — A yellow tear drop 一滴月泪

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/06

I improvised this piece on guzheng and my vocal yesterday. It is dedicated to our youth and the young loves. We all have grown, and hopefully have grown wiser. Everything we experienced made who we are today. There is only appreciation for those experiences in my heart. I want to send my thank you to all the new paid subscribers in the last few days. Our life paths have joined from this moment. Thank you for being there for me! I also want to thank all the supporters from the very beginning of my

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#645 — Majestic bandana 峥嵘帕

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/09/02

I have never loved a bandana so much until I discovered its best use — to mute the sustained sound of my guzheng strings. The compositional possibilities from adding one bandana to my strings are infinite! Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube @wufeimusic 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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#641 — The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/29

I improvised this solo guzheng piece yesterday after reading Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1048 - 1311), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian poetry. He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire. As a scholar, he was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuk dynasty around the time of the First Crusade.“Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The

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3:50

#640 — Yao counterpoint 复调瑶族曲

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/26

Yesterday, I received a dear subscriber’s email asking tips about how to work on counterpoint music. He watched the video (below) that I made for self-counterpoint practice. I must say that counterpoint music is one of the more complex music forms in terms of composition and practice. The foundation to play/sing/compose counterpoint is ear training from my own experience. Being able to hear what is going on with one melody while trying to respond effectively and coherently is an immense task. I came

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#636 — Thistle aria 咏蝶

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/22

I wrote this single melody piece on guzheng yesterday. After being with many children at a back to school party this weekend, I felt like writing something with only one line of melody to celebrate simplicity. As adults, we often forget how beautiful being simple can be. It is full of imagination, possibility and nobility, which children are. Hope you all have a wonderful week!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube @wufeimusicAn eastern tiger swallowtail on a thistle

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#635 — Cloud chrysanthemum 云菊

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/19

This guzheng improvisation was created yesterday. I was thinking about my mother when I was playing. Since she and my father moved to Nashville from Beijing in 2019, their health has improved tremendously. As their daughter, I feel happy, lucky and proud that I can take good care of them when they are old. We do argue like all families (less and less :). My mother can only say sweet things to me, about me. She feels bad that them being here causes me and my husband trouble because my parents can’t

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#631 — A waterfall of trees 树影瀑布

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/15

This multitrack guzheng piece was created and recorded yesterday. I was driving my children to their school Sunday picnic yesterday, and I heard my 7-year old son say “…The waterfall of trees I see in the reflection…” I thought it was an interesting sentence, and decided to write a piece with that impression. Meanwhile, I continue orchestrating my symphony score for Hello Gold Mountain. Yesterday, I worked on a transitional movement that had all the woodwind and brass instruments. If you have not

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#630 — When the old number rings 老电话

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/12

This three-track counterpoint guzheng piece was composed and recorded yesterday. After two hours of working on the orchestral score of Hello Gold Mountain, I needed a change of brain. Then I remembered my old composition professor’s home phone number back in Beijing. I used to memorize all my professors’ phone numbers in music pitches. Most of my music lessons at the China Conservatory of Music were one-on-one lessons that required me to call my teachers to schedule. 7 would be B; 5 would be G; 0

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3:16

#628 — Sun marcher 小暖龟

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/10

I composed and recorded this three-track guzheng piece yesterday. The lower strings were half muted by a bandana. That is why the sustain of the strings is no longer there. I also didn’t wear finger picks, so I plucked the guzheng in the way harpists play., which adds a more muted sound effect. Hope you enjoy it!I have some work news: I have started orchestrating a symphony composition of mine: Hello Gold Mountain, a chamber orchestral work that premiered in 2018. The piece is inspired by stories of

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6:40

#626 — Midu mountain 弥渡情歌

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/08

This love song was recorded yesterday. This last weekend, we had a 3-year anniversary celebration for my parents moving to the U.S.. It has been an amazing three years for all of us, especially for my parents to move to a country they had never been. Yesterday, I realized that I had never seen them this peaceful around each other. They looked like a loving couple that I always hoped they could be when I was a child. This folk love tune is from Midu mountain in Yunnan province, China. My mother spent

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8:39

#625 — Seven magpies 七仙女

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/05

This piece was created and recorded yesterday to celebrate Qixi Festival. The Qixi Festival (七夕), is a Chinese festival celebrating the annual meeting of Zhinü and Niulang in Chinese mythology. The festival is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunisolar month on the Lunar calendar. It is also known as the Chinese Valentine’s Day. According to Wikipedia, the festival was derived from worship of natural astrology. It is called "Qixi Festival" because of the traditional worship of the

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#621 — After Covid 筝无冠

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/08/01

After nearly two weeks of recovering from Covid, yesterday was the first day I felt I was getting close to be 100% again. I made a video of an improvisation to celebrate (see below). After making the video, I recorded this audio track in one take as the sequel. Hope it brings a moment of peace to your new week. I’d like to thank Substack for interviewing me for What to Read, its series of newsletter recommendations. Substack has given me an easy platform to publish my music, thoughts, and get paid

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5:20

#620 — A lone star 孤星蝶

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/29

The forest I live in is full of colors in the summer. Because of the warm climate in middle Tennessee in the United States, plants grow all year long. All kinds of flowers blossom in different seasons. The Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly is back (photo below). This peaceful creature is nearly as big as my palm. I hope it realizes how beautiful it is! Wish you all a wonderful weekend!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube @wufeimusic This is a public episode. If you’d

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5:18

#616 — D train of Rarotonga

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/25

Happy Monday everyone. Hope you’ve had a restful weekend. Yesterday, I tuned my guzheng in D minor. Lately I have been drawn to minor sounding scales. Maybe it’s because the half-sized guzheng I played for more than a month in Auckland was in major scale. I couldn’t change the tuning because I brought the wrong tuning hammer with me from the U.S. to New Zealand. Now I have all the right gears again so I am doing a “major scale cleansing”. It is like craving for certain kind of food after you’ve had

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8:20

#615 — Antarctic lullaby 摇南曲

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/22

When I was Auckland two weeks ago, I was amazed by how large the penguins I saw in an aquarium. They were standing so quiet and still as if they were taking a nap together. Some had their heads up like proud singers when some had their heads down like thinkers. They all had their wings open like orchestral conductors bowing to the audience after a concert. I wrote this piece yesterday to reconnect to the moment I had with the penguins. Wish you all a restful weekend!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter

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