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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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5:16

#611 — The day after a long absence 四小雀友

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/18

Greetings from Nashville, Tennessee everyone. After a long travel trip, my family and I have made it home safely from New Zealand. The very first day after being back, we discovered that there were four baby house sparrows in the flower pot on the front porch. What a lovely surprise! About two months ago, before we left for New Zealand, there had been a mama bird bringing a lot of sticks into the pot all day long. We were debating if we should continue watering the plant because we didn’t want to

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4:14

#610 — Guzheng night song 28 古筝夜曲第二十八

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/12

Dear subscribers, thank you for your support and patience. I am back in Auckland. Yesterday, we went to the aquarium. Although it was a small aquarium, we were still amazed by all the sea lives that were rare to see from where we lived in the U.S.. It was peaceful and beautiful. The sounds of the sea lives were very smoothing to hear. I recorded this piece after I came home. Hope it helps you to have a good night sleep tonight :) In two days, I will be traveling back to the U.S.. It will be another

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4:29

#609 — The cow is out 走神牛

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/08

I created this piece a few hours ago inspired by a wooden cow statue from Mission Bay in Auckland. It belongs to a restaurant. I pass by this restaurant everyday when I walk to the beach. If the wooden cow is out on the sidewalk, then I know the restaurant is open. I used the guzheng as a percussion instrument by hitting the strings like a drum on both sides of the bridges. And then I created the vocal tracks by singing into the hole in the back of the guzheng (see photo below). I will be traveling

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4:01

#606 — Seagrass bed 海藻床

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/05

I didn’t grow up near the ocean. Marine lives or life style by the sea has always been foreign to me. Two days ago, I saw a small island out of the water near the beach where I had been walking by everyday in Auckland. “How interesting!” I thought. “It was always water, but now it’s an island.” I walked on the island to take a look what was on it. I felt like I was standing in the middle of the ocean at the end, and was much closer to the volcano site that’s in front of me (see photo below). I came

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4:39

#605 — Kites of Orakei 偶拉开的风筝

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/07/01

Happy Friday everyone! I composed this piece today after seeing a kite festival in Takaparawha Regional Park in the neighborhood of Orakei in Auckland. Both my children and I recognized the characters from our own childhoods. It was a special moment to me that we were able to enjoy the same fun memories on this one big kite from two generations! I wrote this piece to celebrate this day. Wish you all a wonderful weekend. Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube @wufeimusic

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3:48

#602 — Orca 小伙鲸

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/28

Yesterday, I saw three orcas, from Mission Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. They were chasing a stingray. I was surprised how close they were swimming to the shore. The locals told me that it was rare to see orcas and stingray together like that. Everyone I know in Auckland have not seen anything like that. I was extremely lucky to have such an experience! Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube @wufeimusic This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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7:09

#601 — Swimming hole, singing bay 木水风

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/27

Hi everyone, greetings from Auckland. I created and recorded this piece today on my half sized guzheng that my parent-in-laws have kept in their home in New Zealand for nearly a decade. It was my first time recording this guzheng for my daily music newsletter. I am still in the process of finding the best sound since I only brought one microphone with me on this trip. When I was doing sound check, I started to sing into the sound hole that’s in the back of the guzheng. The overtones from the strings

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3:31

#600 — Reading in Rarotonga 晨浸南洋

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/20

Greetings from Rarotonga of the Cook Islands! It has been a restful week spending time with family here. Our host told us that we were the first American family returning to the Cook Islands since the pandemic started. No wonder the immigration officer was excited to see us when he processed our arrival cards. The internet is very slow on the island. I will have to wait until I return to Auckland this weekend to resume my daily recordings. Thank you again for your understanding, patience and

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5:51

#599 — Mirror of Mission Bay 南水谣

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/17

Greetings from Auckland! It has been so wonderful, almost surreal to be with my New Zealand family again. For a while, I feared we may never see each other again. Some parts of Auckland have changed quite a bit since the last time I was here. Many new houses are being built. However, some parts are exactly the same, like the ocean. My children are much bigger than the last time when they played in the sand. What hasn’t changed is how much they love the beach. This piece is dedicated to the things

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9:04

#598 — Milky summer 乳夏

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/13

Good morning everyone. Hope you are all enjoying a relaxing summer holiday if you are from the northern hemisphere. By the time you hear this piece, which was recorded two days ago, I have left Nashville to New Zealand. I have family in New Zealand. We have been separated by the pandemic for more than three years. It will be a very long travel. After Covid, the new requirements for entering New Zealand have been difficult and confusing. For this week, I will be focusing on making sure that my family

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5:53

#597 — Wooden arrows of Chicago 芝加哥木箭

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/10

Greetings from Nashville again! This piece was created and recorded yesterday after I came home with much excitement and honored from Chicago. I gave my solo concert at the historical Arts Club of Chicago on June 8th. I was in awe to learn that the club presented Pablo Picasso's first United States showing in 1923. The 1951 exhibition by Jean Dubuffet and his "Anti-cultural Positions" lecture at the Arts Club were tremendous influences on what would become the mid-1960s Imagist movement.The club

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8:18

#593 — Marsh bluet 蟌蟌

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/06

This solo guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday. I was inspired by this pair of damselflies (photo below) I saw by the pond. This type damselfly is called the marsh bluet. Their colors changed from sparkly to soft depending the angles where I looked at them from above the water or under the sunlight. They flew like this in the air too. They are similar to dragonflies. Most species fold the wings along the body when at rest, unlike dragonflies which hold the wings flat and away from the body

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9:40

#592 — Guzheng night song 26 古筝夜曲二十六号

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/06/03

This night song was recorded yesterday after I read a poem by Xiang Hong Zuo (1798 - 1835), a poet from the Qing Dynasty of China. When I was reading this poem, I could hear birds singing non-stop in the forest. It helped me to focus again since I was awake a lot last night from a loud thunder storm. Hope this piece can help you too to fall asleep tonight. I believe you can hear the birds in the recording too. Wishing you all a restful weekend!The poem in Chinese:《清平乐·池上纳凉》项鸿祚 (1798- 1835,

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5:38

#589 — Daddy skimmer 石青公子

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/31

Summer has arrived! The forest is incredibly vivid full of fragrance from the countless kinds of living creatures. I spotted this male slaty skimmer dragonfly (photo below) by the pond yesterday. It was flying on top of the water for a while, and then landed on a tree branch in front of me as if he was striking a pose for me. What a handsome dragonfly it is! Wish I could balance on a stick like that :D Hope this piece brings you a moment of balance into your busy week! Wu Fei

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3:18

#588 — A cute patch of sun 一束金梭

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/27

I composed and recorded this multitrack guzheng composition yesterday. The weather in Nashville has been going back and forth between sunny and storms in the last twenty four hours. Sometimes the sun and the rain were both out at the same time. Everything is growing in the forest. It looks like a jungle now — lush with dark green leaves everywhere. It is very smoothing on the eyes. Older generation in China always told me that looking at green leaves helped to relax my eyes. I believe it :) Hope

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4:20

#584 — Eighty times later 八零赋格

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/23

I composed and recorded this piece after seeing a hummingbird drinking at my feeder yesterday. The hummingbird flapped its wings so fast that I couldn’t really see the wings. Later, I learned that hummingbirds flapped their wings from about 10 to more than 80 times per second while hovering. They flap their wings even faster during the courtship display dives used by the males of some species. Moreover, hummingbirds can fly very fast, routinely attaining speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour. They

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9:29

#583 — Departing the lighthouse 灯塔的逝去

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/20

This nearly 10-minute solo vocal and guzheng piece as recorded yesterday. After weeks of following the news of the lockdown in China due to the new breakout of covid, especially after a heavy news of my dear friend’s father passing away, my heart had a confrontation with my brain when I sat down to create this recording. I have known this friend since I was sixteen years old in Beijing. She is one of the most talented and beautiful erhu musicians I ever known. I call her jiejie 姐姐 — big sister. She

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10:43

#579 — Sleepy galls 夏打盹儿

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/16

Good morning, afternoon or evening everyone. This solo guzheng improvisation piece was recorded yesterday. During my hike, I noticed these little bumps on a leaf (see photo blow) in the forest. I had to look them up on the internet and learned that they were gall wasp eggs. What a fun day to begin my day to discover something I had never heard of in my life! According to Quogue Wildlife Refuge : “As leaves begin to fall from their trees during the autumn season, you may find it easier to notice some

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5:06

#578 — Miraculous goblin 大耳怪

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/13

I composed this piece yesterday and recorded it on multitrack guzheng. It was inspired by a fantastic new harp composition I heard on Classical 91.5 Nashville radio when I was driving. I am still searching the name of the piece and the composer. All I remembered was the harpist was from Paris Conservatory. I will share the information with you as soon as I find that out. Hope this piece brings you into a adventurous weekend!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comTwitter @wufeiInstagram @wufeimusicYouTube

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6:22

#574 — The force that drives through the green fuse 青出于蓝

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2022/05/09

I composed this piece yesterday after hiking in the forest. I was amused by the tadpoles in the creek (see photo below). The ripples from the tiny movement from the tadpoles’ tales looked magical under the sunlight and the shadows of the trees. It was meditative to stare at them while listening to the sound of the water floating and the birds. And then I recorded this piece as a Mother’s Day present for my mom. Sending my best wishes to all the mothers and hope you all are starting a refreshing

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