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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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6:26

Batman queen genie 蝙蝠精灵

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/10/18

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #437 — Batman queen genie 蝙蝠精灵. This piece was composed and recorded yesterday on multi-tremolo guzheng. Every tremolo with new pitches were started eighteen seconds after the previous one was introduced. Gradually, a sound cluster was built. Every tremolo was ended because my fingers were exhausted. That’s how this piece was structured. Hope your week is starting with magical and peaceful energy.Wu Fei

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4:17

Sichuan dollhouse 娃寨

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/10/15

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #436 — Sichuan dollhouse 娃寨. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on multi-vocal tracks, sung/spoken by me. It draws from the tradition of Luogu 锣鼓经. Luogu literally means "gongs and drums." Luogu is a Chinese percussion ensemble that typically comprises several types of drum and several types of metal idiophone (including gongs and cymbals) and wooden idiophone (including temple blocks and Chinese

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4:46

Si la re mi 老电话

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/10/11

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #432 — Si la re mi 老电话. This composition was created yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. I used four pitches as the motif for the entire piece. They are singing pitches: si la re mi in solfège. Solfège is a music education method used to teach aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western notation music. Singing solfège has been in music education in China since my parents were in elementary

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4:29

Honey brothers 蜜兄弟

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/10/08

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #431 — Honey brothers 蜜兄弟. I created this piece yesterday on multitrack guzheng, inspired by the honey fungi I saw in the forest (see photo below). I admire its delicious color. Honey fungus spreads from living trees, dead and live roots and stumps by means of reddish-brown to black rhizomorphs (root-like structures) at the rate of approximately 3.3 feet (1 meter) a year. What a powerful little creature it is

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4:37

Jana 詹娜

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/10/04

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #427 — Jana 詹娜. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. I would like to dedicate this composition to a dear friend of mine — Jana. Jana and I have known each other for twenty one years. She was my first friend in the U.S. when I arrived in Texas in 2000. She was an alto soprano in college at the time when I was doing my composition degree. We were both in our junior

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3:28

The secret clone 神秘克隆

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/10/01

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #426 — The secret clone 神秘克隆. This a cappella piece was composed and recorded yesterday, all tracks sung by me. After a morning hike in the woods, I get completely recharged. The forest is gradually becoming more colorful by the day. Recently I have slipped a few times on certain paths where I had never slipped before. Yesterday, I finally realized that the acorns that had fallen on the ground made me slip

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5:39

The tale of purple clay 阅紫砂

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/28

Hi everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #423 — The tale of purple clay 阅紫砂. This solo guzheng composition was created and recorded yesterday, performed by me. I would like share this newsletter with all my subscriber for free because I want to share this exciting book release that I am part of. A few years ago, Abigail Washburn and I were invited by Princeton University to write an essay about our music as part of a book called Ways of Hearing — Reflections on

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Dancing in one shoe 一枝独秀

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/27

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #422 — Dancing in one shoe 一枝独秀. This piece was created and recorded on 4-track guzheng, performed by me. It is an etude using a rhythmic pattern called syncopation. I start the piece with playing tutti, and then develop it into counterpointing the melodies and rhythms. It was a fun experiment! Hope your week is starting with a lot of fun energy!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to

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4:55

Autumn hoofing 秋叮咚

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/24

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #421 — Autumn hoofing 秋叮咚.This piece was created and recorded yesterday on multi-track guzheng, performed by me. The deer in the forest have become much more relaxed around humans. The mother and her doe have been coming out in the morning to play on my neighbor’s lawn. What a way to start my day! Hope you all are enjoying the beautiful autumn. Wishing you all a beautiful weekend!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com This is

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5:38

The lunar maria 月海

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/21

Happy Moon Festival everyone 中秋节快乐!Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #418 — The lunar maria 月海. Today is the Moon Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节. I would like to share this post with all my subscribers. Hope you are with your loved ones on this day. If you can’t be together, please tell each other that you can watch the full moon tonight, and you will be connected by the moon. The Moon Festival is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated by China

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High desert, red willows 高漠有红柳

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/20

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #417 — High desert, red willows 高漠有红柳. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on solo guzheng. A dear friend of mine whom I hadn’t seen for many years came to visit me yesterday. We had a wonderful catch up. He told me that he was going to Taos, New Mexico. I was fascinated by this place from what he described it. After my friend left. I went into the studio and recorded this piece. Hope you are beginning

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4:07

Magnet’s wedding 铁磁铁磁的

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/17

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #416 — Magnet’s wedding 铁磁铁磁的.This composition was created and recorded on three-track guzheng yesterday, performed by me. The two elements in this piece sound like twin sisters getting married at the same time, pulling each others away and getting back to each other again. They are different, and yet, they are from the same origin. Wish you all a fun weekend!Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com This is a public episode. If

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4:55

Hiding in seagrass 海的女儿

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/13

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #412 — Hiding in seagrass 海的女儿.This piece was created and recorded yesterday on three-track guzheng, performed by me. I had a busy three days last week giving classes and playing a concert in Butler University in Indianapolis. After returning home on Saturday, my fingers were craving proper exercise. This piece was to resume myself back in my daily practice. Hope it brings you energy to your Monday! Wu Fei

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3:38

Drop it and shine 退一步, 海阔天空

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/10

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #411 — Drop it and shine 退一步, 海阔天空. This multi-track guzheng composition was created and recorded on September 7th, 2021, performed by me. It is another piece where I did not wear finger picks so I could pluck and mute instantly. It is a technique I learned from playing Balinese gamelan music, where most of the percussion instruments are hit with a hammer (or a mallet) with right hand, then is muted immediately

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6:33

The last river 谷蓝松

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/07

Happy Rosh Hashanah everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #408 — The last river 谷蓝松. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on guzheng, performed by me. The weather in Nashville has been beautiful. It has entered my favorite season — autumn. In the morning, I had a hike in the forest. The forest was full of birds’ calls. Suddenly, I heard birds singing clearly in pitches of a B-F#-E back and forth in a spontaneous timing. When I came home, I turned this

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Curving train 遥拜

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/09/03

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #407 — Curving train 遥拜. This improvisation was recorded yesterday on my vocal and guzheng. We live in a very strange time — the strangest time I’ve ever remembered in my life time that is not long, not short. Sometimes I feel I’ve barely lived. Sometimes I feel I’ve lived for thousands of years. Everything is relative. When I play, it feels like I live a whole new life again. September 6th, Monday is Labor Day

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4:12

Switching twigs 连理枝

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/08/30

Happy Monday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #403 — Switching twigs 连理枝. This composition was created and recorded yesterday on four-track guzheng, performed by me. It is another etude for finger exercise. I created this piece right after practicing Bach’s preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier for piano. There might be some of the “left-over” flavor lingering around in this piece. Hope you are starting a good week!Wu Fei 吴非wufeimusic.comThis tree branch

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3:36

High horse school 麒麟斋

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/08/27

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #402 — High horse school 麒麟斋. This composition was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack muted guzheng, performed by me. I am excited to announce that my chamber orchestral composition Hello Gold Mountain will be performed on September 9, 2021 at the Schrott Center for the Arts in Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. Concert detail is below or click here to Schrott Center’s official page. Wishing you

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8:20

Maybe shimmering 能灻否

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/08/23

Good morning everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #398 — Maybe shimmering 能灻否.This solo guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday. I had a moment reconnecting to the music root I was raised on. I hear the folklores from the old dynasties; I see the caves that are full of paintings on the walls; I walk by the foothills of the ancient Great Wall ruins, and am carried by a piece of cloud into the space. Wishing you all a peaceful week!Wu Fei 吴非wufeimusic.comI

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5:17

Deep garden 蝶恋花

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2021/08/20

Happy Friday everyone,Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #397 — Deep garden 蝶恋花.This composition was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. Hiking on the hills of west Nashville, I am often stunned by how many butterflies there are. They fly quite high and fast that I sometimes mistake them for bats. This handsome black swallowtail was loving the beautiful butterfly milkweed blossoms as I walked by it (photo below). Wishing you all a

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