Gu Qin Trance

Taking a journey into the intriguing world of traditional Chinese instruments.

The podcast contains a brief introduction to two traditional Chinese instruments, the Guqin and the Pipa, with some appreciation of their representative music and the telling of the true historical stories behind these pieces. The characteristics of the two instruments and the moods conveyed in their pieces are extremely different.

Get Lost In Strings

作曲：周杰倫
作詞：方文山
弹奏：皓辰
后期：皓辰

蘭亭臨帖 行書如行雲流水
月下門推 心細如妳腳步碎
忙不迭 千年碑易拓卻難拓妳的美
真跡絕 真心能給誰
牧笛橫吹 黃酒小菜又幾碟
夕陽餘暉 如妳的羞怯似醉
摹本易寫 而墨香不退與妳共留餘味
一行硃砂 到底圈了誰
無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解
無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解
無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
獨缺 妳一生了解
彈指歲月 傾城頃刻間湮滅
青石板街 回眸一笑妳婉約
恨了沒 妳搖頭輕嘆誰讓妳蹙著眉
而深閨 徒留胭脂味
人雁南飛 轉身一瞥妳噙淚
掬一把月 手攬回憶怎麼睡
又怎麼會 心事密縫繡花鞋針針怨懟
若花怨蝶 你會怨著誰
無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解
無關風月 我題序等妳回
手書無愧 無懼人間是非
雨打蕉葉 又瀟瀟了幾夜
我等春雷 來提醒妳愛誰

兰亭序古琴

A new work for gugin and xiao peformed by Chris Rippey

Banzanakta's Farewell

Made in Sonic Pi. Uses a modified sample by morgantj, deerchaser.mp3, available under a Creative Commons attribution license at https://freesound.org/people/morgantj/sounds/58569/
Also uses a personal lofi recording outside my window of rain and thunder

I Like Rain (Sōzu Me)

First Rays

I was guqin and then this came out

according to the judgement of the oratrice mechanique d'analyse cardinale - this song is guilty of being another shitpost



Guilty

A duet for clarinet and guqin, using tonal and melodic materials echoing some infuences from Tang Dynasy Chinese music. This Guqin was made in Xian by LI Mingzhong and is fitted with silk strings. The clarinet is a Boosey and Hawkes 1010 clarinet in A, with a custom made mouthpiece and La Voz reed.

Ever Peaceful - 常安

I really liked how the melodies turned out in this song! I think they're my most catchy (and beautiful) melodies thus far.

I really liked using the guqin VST, it sounds so good! I love asiatic instruments.

Please let me know what you think!

credits for the drawing go to @demondepresive, go check their art account: https://twitter.com/DemonDepresive

Reunion

Day 13 of owning a guqin and I'm really loving it so far. Far, far from perfect, but it's so meditative. Apologies for the poor audio quality, recorded this on my phone to keep a record of my progress.

Farewell at Yangguan Pass (阳关三叠) - (First Section)

【古琴Guqin笛簫琵琶箏鼓手碟】天寶一夢，盛世相逢《緣起稻香》，超沈浸視聽體驗帶你夢回大唐 ｜自得琴社

Guqin: Traditional Chinese musical Instruments

This is a standalone piece in storytelling way by two co-hosts and one interviewee, and aims to explore Chinese traditional musical culture and ancient philosophy in an entertaining way. The whole content will draw on the personal life experiences of our interviewee-the Qin master Yao Wang and some of the positive spirits that Guqin music experiences to bring relaxation and comfort to people of different ages, especially for the elderly generations who are or were facing life confusion and difficulties. 

The teacher’s life experience is unique and powerful. He was an excellent Western piano player before he became a professional Guqin inheritor. He was attracted to the unique sound and knowledge of Guqin and the culture encompassed in its study, and he progressively found his future direction and meaning.

A Touch Of China

Original music《comfydrink zen dream》

guqin music <Jiu Kuang> Re-arranged

Comfydrink Zen Dream.MP3

This is a little tune I came up with while practicing. I'm slowly learning. 

It's sad, earthy, and using Strings 1 and 2 and 3 to form an earthy, sullen theme. 

Harmonics are difficult to understand, but once my hands and brain mess with it enough, I'll be okay, I guess. The harmonics here are for the memories of beauty. 

I don't know where I'm going with the rest of it, but I like what I have, so far.

In Ruins (wip)

The cool air and changing colors of autumn herald the time of harvest for a small village.

Another Guqin diddy. I actually made this and practiced transcribing it. It's a bit rough between all parts but with a metronome and some practice I'll have it down.

Autumn Harvest (wip)

This short ABAB song is a 2nd year assignment, taking the theme song, "无畏“ (Fearless) by Ma Di from the drama series "Go Ahead", as a reference or model track.

无奈 Wu Nai （Helpless)

Four months in to learning guqin, and I sort of know a full song - and it's the song that first inspired me to begin learning guqin. Lots of work to go, but... getting there. I'm alternating between this, Yangguan Pass, and Guanshan Yue as my first three pieces I'm learning. A few little mistakes here and there, which I'm sure will straighten out the more I get used to it and stop muting the strings by accident. But it's all about the slow progress.

Playing this one in particular always makes me feel so tranquil, if a little melancholy. Suppose that's the idea of the song, considering who it's about.

Wolong Yin (Theme of Zhuge Liang - Guqin Practice)

Tony Wheeler – guqin

Tony Wheeler studied guqin古琴 at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with LIN Youren 林友仁 from 1985 to 1987, as well as having regular lessons and discussions with him for the 26 years following that time. In Shanghai Tony also studied ruan 阮 (4-stringed Chinese guitar) with ZHU Xincheng 诸新诚 and composition with HE Zhanhao 何占豪.

LIN Youren (1938-2013) was one of the most highly respected qin players of the modern age, and himself studied with several of the most prominent qin masters of the 20th century. Mr LIN was officially named in 2008 as one of 10 national-level transmitters of qin music and culture in China. Tony also studied qin in Hong Kong with LAU Chor-wah 刘楚华 from 1988 to 1991. It was from LAU Chor-wah whom he learned, among other things, a deep appreciation of traditional silk strings.

Primarily due to the influence of LIN Youren, Tony Wheeler’s qin playing is deeply grounded in tradition. His style is simple, uncomplicated, and free of any unnecessary florid elaborations or ostentatious movement. Tony’s playing is natural and down to earth, with strong elements of spirituality which emanate from his practice of Zen 禅 meditation.

Tony Wheeler is also a professional clarinet and saxophone player, teacher and composer. He gradu¬ated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 1982, before going to the Shanghai Conservatory in 1985. After leaving Shanghai, Tony then studied and taught at the Uni¬versity of Hong Kong for four years before being awarded an M.Phil. in Composition for Chi¬nese instruments.

He has performed extensively on guqin in Australia and China, and has done much work on the da-pu 打谱 (reconstruction) of music from traditional guqin scores. Some of these reconstructions are featured on this CD. His da-pu of Walking with the Ancients 古交行 was published in China in 2011, and his essay on the reconstruction process of this piece was published in 2013 in the book Postscripts on the Resurrection of the Zither Manuscript of the Pine and Strings Hall  松弦馆琴谱钩沉打谱后记.

Guqin (Ancient 7-stringed zither)
The guqin (often referred to as the qin) is one of the oldest indigenous Chinese instru¬ments, having survived intact for well over two millennia. The qin is mentioned in liter¬ature of the Zhou era (11th cent. B.C. - 221B.C.), though at that time it probably only had five strings. By about 200 A.D. it had evolved to a shape and form which has changed little even to the present day. Originally qin strings were made of silk, although in the later decades of the 20th century many players in Mainland China preferred to use nylon-wound strings with a thin steel core. Steel-cored strings are more stable, less inclined to snap, and produce a louder sound. Their timbre, however, usually lacks some of the depth and sonority of silk strings.

All the pieces on this CD are played on silk strings. Two instruments were used in the recordings:
Track 2 is played on a China fir wood qin (named 禅钟 – Zen Bell) made by Nan Feng 南风 Qin Company in Yangzhou in 2011.
All other tracks are played on a paulownia wood qin (named 常安 – Constant Tranquility) made by LI Mingzhong 李明忠 in the 1990s.

Throughout history the qin has always been associated with the refined, scholarly and even mystical aspects of music-making. It is rather reclusive by nature, and is the sub¬ject of much folklore, but despite these mystical connections its sound has a direct and earthy presence, very much of this world. Acoustically it is relatively quiet, but possesses a rich palette of timbres and a wide range of more than 4 octaves. It is most suited to being played in quiet, intimate surroundings, where the often contemplative nature of the music may be fully appreciated.


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Soprano vocalist from the North East of England dabbling in operatic, folk, rock and various other styles of singing.

I make games, write fiction, do programming, and create worlds. I also sometimes make music.

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