Wu Fei's Music Daily

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 s...

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 Princ...

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...

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 yo...

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...

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...

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,...

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. Thi...

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 mo...

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 sing...

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...

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” flavo...

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...

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,...

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 swallowta...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #393 — Feathers in the field 翼. This solo guzheng piece was created and recorded yesterday. A dear friend came to visit us yesterday. He told us about the “field parties” he had growing up in Tennessee. After he left, I went into the studio and recorded this piece thinking about the field parties and my frie...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #392 — Debussy’s apple 德彪西的苹果. This piece was created and recorded yesterday. Two days ago, I had my alarm clock on my iPhone set for my children to stop doing computer work. The sound I had chosen was “slow rise” because it was the most mellow one in all the sound samples. As I was holding my phone and...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #388 — Honey carnival 闺蜜. This composition was created and recorded yesterday on multipart guzheng, performed me. I was intrigued by a TikTok video about the powerful female worker bees yesterday. There has been a lot of butterflies in the forest, as well as hummingbirds and wasps. They all like sugar water...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #387 — Hammer and hooks 锤子和钩子. This piece was composed and recorded yesterday on percussion and muted guzheng. Beside playing the muted guzheng in a normal way, I played the wooden body of the guzhengs again for most of the percussive tracks. When was looking around to find new sound element in the room,...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #383 — A bumble bee in Greenland 格陵兰的小黄蜂. This composition was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. Two years ago today, on August 2, 2019, my parents arrived in the U.S. from their hometown Beijing. It was their first time coming to the U.S., and it was my mom’s first...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #382 — The chocolate house 巧克力舞会. This composition was created and recorded yesterday on vocals and guzheng performed by me. I was amazed by all the athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. It brought me back to the trip of the 2010 South Africa World Cup I had with my then fiancé . As a life-long sports fan, it...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #378 — Jupiter’s hat 宙斯的帽子. This solo guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday. I have been hiking in early morning since summer started. The forest is full of spider webs. The morning mist and sunlight through the leaves created a dreamy mirror. Hope you are having a dreamy start of the week! Wu Fei...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #377 — Bouncing in the Arctic 北极. This composition was created and recorded yesterday on four-track, double guzheng. I had a dream two nights ago that I was in the Arctic with an old friend from middle school. I haven’t seen her for more than twenty years. How interesting it is that we sometimes reconnect w...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #373 — Triads 三连. This choral composition was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack vocals and guzheng, performed by me. The entire work is based on a sequence of major triads. I sing the middle pitches and play the two outer pitches. Since the 20th century, major triads in classical music have been...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for your generous support to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #372 — Nothing in between 颤风. This improvisation was recorded yesterday on solo guzheng. I felt pumped up and needed to unleash my energy at this moment. Because I was playing enormously hard, my right hand accidentally hit the mic the last second of the recording. I thought it’s a perfect way to...