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Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #503 — Elle from Montréal 艾老师. This multitrack vocal + guzheng piece was composed yesterday, performed by me. I would like to dedicate it to a very special woman who has touched our family since we moved to Nashville in 2015. Her is name Helene “Elle” Harvey, teacher, director, and founder of A New Leaf an...

Hi everyone, Thank you for your generous support to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #500 — Charlotte lullaby 1 夏洛特摇篮曲之一. This vocal and guzheng piece was recorded last night. After a busy day driving my family all over town, I finally had a moment to practice music. It had been a while since I recorded music at night time. Playing music in the dark brings out very different of yearni...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #499 — Pot bellies 冰塔. This multitrack guzheng piece was created and recorded yesterday, performed by me. I was amused by these cool looking icicles (photo below) and wrote this song for them. It was fun putting this composition together. Hope you enjoy it! Wu Fei Twitter @wufei Facebook @realwufeimusic Ins...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #498 — Frisbee turtle 飞盘龟. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. My daughter was reading the latest issue of a magazine that seh reads called Ask . She was naming some pictures on a page and I heard “Frisbee turtle”. How perfect! I gave myself a proposition t...

Happy Tuesday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #495 — A boot in the woods 草靴子. Hope you had a wonderful long weekend if you were in the U.S.. I celebrated Martin Luther King Day by creating this piece yesterday on guzheng. It has been raining and snowing in the last few days in Nashville. I got to see all kinds of different scenes in the forest. One d...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #494 — Moon hunter 月球猎人. This composition was created yesterday, performed by me on multitrack guzheng. When I look at the photo below, I see endless patterns — random on the surface when every piece of flake coming from the same origin. The patterns look like a song. And then, I went down a rabbit hole o...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #490 — In my pitches 字里行间. This piece was created yesterday, performed by me on partly prepared guzheng. I had a fun time watching the birds eating on our bird feeder the last few days. Their interaction with each other while they ate was quite interesting. There were timid birds. There were brave birds....

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #489 — The silent fable 无声的寓言. This vocal and guzheng piece was created and performed by me yesterday. The snow came down quickly and quietly in the morning yesterday. It went from nothing on the ground to an inch of snow in less than 10 minutes. I tried to listen to the sound of the massive snow flakes....

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #485 — Lady Crane 鹤夫人. This composition was created yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. The scale is a combination of major, minor and the Balinese gamelan scale. The timbre is a mixture of open strings and half muted overtones. The photo below is of a Chinese vase that I saw in The Metropoli...

Happy New Year everyone, 2022 is just around the corner. It has been another year that we all have been trying to move forward in the middle of the pandemic. Every now and then I realize how far I have made posting new music here. But most of the time, I don’t even think about it. It has become such a fun part of my daily life, especially when I know I am connecting to so many of you all over the...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #481 — Sweeping round and round 七月的北斗. This piece was created yesterday on multitrack guzheng, performed by me. The inspiration was from a painting on a ceramic vase (photo below) that I saw in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City recently. It was from the Qing Dynasty (1644- 1911) period. The...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #478 —North of the river 河北. This vocal and guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday, performed by me. The holiday traveling week has begun. I feel very lucky and grateful for having my family with me for another holiday. Meanwhile, I feel sad for not being with my New Zealand family for another holiday...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #477 — Bartók’s butterfly 巴托克蝴蝶. This composition was created and recorded yesterday, performed by me on multitrack guzheng. In the previous episode #476, I was inspired by Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967). This piece, I am inspired by another Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945). The two composers were v...

Good morning everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #473 — Sleeping, walking 行入睡. This piece was created and recorded on guzheng, performed by me. Last Friday, we experienced a very scary moment when the quad-state tornado came through Nashville. It was at 3:30am when the tornado siren went off on my phone. I could hear the storm screaming louder and louder...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #472 — The great whistle 大哨. This guzheng improvisation was recorded yesterday. I didn’t wear finger picks for this recording. Every now and then, I like to feel the direct connection between my fingers and the strings. It gives a softer tone than the sound produced by finger picks. Playing without picks al...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #468 — Fifty seven feet 五十七尺. This guzheng composition was created yesterday, performed by me. I was trying to minimize the movement on my hands to stay leveled with the strings in the calmest manner I could, like when a humming bird drinks nectar — the more relaxed its body is, the faster its wings flap....

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #467 — The purple fish escape plan 紫鱼阵. This composition was created yesterday on multitrack prepared guzheng, performed by me. I gave myself another challenge in this piece — playing the tempo at 190 beats per minute. I felt a little hesitant to begin the recording with 16th notes. Right around 2:20, my h...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #463 — Kalimba night song 1 卡林巴夜曲一号. Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving holiday if you are in the U.S.. Hanukkah 2021 has started since Sunday. Hope you are having a wonderful festival if you celebrate this Jewish tradition. This piece was created and recorded yesterday on kalimba and guzheng, p...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #461 — Grandma Zhao 赵姥姥. This piano piece was composed and recorded yesterday, performed by me. It was a rainy and grey day in Nashville. Weather always effects our mood and thoughts. I walked in my studio not having any artistic direction. As soon as I touched the keys on the piano, a wicked old lady walk...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #460 — Nature is slippery 初秋，出溜. This piano piece was composed and recorded yesterday, performed by me. The hiking paths in the forest are covered by leaves. The steep hills are very slippery to walk on. I fell on my elbow yesterday. Luckily, I wasn’t hurt. And then I realized that the paths are always s...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #456 — Old toys, new toys 旧爱新欢. This guzheng composition was created and recorded yesterday, performed by me. It is a piece entirely built on tremolos. My son recently re-discovered a bunch of old toy cars of his in our smoke house. Apparently he didn’t remember having them, but was over joyed that the to...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #455 — Ground full of pears 梨花漫. This piece was composed and recorded on prepared multitrack guzheng, performed by me. It has been an exciting week for me. I flew on a plane for the first time since February 2020! Seeing earth from the sky again felt amazing. I did not want to take it for granted so I star...

Greetings from North Carolina everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #452 — Five star bug motel 五星厦. This solo guzheng composition was created and recorded two days ago, performed by me. It is another piece that I prepared the guzheng partially. This newsletter is free for everyone because I am excited to announce that the tickets for my solo concert at The...

Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #451 — Crispy steel 铁钉令. This piece was composed and recorded yesterday on guzheng, performed by me. I prepared the guzheng with two metal rings, and a bandanna. I also plucked a few microtone strings on the left side of the bridges. It was a fun experiment orchestrating all the sounds and pitches. Hope yo...

Happy Friday everyone, Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #450 — B minor 181 毕家一百八十一 This guzheng piece was composed and recorded yesterday, performed by me. The inspiration came from Masada. In Hebrew is מצדה‎ metsada , — "fortress". Masada is an ancient fortification on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking t...