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Good morning, afternoon, and evening everyone, I composed and recorded this new song with voice and on the valiha today. The valiha is a traditional 21-string tube zither from Madagascar (photo below). I want to thank my dear friends Tasha and David for bringing me this beautiful gift from Madagascar to Nashville. The valiha is made from a species of bamboo and is considered the national instrumen...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, Last night, I recorded this 2-track guzheng piece quite late. It’s been a stressful few days helping my parents renew their passports – dealing with family administration can be very challenging. When I took my father grocery shopping at our local international market earlier in the day, the old owner, Mr. Kim from Korea, greeted him as usual with a sweet smil...

Good afternoon, evening, and morning, This 3-track guzheng composition was created today. I was inspired by a bright pink flower that I saw in the town of Dötlingen, Germany a month ago when I was on tour with my new band-semble House of Wu Fei . We had a day off in Germany. Dötlingen was a lovely town full of beautiful gardens with flowers. I walked by a hot pink blossom (photo). However, I didn’...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This guzheng piece was filmed by my dear friend Lely who is also a guzheng musician and violinist. Lely is visiting me from Yale University where she founded and has been running the New Haven Chinese Cultural Cooperative since 2023. They promote traditional Chinese and Taiwanese music and give concerts in the greater New Haven area. Check out their website fo...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This meditative guzheng improvisation was recorded today, inspired by the warm color of the summer sunset in the forest near my home in Nashville, Tennessee (photo below). The short-lived sunset behind the dark green pine forest is always breathtaking. Shall I never take it for granted. Hope this song brings you joy and peace. Wu Fei 吴非 Wufeimusic.com This i...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I recorded this solo guzheng night song today. Yesterday, I saw a baby kingsnake in Edwin Warner Park in Nashville (photo below). It was scrawling on the hiking trail trying to get to the other side of the road. This summer has been much cooler than the previous years in Nashville. It also has been an exceptionally rainy year, with one of the wettest starts to...

Happy Friday everyone, I recorded this solo guzheng composition today with the memory of passing by the windmills in Hamburg two weeks ago. I was on tour in Europe with my new ensemble — House of Wu Fei. There were a lot of solar panels and windmills all over Europe. Using clean and renewable energy was in people’s life everywhere. It is quite different than where I live in Tennessee. On the tour,...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I composed this slow two-voice counterpoint waltz today. In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines (also called voices) that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term originates from the Latin punctus contra punctum meaning "point against point", i.e. "not...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I recorded this solo guzheng improvisation today with the memory of a horse sculpture I saw in Mechelen, Belgium two weeks ago. I was having dinner in the square of St. Rumbold’s Cathedral. I noticed this horse head above me. It had a subtle smile (photo below). How cute it is! Hope this piece brings you joy today. Wu Fei 吴非 Wufeimusic.com Wu Fei's Music Dai...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I recorded this étude today inspired by my encounter with a northern black racer snake during my hike in the forest yesterday (photo below). This kind of snake is common in the state of Ohio. In fact, the northern black racer is the state reptile of Ohio. Seeing it near my home makes me happy that our economy system must be good for the black racers. This snak...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I recorded this three-track guzheng piece today. One of the beautiful places I played in Europe with my new ensemble House of Wu Fei was in the Halmstad City Library. The glass art installation in the middle of the library was magical (photo below). Every time I looked up in front of me while I was playing, the colorful glass pieces took me to a wonder land. H...

Happy Friday everyone, I created this two-track guzheng piece today thinking about the walk I did with my band mates from the House of Wu Fei last week in a town called Dötlingen in Germany. An unexpected wheat farm popped out of the forest (photo below). It gave me a sense of sudden comfort that I wanted to lay on top of the farm. I hope this piece brings you sweet dreams tonight. Here is the lin...

Happy Friday everyone, I just created this solo guzheng étude in a very fast tempo. I didn’t wear finger picks and used a bandanna threading through the strings. You can hear the half muted sound effect of the guzheng. I was inspired by the fire pink flowers that are blossoming in the wet forest near my home in Nashville. The rain from earlier boosted a lot of new blossoms! Hope this piece brings...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This night song improvisation was recorded this morning. It captures the delicate pink early azaleas of Nashville. Yes, they have blossomed fully (photo below)! It is a song good for meditation if that is something you do. When I play or compose, I like to do deep breathing as I phrase the melodic passages. It feels like nature’s cycles—where flowers bloom, fa...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I composed and recorded this two-track guzheng piece this morning, inspired by a flamingo. My first sight when I entered the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans last week was a flamingo standing on one leg and taking a nap. As a yogi, that is a goal for me to work on now: to sleep standing on one leg! House of Wu Fei Europe Tour 2025 I will be sending out more free mus...

Happy Passover, Easter and Earth Day! My children had their spring break from school this last week. We went on a road trip to New Orleans. At the Audubon Zoo, a free-range peacock (photo below) caught our attention. It was my first time seeing a peacock only a few feet away opening up his tail. He shook his feathers and made loud callings. It was quite of a show! Apparently, he’s used to having h...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This guzheng solo was recorded today, inspired by the early pink azalea—also known as the pinxter flower (photo below). These delicate blooms are lighting up the hills of West Nashville right now, and they’re my favorite wildflowers in the area. Native to eastern North America, they thrive everywhere from Alabama to New Hampshire, their pink-and-white blossoms...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, Thank you for being patient with me for the last a few days! I had a great time performing for the community of University Notre Dame with my dear friend and music collaborator Abigail Washburn. We started off with a stressful drive leaving Nashville last Thursday. Tornado warnings and flood warnings kept popping out of our phones every twenty minutes. The rai...

Good morning, afternoon and evening, This two-track guzheng composition was recorded today. It is inspired by a Virginia spiderwort (photo) in the forest near my home. How brilliantly the purple and the yellow are together! The crispy green leaf is like an eye massager. I would love to have an outfit that has the exact same color combination as this flower with the same sunshine on me. I hear thes...

Good morning, afternoon and evening, Hope you are all having a restful Sunday. Thank you for being patient with me in the last few days. Today, I am back in my recording rhythm again. This improvisation was just recorded in my studio as the soft and constant rain was coming down. My crabapple tree is in full blossom now (photo below). I have been waiting for this day since a year ago. Hope my musi...

Good morning, afternoon and evening, I just recorded this two-track guzheng (partly prepared) piece today. I used a metal handle that fell off from a measuring cup as part of the instrument (photo below). Now, it is my new music toy and a tuning fork. It produces a perfect D (below A4). During my morning hike, I saw budding magnolia flowers in the forest (photo below) when many trees were still ba...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I just composed and recorded this piece on a warm spring day in Nashville. We had a big rain storm this weekend. There was a tornado watch alert. No tornado appeared, but a stretch of our road got washed up. It is drivable, but a repair is needed soon. Today, the weather is stunning again. Everything is growing. The birds, the creek, the frogs, the flowers, an...

Good morning, afternoon and evening, This piece was recorded yesterday after I heard the news of maestra composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s passing. She was 93 years old. The first time I learned about Gubaidulina’s work was when I was in high school studying composition at the China Conservatory of Music. One day, my main professor put this solo accordion recording on his Kenwood stereo (the best Japan...

Hi everyone, This video is the first one that I filmed outside this year. The weather is glorious in my Tennessee holler. I’ve double-dosed my allergy pills so that I can enjoy outdoor more. Playing music outside is the best, especially now before the bugs come out. Hope you enjoy this piece. You can hear my neighbor’s dog barking off and on in the background. Wu Fei 吴非 wufeimusic.com This is a...

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This three-track guzheng waltz was composed and recorded yesterday. I am never satisfied by music in tonal chromatic scale anymore. The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. In this piece, I initially laid down two tracks: the baseline and the melody, both in ton...