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Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:01 pm

http://www.beibeizheng.com/music.html

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:04 pm

full tracks are on her MySpace page

kilroy · Post by **kilroy** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:24 am

Shane...thanks for this post, mate.

I love the guzheng, and this lass is very accomplished. Her playing is very tasteful and expressive. The guzheng is very difficult to truly master...it takes years of careful study to play it with any traditional skill. I love that Bei Bei is willing to venture into modern directions whilst still honouring the cultural folk traditions of zheng music.

If you like guzheng music, I would also look into Cynthia Hsiang recordings. She is also quite an accomplished pianist.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:37 pm

New performance by Bei Bei. She rocks on some cool dissonance on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcfcfHrA ... 4282%2D8b4

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:03 pm

wow, cool stuff Shane!. Apparantly she plays right around here. I am going to have to go see a show, when it rolls around.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:50 pm

ouroboros wrote:wow, cool stuff Shane!. Apparantly she plays right around here. I am going to have to go see a show, when it rolls around.

Did you send me a map a few years ago?

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:52 pm

Another fantastic player, completely different aesthetic, too:

http://www.wufeimusic.com/

http://www.wufeimusic.com/Music/Red%20Carriage.mp3

VicDiesel · Post by **VicDiesel** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:50 pm

More Chinese music. I hope these guys, eh galls, will bring out a CD quickly. The mp3 fragments are very promising.

http://www.ukchinesemusic.com/ssq.html

Victor.

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:01 pm

Shane Sanders wrote:New performance by Bei Bei. She rocks on some cool dissonance on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcfcfHrA ... 4282%2D8b4

That was awesome.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:10 pm

Shane Sanders wrote:
ouroboros wrote:wow, cool stuff Shane!. Apparantly she plays right around here. I am going to have to go see a show, when it rolls around.
Did you send me a map a few years ago?

'yup

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:15 pm

awesome instrument (wasn't aware of - sounds almost like a koto) and musicianship.. I could listen to this stuff for hours..

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:40 pm

ouroboros wrote:
Shane Sanders wrote:
ouroboros wrote:wow, cool stuff Shane!. Apparantly she plays right around here. I am going to have to go see a show, when it rolls around.
Did you send me a map a few years ago?
'yup

I was trying so hard to remember who did that for me a while back. I even started a thread about it. Basically, I wanted to offer the four Sample Squad packs that I've created to you for free. PM me with a private email addy I can use to associate with the serial numbers if you'd like to have them.

When you mentioned that you lived near Bei Bei, that's when it triggered in my brain that it was probably you. My memory is so bad these days.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:46 pm

I'm about 90% convinced that this model is the one I'm going to get:

http://www.chinesezither.net/rosewoodquartersawn.html

It means I won't get my Steinberger baritone for a while, but I really think I'll be able to do some cool things with this. I can already hear the natural effects I'll be able to squeeze out of it using a slide or various 'prepared' string approaches. But the real draw for me is the technique of using the other side of the bridges for vibrato and string bending. I am so drawn to those types of things, very vocal in approach yet still abstracted. Plus, you can do harmonics on it and then bend those!

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:51 pm

VitaminD wrote:awesome instrument (wasn't aware of - sounds almost like a koto) and musicianship.. I could listen to this stuff for hours..

From what I've read these past few weeks, it is the forerunner of the koto. The qin may be the forerunner of all Asian zithers, though. But I'm not sure.

If you liked the Gu Zheng, you'll also like the Gu Qin. This guy has about 300 minutes of free stuff on his site and he works from the most ancient of pieces (I listened to much of it today for the first time). In fact, the written works for this instrument are the oldest on earth in terms of what has been preserved. They had a system that could capture details about a particular performance even, so this guy has looked into all that. It's basically a giant fretless zither that you fret with your hand. This guy uses silk strings, but most modern players are using steel now.

http://www.silkqin.com/06hear.htm

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:09 am

VicDiesel wrote:More Chinese music. I hope these guys, eh galls, will bring out a CD quickly. The mp3 fragments are very promising.

http://www.ukchinesemusic.com/ssq.html

Victor.

Cool! Thanks for letting us know about them.

intense Gu Zheng player