pipa now http://www.alansondheim.org/pipanow.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/pipanow.jpg third attempt playing. I've recorded with the instrument before, as all the nonsense below indicates. at the moment I'm working with the Japanese _in_ scale in a rather messy way. I have no idea whether this particular direction is worth pursuing. but i do now and it is. all, opting for nylon-wound pipa ade, and nylon a. all i can do is play the pipa and struggle. never heard pipa or pipa solo, certainly not this recent one. the pipa led me to classical chinese music, the signature martial ambush work. using pickup finger movements from classical pipa i crash-landed into pipa as interference, pipa as accompaniment. finally a pipa solo with some degree of distorted mastery. the pipa expresses martial rage and untoward calming beauty. through biwa, through pipa, such beauty, more of biwa, i of pipa, eye of pipa. then during the severe storms out here, pipa and hail and playing through a migraine (visual distortion, light-headedness): and turned, the pipa rising among the buddhas, we have heard, we have been told, the pipa has a percussive, almost gritty sound, phrases the sharp onset resonate with a mirrored world. play the machiner sound of hurricane or the sound of traffic, play the beauty of each note resonant through reverberation and interference with every other, the loneliness of the distance of its skyward curvature grounded with melancholy and precise weight. now the sound of the pipa as of forlorn, the solo pipa which weather kept away solo pipa which weather kept away solo pipa which weather kept away was the same solo pipa which weather kept away __ the listing of its own music: a accompaniment ade all almost ambush among and as away beauty been biwa buddhas calming can certainly chinese classical crash curvature degree distance distorted distortion do during each every expresses eye finally finger for forlorn from gritty grounded haev hail has have headedness heard here hurricane i interference into is its kept landed led light loneliness machiner martial mastery me melancholy migraine mirrored more movements music never not note now nylon of one onset opting or other out percussive phrases pickup pipa play playing precise rage recent resonant resonate reverberation rising same severe sharp signature skyward solo some sound storms struggle such the then this through to told traffic turned untoward using visual was we weather weight which with work world wound to be read to the tune of pipanow. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
