Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1409092136200.15466@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Lulu Guqin Music, please have a listen, share!
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:39:41 -0400 (EDT)
Lulu Guqin Music, please have a listen, share! http://www.alansondheim.org/lulu4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/lulu1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/lulu2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/lulu6.jpg This makes me happy: playing two qin together; the older one is the darker. The hui markers are out of position on both; the older is fairly battered. They're not tuned together; each for me reflects a different set of lu (pitches) - hence lulu, a movement from one universal harmony to another. Here, they're played together, dissonant, entangled in parallel strokes, mingled. I love the result which at times sounds like bells ringing changes. It's peaceful, energized, swirling. As far as I know, qin are never played like this, but the heavens will understand and forgive me, yes? Thanks to Stephen Dydo -