Post by SCWGuqin on Oct 27, 2006 3:53:50 GMT
OK, I just had a major breakthrough on Ping Sha Luo Yan which might change my approach to the entire piece. (I'm using the northern/Qinxue Congshu version, but this should probably hold in some form for the others too.)
Firstly, what do you all think is the 'meaning' of this piece? I've always found it to be desolate and meditative, broad but also with a touch of anger or sadness. The image of geese I always associated with the "qiu hong" line of thinking that makes geese flying south the image of retreating from the world and going into exile. Hence my feeling about the piece is that its desolation/anger fundamentally has to do with feeling out of place, with wanting to escape--and the geese call that image to mind.
Now near the end of the piece is a technique supposed to imitate the sound of the goose-call. Basically you're on 5th string between hui 8 and 9 (gong), and you slide back and forth with the note shang on the string above. The piece proceeds after this with some more pressed note and then ends on harmonics.
WHY NOT...WHY NOT...make the goose-call the END of the piece. Repeat it three, maybe four times, each time slower, softer, more distant, with a little distortion (microtonal sliding down on gong). Like the geese receding from view, and you can't follow them. Practicing this just now, I found it extremely evocative and even heartbreaking.
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Firstly, what do you all think is the 'meaning' of this piece? I've always found it to be desolate and meditative, broad but also with a touch of anger or sadness. The image of geese I always associated with the "qiu hong" line of thinking that makes geese flying south the image of retreating from the world and going into exile. Hence my feeling about the piece is that its desolation/anger fundamentally has to do with feeling out of place, with wanting to escape--and the geese call that image to mind.
Now near the end of the piece is a technique supposed to imitate the sound of the goose-call. Basically you're on 5th string between hui 8 and 9 (gong), and you slide back and forth with the note shang on the string above. The piece proceeds after this with some more pressed note and then ends on harmonics.
WHY NOT...WHY NOT...make the goose-call the END of the piece. Repeat it three, maybe four times, each time slower, softer, more distant, with a little distortion (microtonal sliding down on gong). Like the geese receding from view, and you can't follow them. Practicing this just now, I found it extremely evocative and even heartbreaking.
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
