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Post by paulv on Nov 3, 2005 13:55:39 GMT
Since we've gone ahead and posted pictures of ourselves (including that dummy who doesn't know how to resize a jpeg image!), anyone interested in doing the same sort of thing for some music clips of ourselves?
Is there some equivalent to Photobucket where people could store mp3 files for free?
Just a thought...........
Regards,
Paul Valente
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Post by Charlie Huang on Nov 3, 2005 14:05:44 GMT
I have about 3 mp3s online somewhere in the guqin forum, but they are recorded in a poor recording quality.
As for mp3 servers, I do not know of any. The one I used (note past tense) was rather crappy, and you can only upload three files at a time...).
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Post by Dick on Nov 3, 2005 18:37:05 GMT
I recorded myself at home playing a few (rather simple) tunes on Xiao and Dizi, posted them (with what you might call pedagogical intent) on our website. The Xiao recordings are: |
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Post by Dick on Nov 3, 2005 18:46:36 GMT
Almost forgot -- I also posted an original composition inspired by, and performed on, three beautiful flutes that I obtained during a visit to the Hangzhou workshop of M.Z.Ying. It can be found and heard at www.myspace.com/nwsax. You might have to click on the link for "Sunrise Fanfare" to hear the flute piece. |
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Post by paulv on Nov 4, 2005 13:30:16 GMT
Hi Dick,
Checked out your tunes -- they sound great! Like the picture of you with your tenor sax on your site. By the way, I noticed one of your friends is a young lady playing bari-sax -- the sax looks like it is as big as her!
My roots are also in jazz -- I played vibraphone for several years (back in the '60s & '70s) and arranged music. I gave up the idea of being a professional musician when other students at the music school, who were much better than I, couldn't find jobs.
Now I enjoy learning erhu and learning many of the old, lyrical, soft-flowing traditional songs. Studying erhu is much, much different than playing vibes!
If I ever get to Seattle again (lived there back in the '80s) I look you up. By the way, since you play tenor, do you double on soprano? It seems that since the days of John Coltrane (my jazz hero even though I don't play reeds), everybody is doubling on soprano sax.
Regards,
Paul Valente
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Post by Dick on Nov 4, 2005 18:04:21 GMT
Hey thanks for your kind comments Paul. That picture was taken last July in Oaxaca, Mexico, when my band performed in the town square for an enthusiastic audience of four or five hundred. Believe me, that was so fun. I love the picture, in part because it shows a slice of the Oaxaqueno crowd in background.
To answer your questions: My esthetic was severely influenced (some say "warped" ha ha) by the free and avant garde post bop jazz of the 60's and 70's. I had the privilege to study with Joe Henderson for a few years. I dig guys like Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, and Anthony Braxton, who incorporate disparate and exotic elements into what they styled "Great Black Music." Many of those guys worked out of fantastically varied multi-instrumentalist bags.
So that's kind of my deal. I play free improv, "legit" classical, chamber music, jazz, r&b, noise, traditional Chinese, Mexican, new age, punk, samba, capoeira, and other styles. Sometimes at the same time. I've been known to incorporate elements of Persian, Turkish, Peruvian, Indian, and Egyptian sonorities also. There is no music from which I will not steal ideas.
I can't list the instruments I play on a business card. Tenor, baritone, soprano, and sopranino saxophones. Bass clarinet, a-flat "piccolo" clarinet. Silver flute and piccolo. Hulusi, suona, guan. Xiao, dizi, xun, ney (Turkish and Persian styles), nai, qena, kenacho, shakuhachi, bansuri, penny whistle, nose flute. WX-5 and synthesizers. Digeridu, atoke, agogo, pandeiro, berimbau, djembe, triangle and assorted shakers. Somebody send me a cuica! I sing, too, until I'm asked to quit.
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Post by paulv on Nov 5, 2005 0:25:30 GMT
Cool.......your're a real reeds man. All you have to do now is play several instruments at a time so you can replace Roland Kirk! I, too grew up with the '60s & '70s jazz -- love the stuff.
Regards
Paul Valente
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Post by Vi An on Dec 9, 2005 17:56:18 GMT
if anyone's interested i have a few mp3 clips loaded onto www.myspace.com/vian two electronic pieces and two long zither pieces, one of the pieces of electronic experiments "Bad Bar" (as in the bars in music) i attempt on singing. this is a first on the internet where my voice is actually used in my own music, well, not true -- i have sampled my voice before but only "gibberish" ooooh and aaahhhs. hope you'll like? v:. |
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Post by sitorimon on May 12, 2006 16:54:04 GMT
Hi all, Not chinese traditional I know but I have my first demo CD recorded and 4 of the 10 songs to be on it are on my myspace page. www.myspace.com/sitorimon if anyone is intrested! Many thanks Sitorimon |
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Post by Charlie Huang on May 12, 2006 17:08:43 GMT
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Post by pqleyr on Oct 16, 2007 16:04:42 GMT
There is no erhu or xiao on these tracks, but this is some of the music that I make with my sister: www.myspace.com/beanandamooHope it entertains someone! |
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