Dancing and flexibility in the body
Monday, 12 December 2022
Saturday, 10 December 2022
"Confessa" DiySingingDay128 // Song no2 // Day 2
"Confessa" DiySingingDay128 // Song no2 // Day 2
Confessa
來吧 拆穿吧我的愛
來吧 不愛我給我個痛快
來吧 要遺憾就遺憾
來吧 親手把晚餐都掀翻
就像甜過後都會酸呀
就像風一吹都要散呀
我是燒完的一點灰呀
別假裝蝴蝶
Ma
perché tu sei un'altra donna
Ma perché tu non sei più tu
Che ne hai fatto del nostro bene
È diventato un freddo brivido
Le risate, le nostre cene
Scene ormai irrecuperabili
Io non sono più il tuo pensiero
Non sono più il tuo amore vero
Sono
il dolce col fondo amaro
Che non mangi più
Che non mangi più
Ma perché tu sei un'altra
donna
Ma perché tu non sei più tu
Ma perché non l'hai detto prima
Chi non ama non sarà amato mai
Quando viene la sera
E il ricordo pian piano scompare
La tristezza nel cuore
Apre un vuoto più grande del mare
Più grande del mare
Tu sei un'altra donna
Ma perché tu non sei più tu
Chi non ama non sarà amato mai
Original song writer performer
Adriano Celentano / Адриано Челентано - Confessa (official version, HD)
Friday, 9 December 2022
Red Sparrow 2018 *** half dir Francis Lawrence
Red Sparrow 2018 *** half dir Francis Lawrence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sparrow
Jennifer Lawrence is v gd here, she has the tough and sweet quality needed for the role.
The part where she challenged the Matrons "test" with the guy tester is v gd.
If you push it a little more, it might mean, a hidden message really, that the woman body is stronger than the man.
If she commands him - she is not really a victim - she commands him but he cannot get it up.
Because there is a myth in todays society, for some reason woman always almost always are "obediant", why?
They have been taught to be ashamed of their sexual capacities.
But lets not dwell on this, because so much work has been done already,
i wont to able to provide more cases, evidence, research output etc to further the case.
However, I think this is a very important scene with a slightly more chewable message. The rest is entertainment.
It is a gd point to make and put forth so to speak through this scene.
Of course JL is beautiful, and young. Gd actress.
All through the movie, who do we look at?
Her. :)
Overall, the story line is v quick as with most contemporary movies, especial entertainment type of movies. Nobody really cares who is spy, who are the double spies, how the mole got away. Too much info, we already know JL will not die in the end. If she did, somebody must change the ending to not irritate the movie goers.
So, a bit like Marilyn Monroe, you dont cut out the star, she is the main attraction.
Monday, 5 December 2022
" 9 string qin" : transforming 7 strings to 9 strings on an extg wood qin
"Large Handscroll" lighter color one
"xyz" with string full bridge on left
"xyz" w full bridge, bottom right
Advantage of doing alteration using an existing qin is that its reversible.
You could always go back to 7 strings, if you did not re-drill positions of the holes.
That is why I think the Large Handscroll is a better candidate for the transformation.
I have two existing wood qins that could be used to add strings to.
Eventually, one of them maybe used to change into a 9 string qin
I have made them myself and they both have v gd sounds
1// Large handscroll, this one has a wider body with a bridge that can include 2 extra strings on the end, although it is at the limits
2// xyz qin in Shan wood (fir), this one has a full flush edge to edge bridge, so all the holes could be re-distributed to make room for 2 more strings
Now, whats the advantage of having 9 strings, is it really gd for a new idiom?
I listen to the sound track on John Thompsons site, it is a v beautiful tune.
That is why I think the Large Handscroll is a better candidate for the transformation.
I have two existing wood qins that could be used to add strings to.
Eventually, one of them maybe used to change into a 9 string qin
I have made them myself and they both have v gd sounds
1// Large handscroll, this one has a wider body with a bridge that can include 2 extra strings on the end, although it is at the limits
2// xyz qin in Shan wood (fir), this one has a full flush edge to edge bridge, so all the holes could be re-distributed to make room for 2 more strings
Now, whats the advantage of having 9 strings, is it really gd for a new idiom?
I listen to the sound track on John Thompsons site, it is a v beautiful tune.
What to do?
Making a new, specially designed for 9 string qin w 3D printing would be interesting, maybe to make it the same model as one of the two above so we could compare?
First get a 3D printer and we can go on.
3D printing is also a repeatable method, more or less, even though each print is - especially if you inspect it on a microscopic scale - still an original, because due to temperature and time conditions, each output would be unique too.
We could eventually print w customised filaments making the embryo w different porosity depending on the settings of the print.
Friday, 2 December 2022
"9 string Guqin", requested by Juni Yeung, and the raison d'être - long story short
Juni explains what she wishes for her paper in Aug, to demonstrate her idea with a real working model.
Juni adds a simpler
explanation to readers.... the longer version will be in the paper to come
"I'm not really changing anything but the way how we tune our 7 strings heptatonically. To do that I need 2 more strings"
Image of a 9 string qin here,
stay tuned for update of suitable image
further reading and references on page of John Thompson,
Failure of the nine-string qin
The Qin Shi entry mentions the attempt to develop a nine-string qin but does not give details. For example, it does not mention tuning. The common assumption is that, as with 1618, the tuning remained pentatonic, adding notes on top or bottom, rather than using these extra strings to create a diatonic tuning (perhaps the 7 note scale plus two octave notes). A related observation: with a nine-string qin it should still be possible to play open string octaves (on the 1st and 8th or 2nd and 9th strings, assuming one can make slightly smaller instruments for smaller hands).
Thus it seems likely that the nine-string qin failed largely because the aim was to make the new instrument play the old music better rather than to develop new music: new idioms. But had they been trying to create a new idiom, what might that have sounded like?
Qin music has always been largely pentatonic; non-pentatonic notes, while more frequent in the surviving early repertoire (see especially modal details for Jieshi Diao You Lan), seem to be there largely for extra color rather than being structurally important: thus even there the melodies all remain primarily pentatonic.6 Furthermore, preliminary attempts to play melodies from the pentatonically tuned nine-string qin tablature from 1618 suggest that they can fairly easily be adapted for seven-string qin. This can perhaps be partially explained by showing the notes available in the most common harmonic positions (7th plus 5th and 9th hui) if a seven-string qin tuned pentatonically is expanded to be a nine-string qin:
5th and 9th: 2 3 5 6 7 2 3
Nine string qin tuned pentatonically:
5th and 9th: 2 3 5 6 7 2 3 5 6
As can be seen, the relative note 4 (fa) cannot be played here. To play 4 in harmonics requires a string tuned to 4 played in the 7th position and/or one tuned to 7 played in the 5th or 9th position. This seems to demonstrate the difficulties of playing an interesting diatonic melody on a qin using pentatonic tuning, whether it has seven-strings or nine.
Does this mean that for playing truly diatonic (heptatonic) melodies one should try either a 7 string or a 9 string qin using a relative diatonic tuning. Since qin idiom strongly suggests that it sounds good to play octaves, for diatonic music one should perhaps first try a nine-string qin tuned diatonically. For example,
this now is the same relative tuning as
5 6 7 1 2 3 4# 5 6 (harmonics at 9th hui: 2 3 4# 5 6 7 1 2 3)
Harmonics are used in this analysis because they are such a strong part of the qin idiom. As a result, this preliminary outline shows not only why the seven-string qin has difficulty playing melodies based on a diatonic scale (common Western melodies, for example), but also why extending the qin to having 9 strings, even if tuned diatonically, might still not make it easy to play diatonic melodies and still take advantage of all the opportunities provided by a qin, particularly in terms of playing the extended harmonic passages.
Thus the main use of a nine string qin might be for trying to create a radically new idiom.
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)
1. Song Taizong 宋太宗
趙匡儀 Zhao Kuangyi (939 - 997; 38015.209) reigned 976-998; his younger brother 趙匡胤 Zhao Kuangyin (927 - 976) had reigned as 太祖 Taizu 960-976.
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2. Song Taizong entry: 13 lines
Original text:
太宗皇帝神武聖文紹天承統，既平晉陽，混一六合，於 是戢雕戈，橐大弓，悠遊岩廊之上，講修盛德之事。而天 縱多能，博總群藝，書冠神品，棋登逸格，至於今古音律， 罔不研精。謂夫五弦之琴，文武加之以成七，乃留睿思 而究遺音，作為九弦之琴，五弦之阮，非達與禮樂之情 者，孰能與於此？ 又制九弦琴、五弦阮歌詩各一篇，琴譜 二卷，九弦琴譜二十卷，五經阮譜十七卷，藏於禁閣，副 在名山，又嘗作《萬國朝天》《平晉》二樂曲，聖制樂章各五 首，曲名三百九十首，臣竊謂三代而下，漢孝元善琴，孝 章議樂，俱不能有所製作，梁武帝論鍾律而徒聞其言， 唐明皇解音曲而未嘗及雅，惟吾太宗勛德巍巍，敷被 天淵而留神於正聲，抒懷於妙曲，自三代而下，未之有 也。
Not yet translated.
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4. Zhu Wenji 朱文濟
Qin Shi #142 tells of Zhu Wenji and the 9-string qin (see also the next footnote).
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5. Extant melodies for 9-string qin
The only ones I have found so far are the 5 examples in the 1618 handbook Lixing Yuanya (QQJC, VIII/318-332). These were presumably made up during the Ming dynasty, quite likely by the compiler of that handbook himself. All melodies in that handbook have lyrics.
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6. Persistence of pentatonic qin melodies
This runs counter to claims often made today that old qin melodies were often non-pentatonic. For example, Jieshi Diao You Lan (mentioned above) is sometimes said to be nine-tone whereas actually it is basically pentatonic with much added color from non-pentatonic tones..
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"Carbon Fiber guqin - Half HunDun" Shuen-git 2016
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Qin Song : Jí Lè Yín 極樂吟 (Melody of Great Happiness) Lyrics by Liǔ Zōng Yuán (773-819) 柳宗元 詞 (10 minutes)
https://newyorkqin.com/2022-
Live Streaming Recording 現場實況轉播: https://youtu.be/
starting from 1:22:28 here, i sang a qin song. :)
Shuen-git Natasha Chow 周 旋 捷 – Singing of Jí Lè Yín 極樂吟 (Melody of Great Happiness) Lyrics by Liǔ Zōng Yuán (773-819) 柳宗元 詞 (10 minutes)
nyqs + 9 string 3D printed guqin + sponsor call/list + London presentation by Juni Aug2023 + Qin Song NYQS
Carbon fiber guqin "Half HunDun"
Carbon fiber guqin "The WHO"
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Content
Shuengit Chow 周 旋 捷 – “Naming your Qin : Qin Making and naming your qin” (30 min)
Live Streaming Recording 現場實況轉播: https://youtu.be/
starting from 1:22:28 here, i sang a qin song. :)
Shuen-git Natasha Chow 周 旋 捷 – Singing of Jí Lè Yín 極樂吟 (Melody of Great Happiness) Lyrics by Liǔ Zōng Yuán (773-819) 柳宗元 詞 (10 minutes)
5// 9 string guqin, 3D printed embryo for London conference Aug 2023
model for the presentation of a paper by Juni Yeung, raison d'être
http://swannbb.blogspot.com/2022/12/9-string-guqin-requested-by-juni-yeung.html
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"9" 9 string guqin - 3D printed embryo
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9 string guqin, 3D printed embryo model for the presentation of a paper by Juni Yeung, London conference Aug 2023
fund raising for sponsors
Hello Dear friend,
We met yesterday in Paris and learnt with much pleasure that you also play the guqin.
Here is a friend from Hong Kong, and Toronto who is preparing to present an innovative paper /idea for a London Guqin event.
She has asked me to help her build a model of a 9 string guqin.
The raison d'être behind her scholarly research paper is here.
The London event usually has a few days of playing learning to play with master players from China.
For more detail, I will let you know in due time.
Would you like to participate in our " 9 string 3D printed guqin " project?
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If you like to participate, just add your name to the list and put the amount that you want to contribute.
Thank you kindly for your attention, any amount, all welcome!
Warmest regards
Shuen-git
Email: swannjiejie2@gmail.com,
subject line: 9 string Qin
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Sponsors list / Group /
I have received 4 sponsorships, 600euros to go 12dec2022
1// Hilda Ma 100eur exPro-bean counter - Chinese folk dancer for fun, Tibetan style + others
2// Jim Chan 100eur ex Prof Poet with extrodinary calligraphy brush work
3// anonymous 100eur IT professional
4// Juni Yeung 100eur guqin player, scholar, author of "Standards of Guqin" in English
https://www.amazon.com/Standards-Guqin-Juni-Yeung/dp/0986622508
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Carbon fiber guqin "9" (9 string)
phase 1, 30nov
3D printing embryo, sponsoring.
Meanwhile, there is an online qin community called New York Qin Society, here is an example of our event, there will be a year end zoom on dec11th.
Live Streaming Recording 現場實況轉播 : https://youtu.be/
starting from 1:22:28 here, I sang a qin song. :)
Shuen-git Natasha Chow 周 旋 捷 –
Singing of Jí Lè Yín 極樂吟 (Melody of Great Happiness)
Lyrics by Liǔ Zōng Yuán (773-819) 柳宗元 詞 (10 minutes)
If you would like to participate and be a sponsor, please add to the list below, your name, contact, and amount of contribution, all amounts welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Sg
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