2023 2nd Guqin Yaji

Music, Silk String & Alternative Tuning System
雲端雅集 古琴音樂與坐談 – 弦絲及替代調音系統

Time: Sunday, February 26, 2023 15:00 EST

Feb 26 Yaji Programme ::  Silk String & Alternative Tuning System

1st hour > Music Playing starting 3pm, 5 players

Guest. Liu Tie 劉 鐵 – Qin Playing 鷗鷺忘機 Ōulù wàngjī (Innocent Seagulls)
Tung Chen 陳 曈 – Qin Playing 風雷引 Fēngléi yin (Wind and Thunder)  
Andrea Lioy – Qin Playing 醉漁唱晚 Zuì Yú Chàng Wǎn (A Drunken Fisherman Sings in the Evening)
Alan Yip 葉沛霖 – Qin Playing 春思 Chūn Sī (Spring Thoughts)
Guest. Coral Liang – Xiao bamboo flute playing, 平沙落雁 Píngshā Luòyàn (Wild Geese Flock to Sandy Shores)

2nd hour > Qin Talk starting at 4pm approx.

André Ribeiro 林柏儒 « announcing the keynote speakers.»

Juni Yeung  楊雪亭 – « applied dapu transcription, heptatonism, and the need to expand our strings to be heptatonically tuned as an alternative tuning system for our instrument. »

Guest. Geng Wang 王 耕 « Why silk strings »

Mr. Wang Geng’s qin playing on silk string in 2016

Abstract: For the past 100 years, silk string making is always at mysterious status. Only pieces of information are reconstructed from antique books and low-quality silk string makers, especially Chinese traditional silk string. The following talk will mainly focus on,

1. Why silk strings?

2. Evidence of historical silk strings worldwide and analysis.

3. Aesthetic change concerning silk string and qin playing.

(On qin making, I’d like to share my view on the concept of silk string qin.)

{ending at 17:55} 2h55 min

Bios of Artists 藝術家簡介

Chat Room Record

Attendance

Tung Chen, Alan Yip, Andrea Lloy, Char Chi Teng, Coral Liang, Daniel Sutter, Hugo Andres Forero Platino, Joao Oliverira, John Thompson, John Yang, Lawrence Kaster, Lisa Raphals, Marilyn Wong Gleysteen, , Matthew Flannery, Mingmei Yip, Peiyou Chang,  Juni Yeung , Sue Chung, Tie Liu, Yanchen Zhang, Victor Vermelho, Yi Hu, Geng Wang, Andre Riberiro, W Pei, Stephen Dydo, Shanny Li

Documentation: Peiyou Chang