Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

that`s so cool..

I am new to the forum and would like to introduce myself. My name is Philip De Genova and I live in Rome. I play western style flute - and have lately become close to oriental modes and scales, particularly Japanese, Korean and Chinese. I was drawn to their simplicity and naturalness in the sounds they evoked. I noticed that I began to take on a 'bamboo' sound while playing and have begun listening more and more to Shakuhachi and Daegum. I saw the forum and decided to join. Thank you all for presenting a sense of welcomness to the forum and I am certain that I shall benefit greatly from such an association. PD

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Yes. I loved the Segovia quote because as a musician, I am self taught. I'm laughing right now because I just found out the actual meaning of the word 'incorrigible' - a label that was sometimes applied to me as a youngster. I always thought it meant just plain 'bad kid' -- but it means unteachable. Then I learned recently in theology class that the word 'docile' really means 'teachable.' And of course I always thought it meant 'passive', or worse -- feminine. But I have noticed lately with the flute, that it requires an element of 'docility' or humility in a way similar to that of the student and his master.  PD

Tairaku ... I just today recieved the CD's I spoke of yesterday and I am very happy with them. His reputation follows him. He is surely as good as they say. Now the challenge is to attempt to duplicate that sound in 'silver', so to speak. Of one thing I am sure, I won't even be able to come close to the breath - that wonderful, incredibly mysterious rush of air that seems to come from some other place: like a quiet thunder coming out of the East. Playing along is a great exercise though. Looks like I'm getting ready for something huh?
I enjoyed your Segovia story immensely.   PD

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Geni.........Yes I agree........Its fascinating too to experience the sounds of a master in this way of sort of playing togetherwith him. I am amazed at the relationships of tuning between the shakuhachi and my flute. I had not too much trouble 'staying with it'. What I most enjoyed was bending the notes along with him. I Think 'staying with' him in this way is going to open me up to whole new range of sound.  Thank for your comments .........PD

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philipgelb ........Thank you for the comments and good suggestions. I will surely get to looking it up right away. Any ideas on how to acquire the score of Toru Takemitsu's "Voice" solo flute piece? I will look up the others on the internet. Thanks again

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rpowers ..................thank you for the information. I will get to it right away.PD

well well whadyno.........I just clicked it and there it was all ready and waiting for me .........Txs again

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At the risk of seeming somewhat selfish.......is there any possibility that I could get to hear this piece via MP3 or some other format on line courtesy of one of our esteemed forum members? From what I see of the score it would surely be necessary to first hear the piece in order to understand the notation. No sight reading here. While the chart at the end is vey helpful, the notational instructions, and the score itself for that matter, don't really provide me with enough information in terms of locating the sound of the piece.
A cursory reading of the score tells me that this is truly a combined work for Voice, flute and shakuhachi, (which, incidentally, are very 'vocal' instruments in themselves) possibily aiming to bring out the best features of both. I almost have the feeling that to play the piece as intended (i.e., well) I would have to sort of re-design my instrument - my brain even.        PD

PS how do we spell check in this comment box...or is that a silly Q

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Thanks A.....I do have Firefox on my C but don't use it much. I will look into it though. PD

dstone ....I was searching for that same thing myself..........PD

yea,,.....These little messages on the tail end of our post's really just mean that we (I) can't spell --> Ha ..............."Last edited by de_Genova"

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philipgelb .......yes I went to Ebay and Amazon and found her performance of Voice and just now am ordering it. You mention Severino Gazzeloni  -- You know what's really funny. He went to Santa Cecelia Academy (very famous and uppity) just around the corner from me. I pass by almost every day so the other day I went in to ask them if they had any classes in modern music like maybe Jazz and or new approaches to traditional Oriental music. They looked at me sort of askance. I'm smiling. The Italians are usually masters of understatement, but in this case they didn't even answer me -- just stood there staring at me. So I changed the subject to Luigi Boccherini et. al., and they were pleased. PD

PS I just saw your website and Pauline Oliveros' name. Amazing! -- she was a teacher of mine when I studied Visual Arts at UCSD in 1971.......she was great then (remarkably inventive and creative) and has probably mellowed with age. It really is a little world Huh?

and also.....I just ordered the Marchand CD from CD UNIVERSE Thanks for the info and all the help.

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