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Yi Gu Ren

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The basis for this guqin & shakuhachi improvisation is the well known Chinese guqin piece 憶故人 (Yìgùrén), ‘Thinking of an Old Friend’. The origins of this piece date back to the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the guqin handbook 神奇秘譜 (Shénqímìpǔ). Yìgùrén is an often played piece because it represents an essential function of the guqin tradition: self-cultivation and self-expression. Over the course of a continuous 3,000 year history of practice, the elite Chinese scholars, who were the players of guqin, developed self-cultivation practices on guqin related to Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. In the Daoist context, guqin players would cultivate what the Daoist philosopher Zhuang Zhao referred to as 真人(zhēnrén), or ‘Real Self’. Through trusting the naturalness and spontaneity of one’s own intuitions (直, zhí), the real self would emerge as a unique personal style of playing on guqin. Such expression of inner depth on guqin was usually reserved for the playing of guqin alone, playing for a friend or for a small circle of friends. The title Thinking of an Old Friend reflects this self-expressive context and has been a sentiment present in the guqin tradition for thousands of years. This is evidenced in the ancient story of the guqin scholar who, when hearing of his close friend’s death, broke his guqin over his knee, stating that he could no longer play guqin because the only person who understood him and his guqin playing was no longer alive.

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from PAN Project, released September 17, 2021
Jeff Roberts, guqin; Ned Rothenberg, shakuhachi

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