Voice of the Shakuhachi

Traditional and Contemporary Music for Japanese Bamboo Flute

Fulton Recital Hall.

Co-Sponsored by the University of Chicago Department of Music

and the Japanese Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies.

Michael Chikuzen Gould--Honshirabe

Honshirabe

 

Sanya (Three Valleys)

One form of meditation is to walk around the base of a mountain 1,000 times, or daily for 1,000 days.  Some believe this Zen piece for solo shakuhachi originated from that practice.  The sound flows much the same way as the valleys' paths around a mountain.

Shika No Tohne--Kuniyasu Iwazaki and Chikuzen Duet

Onoe No matsu (Pine on the Hilltop)--Chieko & Kuniyasu Iwazaki

All photos from HighDefinition Video  in 512kbps stereo sound of the complete concert performance.

Sanya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfcPP-lsBTM

When I'm left with nothing to say

  I vow with all beings

to rest content in the knowledge

there is really nothing to say.

--Robert Aitken