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A scholarly resource of recordings, liner notes, essays, and CD-quality audio ... from New World, Composers Recordings, and other innovative, important labels

Professional tanpura and shruti, high quality sound, five-band equalizer, advanced metronome, pitch/speed change, high-precision tuning, tone generator, audio-file player, and much more...

Qin music tends to linger on certain notes, with an emphasis on silence and timbre, giving it a meditative quality. Being an instrument historically associated with literati, its aim is Confucian (in trying to cultivate one's mind) as well as Daoist (in s

shengjiang 〔聲像〕 or "manifestations of sound" of the qin.

QUALITIES: tribal, minimalistic, trance-like claps (rather than progressive house's snare drums); deep, penetrating, lowtempo beats, foreboding, lyrics+sounds, melancholic, dreamy...can get horrific (screeching, moaning, electronic pulses found in horror movies), intricate basslines w/ pitch changes

Why Magnatune is not evil: We work directly with independent musicians world-wide to give you downloads of MP3s and perfect-quality WAV files. We never work with major labels, and our musicians always get 50%. You can listen to every album in its entirety before buying or becoming a member.

Wayne Shorter (alto & soprano saxophones), Danilo Perez (piano), John Patitucci (bass), Brian Blades (drums). For a super-high-quality, professional video of this stellar performance given by Shorter on his 75th birthday, see: http://tr.im/DHhO

At fifteen years old, he won the Ramón Montoya Prize in the Concurso Nacional (National Competition) in Córdoba.