Like many kids, I like to breed singing insects in my childhood. I self-taught wind instruments. One of my personal learning methods is to observe ways of singing of insects. Of course, this is not a simple imitation. For me, the vibration of tube reed is no different from the flapping of singing insects. From this perspective, all the insects are my teachers. I name all the tracks collected in this album after “vibration practice” to show my learning from these insects, in addition to some of my field recordings of singing insects.
2019, Shangai, Jun-Y Ciao
*soprano saxophone on vibration practice I,II,III,IV,V,VI,XXI,XXII,XXIII,XXIV,XXV,XXVI,XXVII,XXVIII
swanee soprano saxophone on vibration practice VII,VIII,IX,X,XI,XII,XIII,XIV
alto saxophone on vibration practice XV,XVI,XVII,XVIII,XIX,XXIX
May 08,2018 Recorded at The Sound Lab, College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University
Editing: Zhen Tao
Mastered by C-drík Fermont
Translated by Jing Wang
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