Podcast appearances and mentions of Wu Fei

A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week includes a collection of my selected readings on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I selected the articles because they are of interest to me. The selections often include things I entirely disagree with. But they express common opinions, or they provoke me to think. The articles are snippets sized to convey why they are of interest. Click on the headline, contents link, or the ‘More' link at the bottom of each piece to go to the original. I express my point of view in the editorial and the weekly video below.Hat Tip to this week's creators: @reidhoffman, @dougleone, , @credistick, @rex_woodbury, @NathanLands, @ItsUrBoyEvan, @berber_jin1, @cityofthetown, @keachhagey, @pmarca, @bhorowitz, , @signalrank, @steph_palazzolo, @julipuli, @MTemkin, @geneteare, @lorakolodny, @jasminewsun, @JBFlint, @asharma, @thesimonetti, @lessinContents* Editorial: * Essays of the Week* Crossing The Series A Chasm* The Consumer Renaissance* The Creator Economy on AI Steroids* AI Is Transforming the Nature of the Firm* The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI's Sam Altman Rich* Video of the Week* The American Dream - Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz* AI of the Week* SignalRank Version 3 Improves Performance Again* How Long Can OpenAI's First-Mover Advantage Last?* OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers* A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence* Nvidia hits $3tn and surpasses Apple as world's second-most valuable company* VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market* News Of the Week* Crunchbase Monthly Recap May 2024: AI Leads Alongside An Uptick In Billion-Dollar Rounds* Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI* Introducing video to Substack Chat* Instagram's Testing Video Ads That Stop You From Scrolling Further* Startup of the Week* NBA Nears $76 Billion TV Deal, a Defining Moment for Media and Sports* X of the Week* Doug Leone - I am supporting Trump. * Reid Hoffman - I am supporting BidenEditorialI woke on Tuesday to Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital on X saying:I have become increasingly concerned about the general direction of our country, the state of our broken immigration system, the ballooning deficit, and the foreign policy missteps, among other issues. Therefore, I am supporting former President Trump in this coming election.Doug has the right to support Trump. It is also clear that the immigration system is broken, the deficit is ballooning, many things are wrong with foreign policy, and there are “other issues.” Trump as the solution is less obvious. But there it is—hot on the tails of Chamath Palihipitaya and David Sacks announcing a fund-raiser for Trump on the All-In podcast (they said they would do the same for Biden).Reid Hoffman followed up a day later with:On one level, this is a straightforward choice, but any literate attempt to analyze Leone's issues might arrive at the following conclusions:* Like many Western nations, the USA is aging rapidly and has a shrinking working-age population across all skill sets. Immigrants are needed, and pro-immigration leadership is needed, creating a path to entry for large numbers of skilled and unskilled workers to fill empty jobs as we get close to full employment.* The deficit is large, and there are many palliatives available. Selling more to China would help, but both party leaders are protectionist. Taxes to reduce the divide between the 1% and the rest would help a bit. However, what would help the most is economic growth, which requires investment in technology and productivity. Neither leader seems too focused on innovation and investment.* Foreign Policy - well, sheesh, it's a big issue. However, saber-rattling about Taiwan and provoking China seems to be a hobby shared by both parties and does not seem smart. Ukraine and the future of Europe are better in Biden's hands, but not by a lot. Europe looks very shaky. The US is increasingly isolationist. The appetite for world leadership is on the decline. Again, the solution would focus on economic growth, which seems absent.Voting for Trump is a big no-no for me. But voting for Biden is, at best, a lesser evil instinct, not a belief system. The election will not be where the future is built, but it is important. Politicians are collectively disappointing.This week's video of the week from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz is called “The American Dream” and champions their view about American Dynamism. And I must confess that this comes closer to a vision of the future than either political outfit. Their vision requires political support, massive government financial commitment, and private capital investment. I see no evidence of those happening.The real winning effort seems to be happening on the ground. This week, Nvidia hit $3 trillion, eclipsing Apple as the world's second-most valuable company. This is even though Apple has 7 times the revenue of Nvidia.This week's first essays also focus on prospects for boom time. Rex Woodbury's ‘The Consumer Renaissance' examines the impact of consumer spending on our lives. In ‘The Creator Economy on AI Steroids, ' Nathan Lands focuses on how emerging tools will transform creativity. But in ‘AI Is Transforming the Nature of the Firm, ' Evan Armstrong gets closest to a future vision.”AI is the first universally flexible technology. It can interact with our digital environments in similar ways to humans, so it can have all the flexibility that we do. In that way, it may be the last technology we ever need.This seems to be the crux of hope in a world where dreams and nightmares are strangely devoid of detail. What the world needs (not only America) is hope. And hope is born from optimism. Optimism is born from success. The most likely success of the next decades will result from specific uses of AI that improve human life.I know and like Doug Leone. I know and like Reid Hoffman. Doug's bar for success needs to be higher. Voting for Trump is not right, and even if it were, it would not be sufficient.Reid also needs a higher bar. Voting for Biden will not be sufficient even if it is right.Let's focus on where success can be found, grow optimism, and breed hope. There is a need for a broad technical revolution and the social rebirth it enables. Silicon Valley and its friends globally need to invent the next version of human existence to the benefit of all. The social rebirth requires a conscious effort; technology will not magically bring it about. More in this week's video.Essays of the WeekCrossing The Series A ChasmDan GrayDan Gray, a frequent guest author for Crunchbase News, is the head of insights at Equidam, a startup valuation platform, and a venture partner at Social Impact Capital.June 5, 2024As we get deeper into 2024, there is increasing concern about the state of Series A fundraising. The bar for investment appears much higher, and fewer startups are reaching it.This is a problem for founders, and investors like Jenny Fielding, managing partner of Everywhere Ventures, who said, “Every Seed investor's dilemma: All my Series A buddies want to meet my companies early! All my companies are too early for my Series A buddies.”To attach some data to this, we can see that the median step-up in valuation from seed to Series A has gone from $19.5 million in Q1 2022 to $28.7 million in Q1 2024. Series A firms seem to be looking for much stronger revenue performance, with targets of $2 million to $3 million in ARR, compared to $1 million to $2 million just a few years ago.The outcome is that while 31.8% of Q1 2020 seed startups closed their Series A within two years, that fell to just 12% for Q1 2022 — which should worry everyone.Why are Series A investors so much more demanding?Today's Series A investors are looking at startups that raised their seed between 2021 and 2023, which identifies the root of the problem: it spans the Q2 2022 high-tide mark for venture capital.For example, there were 1,695 seed rounds of more than $5 million in 2021, rising to 2,248 in 2022, then falling to 1,521 in 2023. As a comparison, there have been just 137 so far in 2024.The result is two categories of startups that are looking to raise their Series A today:* Pre-crunch startups that raised generous seed rounds and stretched the capital out as far as they could, to grow into inflated valuations.* Post-crunch startups that raised modest seed rounds on more reasonable terms, with shorter runways and less demonstrable growth.Strictly speaking, neither is more appealing than the other; the first group has less risk, the second offers more upside, and both are adapted to current market realities. It shouldn't cause a problem for investors, provided they can distinguish between the two.The cost of market inefficiencyVenture investors have a market-based lens on investment decisions, which means looking fairly broadly at trends in revenue performance and round pricing to determine terms, e.g. a typical Series A is within certain bounds of revenue performance and valuation. While that approach may be serviceable and efficient under ideal conditions, the past few years have been far from ideal.Without distinguishing between the two cohorts, investors are now looking at the performance of Series A candidates that spent more than $5 million on a war chest for two to three years of growth alongside the valuations of candidates that raised around $2 million to prove scalability. It just doesn't work as an average, and thus the unreasonable expectations...MoreThe Consumer RenaissanceFrom Predicting Consumer AI Applications to Analyzing Consumer SpendREX WOODBURY, JUN 05, 2024“Consumer” has become something of a bad word in venture capital circles.We see this reflected in the early-stage markets: recent data from Carta showed that just 7.1% of Seed capital raised last year went to consumer startups. That's less than half the share from 2019 (14.3%).But I think consumer is actually a great place to be building and investing. Whenever something is out of favor, that's a sign it's probably a good place to spend time: this is an industry built on being contrarian, not built on following the herd. We're entering a compelling few years for consumer entrepreneurship.First, I'd argue that consumer is too narrowly defined. When people think consumer, they often think consumer social (a tough category) or consumer brands (a tough fit for venture compared to internet and software businesses, with typically lower return profiles). But consumer is broader. Consumer encompasses businesses that sell to consumers and those that rely on consumer spending. This means the obvious names—apps on our phones like Uber, Instacart, Spotify—and the enablers: Shopify, for instance, powers online retail; Faire powers offline retail; Unity powers game development. Each of the latter three is B2B2C, in its own way, but I would categorize each is also a consumer technology business.The wins in consumer can be massive. The biggest technology businesses in history began as consumer businesses—Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon. The original companies comprising FAANG—with Microsoft conspicuously absent—were allconsumer.And some of the best returns of the last five years have stemmed from consumer tech IPOs. At Daybreak, we invest ~$1M at Pre-Seed and Seed. Here's how much a $1M investment in the Seed round of five recent consumer IPOs would yield:Big consumer wins compare favorably to big enterprise wins—relative to Snowflake's market cap, Uber is ~3x in size, Airbnb is ~2x in size, and DoorDash is roughly equal. (Snowflake is the biggest enterprise IPO of the last decade.) The last few years produced a windfall of consumer outcomes, yet investors today almost write off the category.At Daybreak, we don't focus exclusively on consumer; my view is that you need to balance more binary consumer outcomes with B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces. But we do approach investing through the lens of the consumer—how people make decisions. The buyers of products like Figma and Ramp, after all, are people, and software companies are increasingly selling bottom-up into organizations. The line between consumer and enterprise has been blurring for years.This week's Digital Native makes the argument that consumer tech is a compelling place to build and invest. We'll look at the data to back up this argument, then delve into three categories of consumer that I'm particularly interested in right now:* Checking in on Consumer Spend* Consumer Tech: The Data Doesn't Lie* What to Watch: AI Applications* What to Watch: Shopping* What to Watch: Consumer Health* Rule of Thumb: Follow the SpendThis week we'll cover #1-3, and next week in Part II we'll tackle #4-6.Let's dive in

Abigail Washburn & Wu Fei (Yale Schwarzman Center on March 2, 2024) by WNHH Community Radio

This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser chats with Matías Tarnopolsky, the orchestra's president and chief executive; Alison Friedman, executive and creative director of Carolina Performing Arts; and virtuoso guzheng player and composer Wu Fei about the legacy of the Philadelphia Orchestra's China tour, their continuing connection with China, and their concert performances in Chapel Hill, performed to the day on the two closing nights of that historic tour 50 years ago.07:00 – The China connection in the overall identity of the Philadelphia Orchestra11:32 – 缘分 [yuánfèn] and the serendipity of the commemorative concert in Chapel Hill14:19 – What can we learn from the original Philadelphia Orchestra members?19:49 – Has the interest in the China-U.S. culture exchange started to fall off in recent years?25:04 – Music as the common ground in the light of worsening relations with China28:02 – “What's the orchestra of today?” - as the leading theme for the commemorative concert 31:10 – The significance of Beethoven's Symphony No.6 to the orchestra's history in China33:41 – The inspiration for Hello Gold Mountain and its connection to the Jewish history in China A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com.Recommendations:Matias: Soave sia il vento (the trio from Mozart's opera Così fan tutte)Alison: Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics (podcast)Shanir Blumenkranz's musicFei: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (avant-garde metal band)Kaiser: Good Harvest 大丰收 (restaurant) Matteo Mancuso (Sicilian guitar virtuoso)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode, Ryan returns to join Dennis, Ed, Kate, Garrett, & Karen to discuss the next Gundam Wing batch of episodes, 31 through 35. Zechs once again dons the mask, Pagan shows how tough he is, it's harder to craft peace than Relena thinks, the good guys wear white, fencing revisited, high on the Zero System, and Peacemillion is a silly name. 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:02:38 - The Watchlist 0:17:37 - Some Anime News 0:33:30 - Others' Impressions of Dorothy 0:42:43 - E31 - The Glass Kingdom 1:06:11 - E32 - The God of Death Meets Zero 1:21:23 - E33 - The Lonely Battlefield 1:46:59 - E34 - And Its Name is Epyon 2:01:09 - E35 - The Return of Wufei 2:26:51 - Voices & Kanpai Special thanks to Ryan (@LightsGameraAxn / @lightsgameraaction) for once again joining us! Support the show by either donating to our Ko-Fi link below, or by purchasing a copy of Gundam Wing Part 2 on Blu-ray through our Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/42JHHDm Dennis: @ichnob | Ed: @ippennokuinashi | Garrett: @blkriku | Karen: @RyaCosplay | Kate: @TaikoChan Website | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | RSS | Ko-Fi

Support from TRILLOQUY comes from Salastina: https://www.salastina.org/INTRODUCTION (00:00): “Forget” by Pogo (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QRMwa7WVb3k); “The Diva” from ‘The Fifth Element' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTE2h0ZY74); MOVEMENT ONE (18:10): A Fresh Approach to Classical Music Engages Live Audiences (https://www.seattletimes.com/sponsored/a-fresh-approach-to-classical-music-engages-live-audiences/); “Hello Gold Mountain” by Wu Fei, perf. Lehigh University Philharmonic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVO62cgC10Q); The Jerusalem Quartet Believes in the Power of the Standard Repertoire (https://cso.org/experience/article/13216/the-jerusalem-quartet-believes-in-the-power-o?fbclid=IwAR2vOD3brb5R3CODH8T-S8Hz50EGOhCih_NNEdiIFwPpi0jVvl3wNYLl6PQ); String Quartet No. 4, mov. V, arr. Cristián Tamblay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ygszrm1vI); MOVEMENT TWO (46:10): “Prickly Pear” by Portico Quartet (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sNmWCHoWGZk); Concerto for Two Guitars by Paulo Bellinati, perf. Brasil Guitar Duo with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0-6KjHo9QA); MOVEMENT THREE (58:10): Garrett Interviews Terence Blanchard (https://www.metopera.org/season/2022-23-season/champion/); “Going to Mecca” by Terence Blanchard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDt5_aKFJdM); “Fight Scene” from ‘Champion' by Terence Blanchard, perf. Opera Parallèle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G553VZIpqeI) THE TRILLOQUY (01:33:40): The Mestizo Waltz by Gabriela Lena Frank, perf. Utah Symphony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbxmWy7rjI4); “A Tale of Two Sudden Cable News Exits” (https://time.com/6274088/tucker-carlson-don-lemon-firing/) ★ Support this podcast ★

The journey through Gundam Wing continues! Branson and John have both come to strong opinions about Wufei... very strong opinions... Dallas and Damara are just along for the ride this time.... Gundam Watch Theme song produced and used with permission by John Harju: https://linktr.ee/johnharju Gundam Watch Theme song Lyrics done by AC Peckham: https://www.facebook.com/A.C.Peckham Do you have some Gundam recommendations that would make for great quick bonus episodes? Reach out to us! Check out the Gundam Watch YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegundamwatch Follow The Gundam Watch On Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Gundam-Watch-102899075812064  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegundamwatch/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegundamwatch  Join the Geek Devotions Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/ZwWgzqKzwm The Gundam Watch is part of the Geek Devotions Podcast Network. For More info about the network and all things Geek Devotions visit https://geekdevotions.com/geek-devotions-podcast-network/  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegundamwatch/message

On this episode, join Dennis, Ed, Kate, Garret, and Karen as they are joined by a very special returning guest: AnimeChicago founder and Bebop Beat co-host Jamie! It's the third of 10 Gundam Wing podcasts for this miniseries, covering episodes 11-15. Listen in as they discuss the Heero Yuy Apology Tour 195, Wufei doing Wufei things, hearing the dub voices for Duo and Quatre not playing Duo and Quatre, and the women's role so far in the series. 0:00:00 - Introduction & Catching up with Jamie  0:04:33 - The Watchlist 0:22:25 - Some Anime Related News 0:35:31 - Jamie's Gundam Wing Origin 0:49:23 - Ep 11 - The Whereabouts of Happiness 1:15:01 - Ep 12 - Bewildered Warriors 1:32:07 - Ep 13 - Catherine's Tears 2:00:35 - Ep 14 - The Order to Destroy 01 2:22:11 - Ep 15 - To the Battleground, Antarctica 2:48:10 - Voices, Volume 3 Thoughts, and Kanpai Many thanks to Jamie (@spacedragon) for joining us this episode! Check out AnimeChicago for Midwest anime social activities and Bit Bash Games Festival in April later this year. Support the show by either donating to our Ko-Fi link below, or by purchasing a copy of Gundam Wing Part 1 on Blu-ray through our Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3WDpkvV Dennis: @ichnob | Ed: @ippennokuinashi | Garrett: @blkriku | Karen: @RyaCosplay | Kate: @TaikoChan  Website | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | RSS | Ko-Fi

CW: Death, child soldiers, overly violent deaths Autumn and Alis continue with Gundam Wing, episode 4-6 where Wufei kills a lot of people, Heero is a smary bastard and a lot of people want to make out with a lot of other people. Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arp1033/message

Spiraling down the SEED Destiny path, the boys find themselves wanting to know how and why the series chose to progress the way it did. The question remains: is Shin as bad as Wufei?

Back from our unplanned hiatus, it's Untitled Tallgeese Podcast! Today on Gundams of Our Lives: The Wind Beneath Our Wings, we visit Space China, home of Wufei, and our hosts get into what, exactly, is going on with Chineseness in Space China. Did you know there's an alternative universe where Wufei is from Africa? But in this universe, Gundam Wing's main African representation is… the circus lion, because that's right, we're back in the circus, which is now in space. That's the real reason we went on hiatus: faced with the prospect of releasing another episode about a Gundam circus, now forced to discuss the mechanics of launching an elephant into space, we podcasters could no longer take the indignity. We are on strike until Sunrise takes away our bread and circuses. Nonetheless, we push through to talk about the fandom artifact: the Gundam Wing cassette dramas! For those of us who need Duo to give us a wake-up call in the morning.

Treize versus Wu Fei! Quatre versus Dorothy! It's the back-to-back brawls that this series has been building to all along, apparently! Meanwhile, Duo smuggles the Weirdos to the location of their heroic atonement, and Heero finally, at long last, tries a little tenderness with Relena before speeding off for the ultimate(?) showdown with Zechs. Will a new world emerge from the ashes of all this conflict and monologuing? Is “Takeoff into Confusion” RAD… or is it BAD?

Lady Une returns, significantly less dead than was expected but significantly more comatose than one would hope. Treize explains to her that he only took over for Relena because the Blessed Burrito Queen was unprepared to do gangster stuff. Wufei plugs his brain into the Zero system and it tells him to rejoin the main plot. Relena's Frontier Airlines flight to space might have many stops, but there's no stopping space justice! Is “Battleship Libra” RAD… or is it BAD?

We conclude our journey through the animated After Colony timeline with a review of Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz!  One year after the TV series, some guy we've never heard of named Dekim Barton comes out of nowhere hell-bent on ruining Christmas with his army of bellhops, squad of boy scouts, and a legion of Diet-Coke Heavyarms.  Shockingly, the Preventers fail to prevent Barton's machinations after the world disarms and the Gundam boys send their Gundams into the sun (except Wu-Fei who kept Gundam Naruto).  Can the boys get their Gundams back in time to stop Barton and save Christmas?  Join us aboard Dorothy's bus line and watch Relena hit Mariemaia Khushrenada (allegedly) with some cold, hard total pacifism!   Merry Christmas Eve, listeners!

Zechs and Heero meet again amid the ruins of the Sanc Kingdom. With their homicidal suits at the helm and no bad guys around to fight, they do the only logical thing: Fight each other! With a PR victory in hand, a surprisingly effective Duke Dermail tempts Relena with power and a brand new title. Tsuborov and a bunch of random colonists become casualties of Wu Fei's quest to define integrity, and yet another ragtag band of space revolutionaries appears on the board. Oh great! Another faction with dubious intent! Just what this story needed! Is “Zero vs. Epyon” RAD... or is it BAD?

Wufei punches his way back into the narrative with a late-model gundam and a mission to define the word “integrity,” eventually stumbling into conflict with Zechs. A traumatized Trowa has forgotten who he is but remembers his passion for the circus arts. Quatre crashes an antique fighter jet and just sort of wanders around in the desert for a while. It's a lot, but is it enough to aid the Secret Court in their judicial mission? Is “Return of Wufei” RAD… or is it BAD?

We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He's followed what many experience as this quintessential American roots instrument back to its roots in Africa, and he's taken it where no banjo has gone before. Abigail Washburn is a celebrated banjo player and singer, both in English and Chinese. These two are partners in music and in life — recovering something ancient and deeply American all at once, bringing both beauty and refreshment to what they play and how they live.Béla Fleck has recorded over 40 albums, most famously with The Flecktones and New Grass Revival. His albums include Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, UFO Tofu, and Rocket Science. He has released two full album collaborations with Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn and Echo in the Valley. In 2020, he released Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions. His latest album is, My Bluegrass Heart. Abigail Washburn is a clawhammer banjo player and singer. Her solo albums include Song of the Traveling Daughter and City of Refuge. Her newest album is Wu Fei And Abigail Washburn, a collaboration with her longtime friend, the renowned guzheng player Wu Fei. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn — Truth, Beauty, Banjo." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He's followed what many experience as this quintessential American roots instrument back to its roots in Africa, and he's taken it where no banjo has gone before. Abigail Washburn is a celebrated banjo player and singer, both in English and Chinese. These two are partners in music and in life — recovering something ancient and deeply American all at once, bringing both beauty and refreshment to what they play and how they live.Béla Fleck has recorded over 40 albums, most famously with The Flecktones and New Grass Revival. His albums include Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, UFO Tofu, and Rocket Science. He has released two full album collaborations with Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn and Echo in the Valley. In 2020, he released Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions. His latest album is, My Bluegrass Heart. Abigail Washburn is a clawhammer banjo player and singer. Her solo albums include Song of the Traveling Daughter and City of Refuge. Her newest album is Wu Fei And Abigail Washburn, a collaboration with her longtime friend, the renowned guzheng player Wu Fei. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in June 2015.

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn share music from their eponymous collaborative album, demonstrate the banjo and the guzheng, and talk with journalist Jeremy Goldkorn about the joys of weaving together two seemingly different musical traditions.Resources:More about Wu FeiMore about Abigail WashburnMore about their albumWu Fei and Abigail Washburn Spotify Playlist

Duo throws a duffel bag at a stranger's face after she harasses him at an airport. The stranger then abandons her oaths, sacrifices her career and possibly her life to make sure Duo gets to attack a high-security OZ facility and presumably kill everyone inside it. Such is the charisma of the god of death, which Duo isn't, but apparently once was and might possibly be again someday if he can get out of pilot jail with Heero and Wu Fei. Also, Zechs attends a meeting. Is “Duo, the God of Death Once Again” RAD… or is it BAD?

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's—Quatre in Wing Zero threatening to blow up a colony! Trowa might be horrified, but we're delighted, by the artistic flair and horror movie vibes on display anyway. Caitlin reveals that she's been moonlighting as the strategist for all the Gundam pilots; too bad no one has been getting her transmissions from the Lunar Base—except for Duo, who gives us all the fanservice we could possibly ask for in these last two episodes, from getting beat up to giving moving political speeches to finally getting his government assigned female love interest in Hilde. We recount in detail how Wufei definitely kissed Duo to shut him up and save oxygen, contemplate how Oz predates fake news, tear out our hair over Heero's deadpan sense of humor, and get into our very millennial concerns of burnout and being told to die for your job, because space terrorist is a profession and this is definitely not projection, okay? Lastly, our fandom artifact is something near and dear to the hearts of all Toonami fans: the trailer for Gundam Wing's debut on American airwaves and the promo video "Space is the Place."

Patrick and Bob compare and contrast episode 42 of Gundam Wing and G Gundam to learn what works and does not about each of them.  This get hot when Patrick and Bob argue about the nature of world-saving and justice. Lev tries his best to stay out of it by streaming Netflix. What's he binging this week? Find out on this week's episode of Zaku Talk! E-mail the host as zakutalkcast@gmail.com Hopefully you can find this Trigun D20 BESM expansion book somewhere: https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=3670 Yugioh cards available at: everywhere?   Opening song - Erupting Burning Finger by Kohei Tanaka Ending song - Rhythm Emotion by Two-Mix Artwork by Kiley Mantis zaku, talk, gundam, skeyhill, quixotic, wing, g, skerry, rhythm, emotion, erupting, burning, finger, forty, two, 42

Zechs returns home with Tallgeese, a wildly powerful proto-gundam with a troubling record of injuring its pilots! Duo returns to the hard court with Heero, a wildly dunktastic power forward with a troubling history of killing the occasional classmate! But even mopey Wu Fei and stalkin’-ass Relena can’t deter the court from diving headlong into judicial truth. Is “Portrait of a Ruined Country” RAD... or is it BAD?

The wings of the tall-goose continue to flap as we brave episodes 21 and 22 of Gundam Wing. Today, we learn that Quatre has sisters—uncountable, unknowable sisters! Doctor Sisters, Lawyer Sisters, Never-Met-The-Boy-Before Sisters! Sisters sprouting from the soil, sisters flowing from the sea, sisters bursting in the air— oh, wait, sorry, that was his dad. We discuss our plans to eat the rich, represented by Quatre's dad—but do we want to eat the rich politically or eat the rich erotically? Quatre's battle with his father goes full Freud when we notice a central feature of Papa Space Baron's appearance. We discuss the philosophy of colony life as narrated by Septum's (do you remember Septum?) dad and his son [threatening voice] Gwinter. Then we break last episode's ban on discussing Lady Une because, surprise surprise, she has once again misunderstood Treize's religion (which is himself, but not in the way she thought). Wufei is also around doing things because of things. I support him! You go, Wufei! Both episodes end with mad cackling. For our fandom artifact, Caitlin took a field trip to a Gundam Wing collaboration event at cat-themed arcade/amusement park Namjatown and learned her love fortune.

On this episode the boys are joined, once again, by the legendary GundamTipico (@GundamTipico on Instagram) to rant and rave about Gundam Wing. Does Jose still hate Wufei? Why was TrowaxHeero Tipico's favorite part? How does Ben Quadrinaros factor into the discussion?

Today we follow the lives and loves of average young adults on a college campus through Gundam Wing episodes 19 and 20: Zechs Merquise has graduated from Earth High School and plans to shed his emo mask boy image with a total reinvention when he starts at Space University. He studies Mobile Suits in Classical Japanese Literature with eccentric Prof. Howard. Professor Lady Une (do NOT call her “Lady” or, worse, “Mrs. Une”) is offering her famous course on Military Propaganda this semester and everyone at S.U. is enrolled. For her advanced students, she is also teaching a seminar on The Psychology of Fascism, but her senior pet Nichol is beginning to notice that some days she's her usual hard-ass self and sometimes she's like “Oh, I'll give you an A+ just because you tried.” Wufei, however, was earning every bit of his A+ on the “Attacking Barge” assignment, before crashing and burning on the final. Meanwhile, Duo is struggling at S.U. because he's so good-looking no one takes him seriously; everyone treats him like a dumb baka! He can't enroll in Public Executions 101 and they made him take The Aesthetics of Getting Your Ass Beat twice! His casual hook-up Heero is excelling in The Biology of Machines and spending a lot of time with Trowa, the T.A. for Prof. Mercurius's Chinese Literature Through Idioms course. In Advanced Fandom Artifact Archaeology, we dust off Super Robot Wars and other Gundam games to problematize the question of “Who would smash who?” versus “Who would smooch who?” Surprise, we don't actually answer anything—that's academics for you! Bam!

Just because you can't travel in the pandemic doesn't mean you can't visit ARAB WORLD and CHINA WORLD with Cathy, Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and the cast of Gundam Wing! We had too much fun last episode talking about shipping and sex, so naturally this episode is absolutely no fun at all as we delve into colonialism and nationalism as it applies to Sichu—sorry, the Autonomous Mountain Region of China, whether shipping Wufei and Sally is weird psychosexual incest, Trowa's teenage terrorist trauma, and just how incredibly hot Noin is when she pulls up in a motorcycle to save Relena from dying while in her best Revolutionary Girl Utena cosplay. Whoops, I guess that part about having no fun at all was a lie. This episode's fandom artifact is the state of fan internet and webrings circa early 2000s, including the Society for the Defense of Duo's Intelligence.

This week on Inside Appalachia, we're revisiting a show that originally aired last fall, that prominently features bold mountain women who are making a difference in their communities. We hear what happens when Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei combine Appalachian and Chinese folk music. We also meet the driving force behind a family-owned Black newspaper that's been publishing since 1939. Claudia Whitworth began working there for her father in 1945, and three quarters of a century later still takes an active role as publisher of the Roanoke Tribune. And we'll meet Rosemary Ketchum, a community activist who ran for city council in Wheeling, West Virginia. We'll learn how she became West Virginia's first transgender person to be elected to public office.  Appalachia And China Can you blend Appalachian and Chinese folk music successfully? Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei spoke with Lizzie Peabody, host of the Smithsonian Institution's podcast Sidedoor, about how they combined their two instruments — the banjo and the guzheng — to produce a sound that's both timeless and also reflects thousands of years of history from different parts of the world. Rosemary When Rosemary Ketchum moves to Wheeling, West Virginia as a child, she remembers being struck by it's moniker, "The Friendly City." She saw residents struggling with food security and homelessness and decided to help. Her journey continued when she ran fo the Wheeling City Council, becoming the first transgender person in the state to be elected to office. West Virginia Public Broadcasting Producers Corey Knollinger and Chuck Kleine followed Ketchum to produce a film about her year-long campaign. Check out the half-hour documentary here. Roanoke Tribune Claudia Whitworth has led the Roanoke Tribune, a family-owned, African American newspaper, through segregation, the destruction of its building during urban renewal, and now the pandemic and death of print newspapers.  Yet Whitworth, now in her 90s, has never relented in the weekly newspaper's mission, which appears in its masthead: “Making and Recording Black History since 1939!” Whitworth told Inside Appalachia co-host Mason Adams that she believes her newspaper's secret for success lies in her devotion to telling real stories from her community. Years back, at a gathering of Black publishers from across the country, Whitworth pushed back when a fellow publisher declared that “good news doesn't sell.” After more than eight decades — and more than 75 years since she went to work there — her paper is still going strong. Adams had this to say about fierce women of Appalachia: “Growing up in the mountains, I saw fierce women everywhere I looked. From my great aunt Willie Sue, who served as a medic in World War II, to Ms. McGuire at Sharon Elementary School, who drilled a generation of Allegheny County kids in history and politics. They all show us that we don't have to be mean or ornery to be fiercer. We can be kind, and listen to others, and reflect back what we see and hear. These women are making a stand for what they believe in — a long and rich tradition here, inside Appalachia.”

OZ begins to conquer Alliance-held countries on today's episodes of Gundam Wing, leading Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy to ask the hard-hitting questions: Are Trieze and Zechs having sex? If so, how serious are they? We discuss Zechs's devoted underlings, including poor Otto who dies in the unstable Tallgeese—is that why we named our podcast after it?! Duo and Heero briefly star in a sports anime, The Basketball That Heeroko Plays, and we relaunch our campaign to make sure Wufei gets shipped with everyone, starting with a romantic coffee date with Trowa. Then the three podcast Sort-of-Catherines reckon with the show's Catherine as an uncanny shadow form of ourselves. Finally, we all come to understand the true heart of OZ thanks to… the black plague? Sorry, Lady Une, read up on feudalism next time. For our fandom artifact, we relive the melodious prose of Animerica magazine c. April 2000 and discover a quote that unlocks all the secrets of Gundam Wing's gender relations. For listeners who want to follow along, most of the Animerica Gundam Wing issue is available online at https://www.animenostalgiabomb.com/mobile-suit-gundam-wing-castle-of-cagliostro-trigun-animerica-april-2000/, thanks to Anime Nostalgia Bomb.

Pacifism is, like, so last episode of Gundam Wing as Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy make like Heero and carve up a plane full of well-meaning but nonsensical plot points. Join us as we fail to explain why Wufei and Treize can communicate seemingly through foghorns and crossed swords, if Treize is sexist, classist, or both (definitely both), where Zechs got that beautiful engraved ivory pistol, and how to wake you or your local Gundam pilot from a failure coma. And in our fandom artifact section, Caitlin shares some stories from the all-seme Duo-focused doujinshi collection "Phallus Sex Symbol." We may not know what the Soul of OZ is, but we definitely know that seme Duo tops Rashid and is taller than any man in the world. (Cathy is sorry for her audio in the first ten minutes and promises to stop broadcasting from a mobile suit at the bottom of the ocean.)

While Lady Une looks for rose oil for Treize's bubble bath in the mock Parthenon, Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy discuss episodes 3 and 4 of Gundam Wing, which turn out to be foundational texts for the most popular fandom (and merchandise!) pairings. We marvel at Quatre and Trowa's gay senpai status, try to matchmake Wufei as the odd-numbered pilot out, discuss the three anime life stages (15, 25, and dead), debate coded lesbians and whether Noin is a victim of compulsive heterosexuality, and spend some time with That Evil Knievel Dub Line and dub vs sub voices more generally. Our fandom artifact for this episode is the short fic "Good Morning, Walker" by Alexe Cinz, a tribute to the OZ officer who introduces Zechs to Tallgeese before promptly disappearing from the series forever. You can find the fic on Alexe Cinz's archived fansite Mission Acknowledged.

This week’s episode of Inside Appalachia is about fierce women — something we have no shortage of here in Appalachia.We’ll hear about the folk music collaboration between Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn. Their new album combines the tones of Appalachia with the melodies of China. We’ll also hear a story about the first transgender person elected to political office in West Virginia, and a 90-year-old newspaper publisher who is still hard at work each week.

Cool space battles abound on this week's GW episodes, but can they save us from having to talk about Wu Fei's personal interactions? Nope! Gundam Wing discussion starts at 22:28. Tweet @MechinationsPod or write to us MechinationsPod@gmail.com Thanks to @fretzl for our intro/outro music. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mechinations/support

Gundam Wing loves it Winners and losers, but is much less interested in collective action against an oppressive force. pmc, Ignis, and Stephen discussing the ongoing problem of Wu Fei, the concerning presentation of White Fang, and the good boy Quatre. GW discussion begins at 34:54 Intro/outro music by @fretzl Tweet @MechinationsPod or write to us MechinationsPod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mechinations/support

When Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei first jammed together, “it was magic.” Fei was shocked to meet an American banjo player so curious about China’s culture; and Abigail Washburn met a classically trained composer whose talents on the guzheng, a 2500 year old 21-string Chinese harp, perfectly complimented her banjo pickin’. Today, they collaborate to make a new brand of folk music: one that combines the tones of Appalachia with the melodies of China.

When Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei first jammed together, “it was magic.” Fei was shocked to meet an American banjo player so curious about China’s culture; and Abigail Washburn met a classically trained composer whose talents on the guzheng, a 2500 year old 21-string Chinese harp, perfectly complimented her banjo pickin’. Today, they collaborate to make a new brand of folk music: one that combines the tones of Appalachia with the melodies of China.

Ignis and pmc cover the return of Wu Fei, a character no one asked to return but who will spend the entire series relentlessly returning, rest assured. Even better, Relena's kingdom is Sanc at last, giving Dorothy more opportunities to pop off. Thanks to @fretzl for the intro/outro music. Find us @MechinationsPod or write to us MechinationsPod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mechinations/support

Abigail Washburn is not only one of the country’s premier clawhammer banjo players and folk-music composers, having won a 2016 Grammy for her duo album with her husband, Béla Fleck, and, until COVID-19 hit, having negotiated a busy international touring schedule. She is also an avid cross-cultural communicator and listener who believes in the spiritual power of music to bridge divides. Long an admirer of Chinese arts and culture, she has in recent years collaborated and performed with classically trained composer and Chinese guzheng virtuoso Wu Fei. Together they delight audiences in the States and in China with the often remarkably similar sounds of Appalachian and Chinese folk music and the magic that occurs when both women find inventive ways to meld both instruments and traditions. In April of 2020, they released their first album, simply titled “Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn,” on the Smithsonian Folkways label.   Abigail spoke with Rob Kramer from her home in Nashville after a long day of intense distance learning. Eager to continually improve her command of Mandarin Chinese, she is currently enrolled in an advanced language program at Middlebury College, where she first started learning the language as a teenager during summer intensives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFMF55DEKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmoH9E6KgA

Abigail Washburn is not only one of the country’s premier clawhammer banjo players and folk-music composers, having won a 2016 Grammy for her duo album with her husband, Béla Fleck, and, until COVID-19 hit, having negotiated a busy international touring schedule. She is also an avid cross-cultural communicator and listener who believes in the spiritual power of music to bridge divides. Long an admirer of Chinese arts and culture, she has in recent years collaborated and performed with classically trained composer and Chinese guzheng virtuoso Wu Fei. Together they delight audiences in the States and in China with the often remarkably similar sounds of Appalachian and Chinese folk music and the magic that occurs when both women find inventive ways to meld both instruments and traditions. In April of 2020, they released their first album, simply titled “Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn,” on the Smithsonian Folkways label.   Abigail spoke with Rob Kramer from her home in Nashville after a long day of intense distance learning. Eager to continually improve her command of Mandarin Chinese, she is currently enrolled in an advanced language program at Middlebury College, where she first started learning the language as a teenager during summer intensives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFMF55DEKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmoH9E6KgA

On this episode on Sonosphere Wu Fei tells us about how the global pandemic has affected her as a musician and mother. She has shifted her focus from live shows to releasing new material daily. Fei also released an album with Abigail Washburn during this unsure time.

Presentem dues novetats: el nou disc de TootArd des del Golan amb aires disco-arab 80s i el 20è disc de la formació internacional Zuco103, descobrim un disc de folk preciòs amb Wu Fei i Abigail Washburn al banjo, recomanem anar al festival Say it Loud al novembre tot escoltant James Brown, recordem a Ray Charles i tanquem amb Kendrick Lamar #BlackLivesMatter

Repaso libre a la Transglobal World Music Chart del mes, confeccionada a través de la votación de un panel de divulgadores de las músicas del mundo de todos los continentes, del que los hacedores de Mundofonías somos cocreadores y coimpulsores. Este mes de junio del 2020 el número uno lo ocupa el dúo formado por la artista china Wu Fei y la estadounidense Abigail Washburn. A loose review of the Transglobal World Music Chart for this month, determined by a panel of world music specialists from all the continents of which the Mundofonías‘ presenters are co-creators and co-promoters. This month, June 2020, number one is for the duo dormed by the Chinese artist Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, from the USA. · Luciana Jury - La cuenca de la Juana - Abrazo · Luciana Jury - Si cruzas - Abrazo · Shantel & Cu?mbu?s? Cemaat - Cu?mbu?s? dub - Istanbul · Mélodie Gimard - Zaïda (romance) (+ El Chozas de Jerez) - Numen · Fra Fra - Destiny (Orphans) - Funeral songs · Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström - Erämorsian - Mielo · Al Bilali Soudan - Yermakoi - Tombouctou · Matthieu Saglio - Caravelle - El camino de los vientos · Trio Tekke - Tempest of the dawn - Strovilos · Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn - Four seasons - Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn · (Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn - Pretty bird - Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn) Imagen / Image: Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) 2. Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn : Four Seasons Medley from the CD Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn (Smithsonian Folkways) 3. Najma Akhtar : Death Don't Have No Mercy from the CD Five Rivers (Last Minute Productions) 4. Joan Shelley : Cycle from the DL album Live At The Bomhard (Joan Shelley/ No Quarter) 5. Charlie Dore : Terrible Lie from the CD Like Animals (Black Ink Music) 6. Eliza Carthy & Ben Seal : The Lute Girl from the CD Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known) (Hem Hem) 7. Aynur Doğan : Govend E from the CD Hedûr – Solace Of Time (Dreyer Gaido) 8. Damir Imamovic : Adio Kerida from the CD Singer Of Tales (Wrasse) 9. Trio Tekke : The First Day from the CD Strovilos (Riverboat) 10. Victoria Spivey : Dope Head Blues from the CD Rough Guide To Blues Divas (World Music Network) 11. Charley Patton : Prayer Of Death (Part 1) from the CD Rough Guide To Spiritual Blues (World Music Network) 12. Raphael Callaghan : Poor Me from the CD Blue Lies (Blue Cee) 13. Pete Morton : Immigrant Child from the CD A Golden Thread (Further) 14. Ultan Conlon : Moments In Time from the CD There's A Waltz (Dark Side Out) 15. Sproatly Smith : The Thistle Doll from the DL album A Trip Of Hares (Weirdshire) 16. Elle Osborne : Birds Of The British Isles from the CD If You See A Rook On Its Own, It's A Crow (9th House) 17. Albin Paulus : Weiss Der Geier from the CD Pur (Non Food Factory 18. Tom Kitching : Old Molly Oxford from the CD Seasons Of Change (Talking Cat) 19. Pharis & Jason Romero : Old Chatelaine from the CD Bet On Love (Lula) 20. The Lowest Pair : Cast Away from the CD The Perfect Plan (Delicata/ Thirty Tigers) 21. The Magpies : No More Tears from the CD Tidings (The Magpies) 22. Edikanfo : Daa Daa Edikanfo from the CD The Pace Setters (Glitterbeat) 23. Deep Cabaret : Real Reality from the CD Matchless (Deep Cabaret) 24. Katie Spencer : Incense Skin from the DL album Live At Acoustic Roots (Katie Spencer) 25. Findlay Napier, Gillian Frame & Mike Vass : Mormond Braes from the CD The Ledger (Cheery Groove) 26. The Henrys : Dogwood from the DL album Paydirt (The Henrys) 27. Mike Cooper & Scot Ray : The Dark Side Of Glowing Fish from the DL album Dua Kepala Kelapa (Mike Cooper) 28. Geiger Von Müller : Wings From Angel James from the CD Ruby Red Run (Geiger Von Müller) 29. Varo : Streets Of Forbes from the CD Varo (Varo) 30. Spilar : Germaine from the CD Stormweere (Trad) 31. The Rude Mechanicals : Leeds Polka/ The Redowa from the CD Sergeant Early’s Dream (Rudemex) Podwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud. You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.com Follow the links for previous podcasts.

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn discuss their eponymous debut duo album, celebrating American and Chinese folk music traditions.

This week, we are joined by Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, who recently released a self-titled debut album as a duo. Fei is a composer and a world-renowned player of the guzheng, a string instrument often featured in Chinese folk music. Abigail is a banjo player who has won a Grammy Award for her reinterpretations of traditional Appalachian music. In this episode, Abigail and Fei dive into their creative process behind making music and tell us about the origins of their friendship and newest album.Like the podcasts at SupChina? Help us out by taking this brief survey.

This week, we are joined by Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, who recently released a self-titled debut album as a duo. Fei is a composer and a world-renowned player of the guzheng, a string instrument often featured in Chinese folk music. Abigail is a banjo player who has won a Grammy Award for her reinterpretations of traditional Appalachian music. In this episode, Abigail and Fei dive into their creative process behind making music and tell us about the origins of their friendship and newest album.Like the podcasts at SupChina? Help us out by taking this brief survey.

Liú Déhǎi 刘德海, master of the pipa, a type of Chinese lute, died at the age of 83 on April 11, 2020. Liu was born in Shanghai in 1937. He received his early music education there before the Communist victory in 1949, and went on to become one of the idealistic young musicians who tried to form a specifically Chinese orchestral tradition. He learned a number of traditional instruments but became famous for playing the pipa, as well as for arranging and composing for it. Among many other achievements, he went on to play with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. Liu’s most famous work is “Ambush From All Sides” (十面埋伏 shímiàn máifú), which is featured in this podcast. It’s an ancient tune, but he rearranged it into the intense version you hear on this podcast — perhaps the closest thing to heavy metal that China produced before the 1990s, but played by one man on one acoustic instrument. In this Sinica Podcast Extra, Jeremy talks to classical composer and avant-garde guzheng performer Wu Fei about Liu, his legacy, and the amazing “Ambush From All Sides.” (Full disclosure: Fei is Jeremy’s wife.)You can hear Ambush From All Sides on the podcast itself, but you might also want to look at Liu’s amazing technique in this Youtube video. The painting at Mogao Caves in Dunhuang mentioned in the podcast is Playing the pipa behind the head.Like the podcasts at SupChina? Help us out by taking this brief survey.

On this week's show, veteran reporter Dexter "Tiff" Roberts chats with Kaiser and Jeremy about his new book, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World.6:28: What is the myth of Chinese capitalism?20:17: Chinese migrant workers and their children35:54: Labor conditions in China40:28: Strikes, the CCP, and labor union overhaul45:48: Taobao villages and the transformation of the Chinese countrysideRecommendations:Jeremy: Videos for children in Chinese and English, coupled with improvised music by Wu Fei. Dexter: From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, by Fèi Xiàotōng 费孝通. Kaiser: The first two books in the trilogy by Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.

Toronto singer-songwriter and Unitarian Universalist minster Lynn Harrison joins us on Episode 498 of Folk Roots Radio to chat about her wonderful new album “Something More”. It’s a great interview and really inspiring - you definitely don’t want to miss it. We also continue to celebrate International Women’s Day with more new music from female artists and this time around we feature Lunar Bloom, Kristen Martell, Minuscule, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Della Mae, Rose Cousins, The Haden Triplets and Lynne Hanson. Check out the full playlist on the website: https://folkrootsradio.com/folk-roots-radio-episode-498-feat-lynn-harrison-international-womens-day/

Wu Fei describes herself as an ancient soul trapped in a feisty woman's body. Hailing from Beijing, China, Wu Fei is a multi-talented musician and composer known for playing and improvising on the traditional Chinese guzheng as well as improvisational singing and piano. Fei talks to John about her life as a child prodigy, transitioning from China to the U.S., how both countries have influenced her and her music, and what it was like to hear American music for the first time in her teenage years. She also discusses her critically acclaimed original work "Hello Gold Mountain."   MUSICAL MENTIONS   0:09 World Music Foundation 0:11 John Gardner 0:16 Wu Fei 0:18 Guzheng 0:25 Tone 1:43 Pitch 1:44 Rhythm 4:06 Sanxian 4:08 Fret 4:09 Banjo 4:52 Music Theory 4:55 China Conservatory of Music 5:13 Piano 5:18 Western Classical Music 6:10 Chinese Music 10:44 African Dance 10:46 Indian Dance 13:07 Michael Jackson 13:08 Madonna 13:10 Jazz 13:12 Kitaro 13:13 Taiko Drum 13:14 Koto 13:28 American Music 15:38 John Cage 15:50 Compose 17:20 String Quartet 17:35 Shostakovich 17:36 Brahmes 17:38 Jimmi Hendrix 18:58 Northern Texas Music College 24:46 West-African Drumming and Dance Ensemble 24:48 Northern Indian Raga 24:52 Percussion 24:52 Marching Band 25:53 Mills College 26:02 Improvisation 27:58 Hello Golden Mountain 28:49 Ravi Shankar 30:13 Soloist 32:02 Indian Music 36:56 Chatterbird 38:50 Celine Thackston 39:48 National Symphony 41:36 Oud 41:36 Shanir Blumenkranz 42:25 Mei-Ann-Chen 44:16 Harp 44:25 Keyboard 44:49 Vibrato 48:11 Bach 48:12 Ravel 48:51 Abigail Washburne 49:13 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Welcome to Nostalgia Pilots! This week, Hugh, Jason, Jurd and Spence discuss Gundam Wing Episode 48: Takeoff Into Confusion. In this episode: Treize knows exactly how many people have died for him, Zechs and Peacemillion do not have an understanding, and Trowa needs to keep his mouth shut. Plus, Wu Fei throws away his shot,... Continue Reading →

Being good at something is cool. Greatness seldom occurs. But mastery... most have not experienced it. My friend Wu Fei is a true virtuoso of the Guzheng, an ancient Chinese instrument with 21 strings. Her story of how her mastery was developed, what it was like being raised under the One Child Policy in China, and how hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time as a young adult changed her life is incredible. Fei is an amazing woman and you can learn all about her on the next episode of the #CreativePower Hour.

Hello and Welcome to Radio Meteor, the podcast where I watch an episode of 90’s anime Gundam Wing and ramble about it because it’s 2019 and the kids are fighting for their rights. In this episode, Relena and Wufei are utterly pointless, Une pulls out all the stops, but Noin steals the show with a mic drop. The closing music is 'Last Train to Mars' by Dan Lebowitz and the word of the episode is 'damashii'.

After a completely unknown period of months, the boys reach the halfway mark of season 1 of Gundam Wing. Trowa laughs out loud at Heero's heartfelt jokes, Wufei feigns character development to appease Sally Po, and Zechs almost realizes that war is bad but then throws both time and Noin under the bus. If you go to the circus and see a weapon of war, please don't just stand there. Start of Discussion Timecode- 15:40 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mechinations/support

Hello! And welcome to Radio Meteor, the podcast where I watch an episode of 90’s anime Gundam Wing and ramble about it because some girls on OKcupid get guys who are like ‘hey, you wanna see the Gundam model I just built’ and it’s very sweet and they get married, but not me. This week we get down and serious with the concept of the noble sacrifice (TW: Suicide); Wufei and Trowa practice good etiquette and learn that Zech's dad apparently knew he was a piece of work right from a child. Word of the episode is: 'xiexie'

Hello and welcome to Radio Meteor, the podcast where I watch an episode of 90’s anime Gundam Wing and ramble about it because I just have so many emotions about space. This week, we discuss how manly Quatre is, how completely gauche Wufei is, and I get unexpectedly enthusiastic about Septem. God help my soul. Word of the episode is 'kisama'.

Welcome to Radio Meteor, the podcast where I watch an episode of 90’s anime Gundam Wing and ramble about it because the smaller the fandom the nicer the people and this one’s for you. :) This week, we discuss why Wufei is such a butt, the Zech-Char parallel and how many memes you can harvest from one single episode. Word of the episode is 'amai'.

This week on the Sinica Podcast, we’re live from the US-China Business Council’s Forecast 2019 Conference in Washington, D.C. This show was recorded on January 31 — the day (and hour) that Donald Trump met with China’s top official in charge of trade negotiations, Liu He. Kaiser and Jeremy spoke with Tim Stratford, the chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in the People's Republic of China, and with Craig Allen, the president of the US-China Business Council. Stratford has also headed the leading law firm Covington’s office in China for many years, while Allen has had a long career representing American economic interests at the Department of Commerce and in the State Department, most recently as the U.S. ambassador to Brunei. The wide-ranging conversation covers everything from technology policies to the structural changes that China is being asked to make to address U.S. complaints over unfair trade practices. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: “If you want a quiet life, don’t study China.” —Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, per Craig Allen 5:22: Tim offers an analogy to describe the U.S.-China competitive relationship: a football match with one side playing American style, the other playing English style. “So, think of a Chinese SOE as an American-style football player that’s protected — it can receive subsidies and it can receive other protections from the state and it’s competing against, say, an American company that’s out there to play English-style football — and you can see how there could be an injury.” 15:14: The foreign business community, previously a reliable ballast in the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and China, has soured in recent years. According to Tim, results in the annual Business Climate Review conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China were shocking, with 75 to 80 percent of its membership saying they feel less welcome than in the past. He explains: “There’s a credibility gap that still needs to be addressed, and I also think that a lot of things that have been offered up by the government have not really addressed the core structural issues we’ve been addressing.” 24:48: Is the Trump administration committed to technological decoupling? Craig notes: “There is a sense that seems to be shared between national security elites both in Beijing and in Washington — that both countries are too interdependent from a supply chain and technological perspective… It is clear that a lot of new thought is going into our export control plans and to our investment regimes, and it is very likely that the tightening up of both of those programs are going to have an effect on supply chains and innovation.” 30:48: To finish the live show, Tim and Craig do a bit of forecasting for the new year. Tim contends, “It’s going to take a little bit longer than just one year. I think it’s going to take three, four, or five years, even.” Craig emphasizes the relative health of the U.S. and Chinese economies, stating, “My hope is that both governments will both congeal around the rules that both have formally agreed to under the WTO and find common ground in the technology, trade, and investment space.” Recommendations: Jeremy: Civics study materials for the United States naturalization test, and Hello Gold Mountain, an original composition by Wu Fei for chamber orchestra, which tells the story of Jews who fled Europe for Shanghai after World War II. Craig: Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, by Francis Fukuyama. Tim: “Building a better deal with China,” by Scott Kennedy and Daniel H. Rosen. Kaiser: The Water Margin Podcast: Outlaws of the Marsh, by John Zhu, a retelling of one of the four classic Chinese novels in English.

After a longer than intended hiatus, we're finally back! For once, the delay lays squarely on Brendan's shoulders, as the podcast was recorded a bit before Halloween and alas, it is now a bit after Thanksgiving. The good news is that our very special season finale for episode 13 is already recorded and should be released before the end of the year.But let's not get ahead of ourselves! Enjoy our discussion of this Wufei-packed episode 12, Bewildered Warriors.

Brendan divulges his High School lunch habits. Warren attempts to self-analyze and fails. A lengthy debate of French Fry genres ensues. Oh, and we also discuss Gundam Wing Episode 09 - Portrait of a Ruined Country. We learn that the Tallgeese has the ability to Falcon Punch an entire base. Papa Peacecraft had a truly epic beard. Relena is on the rebound… and speaking of rebounds, who’s ready for some Basketball!? Heero & Duo take center court this time. We do check in with Trowa, Quatre and Wufei, who are pouty and petulant. HOWEVER, Quatre appears long enough to give us our episode’s title. SPOILER ALERT - this episode prominently features the death of a significant character… we strongly recommend not listening, ever. [Editor's note: some, if not all of what's described above may have been cut for time]

Brendan reads between the lines. Warren loses patience with Zechs. She’s a woman all right - She’s Lucrezia Noin! She’s training troops and dishing Military Strategy but Wufei… is, well… less than impressed. Video-chatting, double-parking, being on call and hanging out in a crummy nightclub - welcome to Gundam Wing. If you always wondered what would happen if you fired a space laser in not-space, this episode is a must.

Gyan Riley is an absolute virtuoso of the nylon string guitar, an extraordinary musician who plays with great detail and elegance. Originally from California, he has been based in Brooklyn for the past several years. He has worked closely with John Zorn, Secret Chiefs 3, Timba Harris, Wu Fei and has a long standing duo project with his father, composer Terry Riley. Gyan is the real deal and a joy to talk to. Dig. 

In this special, bonus episode of Sonosphere, we present An Evening with Wu Fei in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. This is Fei's live performance at the Crosstown Arts gallery on Cleveland Street in Memphis, TN on June 30, 2017. The intimate space lent itself to an interactive performance between the audience and Wu Fei, as she showcases what the guzheng can do through its thousand-year history. Wu Fei is a composer and guzheng player. She is a native of Beijing and a current Nashville resident. She is a master of the guzheng, the ancient 21-string Chinese zither. At this performance Fei told stories of her upbringing in Beijing, her relentless practice with the guzheng and how she found improv at Mills College and through her time in New York's improv scene. She mixes her Western and Chinese traditional sensibilities with a contemporary, experimental dialect that only Fei can convey in her "down-to-earth," personable way. We thank her and Crosstown Arts for an amazing show!

This episode of Sonosphere takes a look at the life and work of composer Pauline Oliveros through the eyes and ears of those who worked with her and learned from her. We spoke with Claire Chase, Wu Fei, Monique Buzzarte, Tara Rodgers, and Kerry O'Brien about how Pauline touched their lives personally and professionally, and how her legacy shaped the musical world of today.    Join us.   Tracks in this episode: Mnemonics IV - Pauline Oliveros Ocean State - Tara Rodgers A Bubble in My Eye - Monique Buzzarte Dawn - Wu Fei b_second - Deep Listening Band Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros Nike - Deep Listening Band d_forth - Deep Listening Band Tribute to Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditations - Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre ICE Performs Pauline Oliveros "Concerto for Bass Drum" ICE Performs Pauline Oliveros "Double X"

Sonosphere goes to Knoxville's Big Ears Fest. Today you'll hear our experience at one of the most anticipated cultural events in the world. We’ll hear from composers Anna Meredith, Colleen, Wu Fei, Frode Haltli, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, and Andy Bliss & Kerry O’Brien of Neif Norf about their performance and experience at Big Ears.

Marvel Comics Assistant Editor and co-host of the Xena Warrior Business podcast Allison Stock is here to discuss formative anime and the Matrix. Along the way, we discuss deep Canadian content, lasting relationships built in online fan communities, and how even now, after all this time, nobody, and I mean nobody, likes Wufei. Signature Cocktail: the Whiskey Trench While it's not as sweet as sugar pie, c'est un peu du Quebec, tabernac. 2oz Canadian rye whiskey 1oz port 1 shake Angostura bitters 1 teaspoon maple syrup a maraschino cherry, for garnish Combine all ingredients in a jug with ice and stir to combine. Strain into a pre-chilled champagne coupe. Garnish with a cherry. Follow Allison on Twitter at @allystawk, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to themathofyou@gmail.com. If you like the music on the show, go to bit.ly/TheMathOfYou See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wu Fei is a classically trained composer and performer of the guzheng, or traditional Chinese 21-string zither. Abigail Washburn is a Grammy Award–winning American banjo player and fluent speaker of Chinese. They’ve been friends for a decade and are now recording an album together. They sat down with Jeremy and Kaiser to talk about their paths to becoming musicians, and how their new work is melding Chinese and American folk music. We’re excited to include in this podcast a number of songs by the duo that have not yet been released elsewhere. We hope you enjoy this special episode of Sinica. Please see the Sinica backgrounder for links to articles and videos about the two musicians. Recommendations Wu Fei: Gabriel Prokofiev Abigail: Lau, Juno by Béla Fleck Jeremy: Franco and TPOK Jazz, The Wu-Force Kaiser: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 

Guzheng master Wu Fei plays live in the studio and discusses taking traditional music in new directions. She will perform at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville in 2017.

Adam Segal is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, The Hacked World Order, provides an in-depth exploration of the issues that most states and large companies now confront in cyberspace. It covers everything from the Twitter wars over Gaza to German reactions to the Snowden leaks. Our conversation focuses on how China sees cyberwarfare, cyberespionage, internet security and sovereignty, and how the nation's perspectives differ from America's. Adam presents a sometimes unsettling but sober and balanced analysis of Chinese and American approaches to attacking, defending and spying in digital realms. He defines a moment he calls “Year Zero” of the hacked world order, a period from mid-2012 to mid-2013 that saw cyberspace abandon its utopian tendencies and transform into a full-on battlefield. Our conversation also covers specific incidents, such as the U.S. Department of Justice's espionage charges against five Chinese hackers and the Chinese infiltration of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's database, as well as the capabilities and ethical concerns of China, the United States and other nations. Recommendations: Jeremy: My wife Wu Fei’s improvisation music videos: Facebook.com/RealWufeiMusic, YouTube.com/WuFeiMusic or Twitter.com/WuFei Adam: The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade Kaiser: Dan Carlin’s Common Sense podcast Kaiser and Jeremy: Steve Orlins, the president of the National Committee on U.S.–China Relations who recently joined us on the podcast along with his colleague, Jan Berris, will lead a discussion on June 27 with former national security advisors. The event in Washington, D.C., is open to the public, but you need to RSVP. More info is here: http://goo.gl/yBT43o

Jim Lauderdale - The Star   Jamie Kent Prince of Pain Still A Dream           Rosalita Look Up Bonfire https://youtu.be/YSCu5qwzwgg   Jon Stickley Trio Point to Point Blackburn Brothers Rice Dream Darth Radar Echolocation https://youtu.be/bK35-zTvnIU Blackberry Blossom   Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn Fisherman’s Song Yu Zhou Chang Wan https://youtu.be/GAIiioJnziA Julien Johnson/Cindy’s Little Hand Ho Hey/Chuck Old Hen Banjo Guzheng Pickin’ Girl https://youtu.be/w5GyM3rI3VA   Band Of Ruhks Here Comes The Broken Heart Again Devil And The Deep Good Time Mountain Man Lost Highway Bootleg John https://youtu.be/5RtZxF5662U   Nashville Jam - Nine Pound Hammer https://youtu.be/0wTvLS37FNY

From the makers of The One Piece Podcast comes Endless Schmaltz, a podcast where we go back and see if the shows we loved as kids hold up. We’re starting with the series Gundam Wing. We continue with Episode #21, “The Fight For Independence” That’s an easy mission for Wufei. We will add new episodes […] The post Gundam Wing #22, “The Fight For Independence” appeared first on Endless Schmaltz.

Programme de Chuck Bettis pour webSYNradio : Electronics and throat avec des sons de Fatima Tabaamrante, Nisennenmondai, Hair Stylistics, Sim ＋ Otomo , Zeena Parkins + Ikue Mori, Tetsu Inoue + Carl Stone, Big Blood, Pikacyu + Makoto, Suga Dairo, Jacques Coursil, Sun Ra, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Taraf De Haïdouks, Yara Family, Los Sampler's, Throbbing Gristle, Twig Harper + Daniel Higgs, Meiko Kaji, Makigami Koichi, Wu Fei, The Ex + Tom Cora, Pet Bottle Ningen, Prince Far I, Kongar-ol Ondar & Paul, Pena, Krallice, Yoshimio, OLAibi, Nino Rota.