in this week's economist (apr 1-7) there's an article on a pipa player - wu man, by name - in which the sound of her instrument is likened to "pearls
falling onto a jade plate."
would anyone care to wax lyrical over the sound of an oud?
- billzalzal - 4-7-2006 at 09:06 AM
"pearls falling onto a jade plate" is what for me described the better the sound of Jamil Ghanim,s oud. There is like a brilliance.
"sapphires dancing inside a well" is Omar Naqishbendi.billkilpatrick - 4-7-2006 at 11:35 PM
from a desert cave
deep down, dark and resonant
a drop of waterLeeVaris - 4-8-2006 at 07:12 PM
from a smokey breath
bubbles cloud the glass chamber
an oud sings tarab
Oud-ku...
keep 'em coming...Mike - 4-8-2006 at 11:50 PM
You guys are starting to remind of Vic "the brick" Jacobs! billkilpatrick - 4-9-2006 at 12:26 AM
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Originally posted by Mike
You guys are starting to remind of Vic "the brick" Jacobs!
is this a good thing ...?.... or a bad thing?
ciao - billMike - 4-9-2006 at 12:59 AM
I love Vic the brick. So it's a very good thing. He's a local sports talk radio guy who ends his show with something he calls "Vic's hai ku" which is
immediately followed up with an Asian suspended gong sound. He's the greatest.Mike - 4-9-2006 at 01:09 AM
Here are some shots of my guy, Vic "The Brick" Jacobs. He's well known for sporting kimonos and fur hats...usually purple or blue ones for the local
team colors. I love this guy! He is a huge character.billkilpatrick - 4-9-2006 at 02:33 AM
... doesn't appear to be your every-day variety meditative, brown-rice eating, haiku-writing, zen aesthete, mike ...DJdog - 4-9-2006 at 11:36 AM
Here's a wild one from a poem by Al-Mu'tamid, ruler of Sevilla from 1068 to 1091CE.
"The strings of her aoud
wounded by the risha
made me shiver
as if I heard a melody
played by swords on the
necks of the enemy."Elie Riachi - 4-9-2006 at 06:57 PM
Chaos propagates
... by a butterfly's swing,
contrasting the order of
... colors of its wing
as the chaos generated from
... plucking an oud's string
contrasted by order of resonance
... in accordance to vibrating length.
-Elie RiachiArto - 4-11-2006 at 08:29 AM
Bill,
your "desert cave haiku" was so poignant and beautiful. Thank you.zalzal - 4-11-2006 at 08:54 AM
To summarise :
pearls falling onto a jade plate
sapphires dancing inside a well
from a desert cave
deep down, dark and resonant
a drop of water
from a smokey breath
bubbles cloud the glass chamber
an oud sings tarab
To be continued ??billkilpatrick - 4-11-2006 at 10:55 AM
... cha-cha-cha.stringmanca - 4-28-2006 at 11:21 AM
branches from distant forests
bound with singing wires
borne on eagle feathers
brought to earth
so we can send notes to heaven
