Hello!
I know it’s a all kind dshamisen-based communiti, but I’m wandering if someone can play a different Japanese instrument.
Starting to me, I play the piano… but I want to begin Learning virtual instruments… also, a cousin made a Christmas present for me: a virtual soukyoku stuff! Koto, shamisen (jiuta) and juushichi-gen. They are KONTAKT library
So, can you let me now if there are people who plays other Japanese instruments?
Thanks!
Sakuraharu
Aside from shamisen I’m also learning Shakuhachi through Jon Kypros’ book, and through some online vidoes as well.
Along with shamisen I play taiko with St. Louis Osuwa Taiko and can play a fue without upsetting nearby animals.
I play can play a fue without upsetting nearby animals.
This deserves the highest praise.
Edit:
Also, Sakura, a few of my friends play Koto. Another used to play shakuhachi, but ironically stopped when she moved to Japan.
Hello! I’m surprised for lots of replies! That’s beautiful 
I have a friend in France who plays shakuhachi… he played the instrument for 10 years and participate in a peace volunteers group
I have contact with Dazai Mitsuki, a koto-master in United States, because I want to do a surprise for my friend who plays koto… it’s a piece called Utage Uta and Mitsuki will play the 17-string koto sending me the soundfile, because we live in different places…
Unfortunately, my friend isn’t well
Wow, Joel! Can I hear something?
I wish to contact a biwa player in this forum… Unfortunately, most biwa players don’t understand English… I’m not Japanese
In another topic, I wrote my researches for anyone who can play biwa… With some friends (also the French shakuhachi player and my friend) are preparing a fusion project project… We are almost complete, but the only thing we need is a biwa player!!! Most biwa players are ONLY INTERESTED IN TRADITIONAL! It’s like some piano Teachers who 100% DISLIKE the other genres except classical… I want to stop piano because now I’m in this fascinating world… Japanese instruments are very beautiful and, discovering them, I changed my opinions about different things…
PS: In the project we use only soundfiles
I play the shakuhachi and will be hosting a shakuhachi meetup this Sunday at the Japanese Culture Center on Belmont in Chicago, 4pm. Our theme this month is ‘Japanese poetry and sounds of shakuhachi’ …should be really cool combination.
I am also interested to play music with a shamisen player or other Japanese instruments.
Hi Senghe!
I supposed you’re Chinese… but I don’t know
Japanese poetry? I love Japanese poems, especially shigin and heikyoku!
If you’re interested in playing with other players, don’t esitate to participate in our project!!!
But what genre do you play with shakuhachi?
hi sakura, no i am not chinese…i am african american who lived in japan as a baby and got hooked on the culture so to speak. my genre? i suppose i would call my style contemporary/mystical with traditional roots as i have been listening and imitating masters, honkyoku, folk songs and advanced players for long time now…lately i listen to shinto music, gagaku and work to incorporate some of those sounds into the mix.
i was also deeply moved and inspired by the music of john coltrane in my 20’s…he introduced his listeners to a form of ‘spiritual jazz’ along with his wife alice coltrane.
some of my music can be heard on youtube:
to get an idea.
please tell me more about your project and how i might participate.
js
Hi Sakura:
I also play koto and jiuta shamisen. I play classical and contemporary pieces on both those instruments.
As for biwa, there is a biwa player here in Bachido - Alcvin Ramos. (His main instrument is shakuhachi.) He is a very open-minded/versatile musician, so maybe he can help you…
Hello everyone!
I want to do a project (divided in two more projects) called Dreams Road, because we’re pursuing a dream I had since I was 4. OK, when I was 4 years old, this dream wasn’t really so… I wanted to marry a Chinese… Now Now I’m 15 years old
I heard lots of traditional Chinese/Japanese performances on YouTube and I think traditional music is very relaxing, dreamy and sometimes obscure and mystic!
With some friends, I want to start a project that is based on contaminations between traditional Japanese and Chinese music, instruments and singing styles with modern music. We want to do a virtual tribute album made of lot of stuff: rearrangements of Chinese pop songs, rearrangements of Japanese pop songs, Chinese/Japanese traditional music, original works… Obviously, the ideas grow up!!!
The featured traditional instruments (Chinese and Japanese) are: erhu, koto, guzheng, shamisen, pipa, juushichigen, biwa and shakuhachi. We’ll play with our instruments, along with a background track made of synths (the majority of cases). We’ll play the instruments from our houses, with multitracking. We don’t have a studio, but we can record each instrument from a software called SONAR, or by sending an MP3 file and mixing it to the rest of the tracks. We’re searching for someone who can collaborate with us playing. We do this without any commercial purpose (despite there are some professionist helping us, we are all friends and we know each other from e-mails), but I hope you consider my project, also because some of us are blind. It’s a symbolic way to demonstrate how music is wonderful, despite some everyday problems. If you agree, can you play with us? It will be a unique pleasure for us! If you can play with us, can you send me a sample at
ale2001.d@icloud.com
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In most pieces, we don’t use Chinese or Japanese notation, so I don’t know if you understand Western notation. In our project there are people who play the traditional instruments, while people who compose the backgrounds.
AGAIN
We do this without a commercial purpose, because most of us are under 18 years old.
I’m writing for the Japanese section of the project called wapop, a fusion between the Japanese word wagaku (traditional music) and pop. This section is the Japanese part of the project, while the Chinese part is posted to research members in a forum dedicated to Chinese music. The Japanese instrument we will have are koto, jiuta-shamisen, juushichigen, biwa, shakuhachi.
We’re holding an “audition” (it isn’t that, because there aren’t judges, but it’s based on our choices), it doesn’t matter where do you live. As said above, we accept professional players, butt without charges!
What?!? Alcvin also plays the biwa?
This guy is really full of surprises!
Jacinthe, I could be misremembering, but yeah, I thought he told me years ago that he plays a bit.
There’s info on Alcvin’s website here: http://alcvin.ca/ryuzen/about. It says, he studied Satsuma Biwa for a year with Yukio Tanaka.
And there is also information about his biwa studies on this page: http://philipgelb.blogspot.ca/2011/03/april-16-dinnerconcert-with-alcvin.html.
Wow! I want play biwa! I contacted Ryuzen-sensei (I’m ispired!) on skype and will let you know what he will say… but I said him if he knows someone who plays biwa, because I think he’s really busy and don’t have time to collaborate with us