Poems echo · Stories find a melody
Begin with a poem and meet it again in music. Listen, read the poem and explore the stories it inspires.
Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Beginning with the sunset and Yellow River in Wang Zhihuan's “Ascending Stork Tower,” the song opens up mountains, rivers, and distant skies with each flight of the tower's stairs. Male and female voices sing in expansive melodies of the view from above and horizons still beyond sight, while the evening light and long river echo among the instruments.
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Chinese-Style Folk
Ku Wuji · AI Music
New lyrics inspired by the imagery of Wang Wei's “山居秋暝” (Autumn Evening in a Mountain Dwelling), turning a mountain village after rain, the lamplight of a late homecoming, and a moment of laying weariness aside into a gentle folk song.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Beginning with the Mid-Autumn moonlit night and longing for a younger brother in Su Shi's “To the Tune of Shuidiao Getou,” the song moves from raising a cup to question the moon to sleeplessness and the lights of the human world. It sings of the difficulty of perfect reunions, sharing the moon from two distant places, and sending wishes for peace and well-being. Two solo renditions follow the same moonlight, preserving the lingering ache of longing and the warmth of good wishes.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Beginning with the red bean imagery in Wang Wei’s “Longing,” the song unfolds the sorrow of separation through gathering beans as springtime gifts, keeping the red beads in a sleeve, and imagining their receipt far away. Classical phrasing accompanies a gentle melody in separate male and female solo renditions, conveying affection across mountains and rivers.
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Chinese-Style Folk
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Zhang Ji’s Mooring by Maple Bridge at Night, this homesick song transforms riverside maples, fishing lights, and midnight bells into music. Guzheng and xiao intertwine; a tranquil male voice and a lilting female voice offer two solo interpretations, singing the longing aboard a little traveler’s boat to someone far away.
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