A Dream of Flying Became My Latest Music finished on 2014 Chinese New Year's Eve (LISTEN ONLINE)

Happy Chinese New Year! I was lucky enough to finish the first music composition of the year 2014 on the Chinese New Year eve (Jan 30^th 2014). It took me two weeks to complete my new music piece “Flying High Above”.

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Actually the general plot of this piece is to express that when you soar high, you are able to overlook everything and see mountains, rivers and people below. You’ll be able to have the feeling of “hold all mountains in a single glance”, having a panoramic view of everything when flying in the air.

Let me tell you where the inspiration comes from: China has many stories of people cultivating buddhahood or obtaining the Dao/Tao, as China’s five thousand year culture is a divine one. There are also many illusion or magician performances in the west having the similar scene, which is that a person who is doing meditation starts to float up, and then flying in the air. I remember once in an evening I had a dream of my own flying up too. It seemed that flying freely can also be tricky, you have to learn to flick the wind, fanning the air, keep your balance; and controlling height and speed too.

So this piece is a result of the combination of the above two inspiring factors. There are 2 sections in the piece. The first part is orchestral film music style, depicting the following plot: A cultivator sitting cross-legged, practicing meditation with his eyes closed, lightly ascended up without realizing. This was also his first time in the air too, so he was actually also slightly scared when he realized he was flying. Feeling a little bit nervous, he tried to calm down and gave it a go. He slowly loosed his legs, trying to flick the air with hands, and carefully tried to climb up. It seemed that he could soon master it, as the action was a bit more natural. He was then happily and magically flying in the meditation room. Then he realized that it was not enough to just fly in the house, he paused a bit, and decided that it was time for him to fly out reaching the top of the mountains. Surprisingly, he not only flew over the mountain tops, he momentarily flew passed eaves, roofs, hills, mountains, mountain tops, and even clouds, etc. Mountains, rivers, grasslands are all in a panoramic view. That was exactly the feeling of “holding all mountains in a single glance”, also praising the magnificence of nature.

The second part is still in orchestral format, adding modern drum beats: It is time to start the journey of real flight. You can glide in the air, you can also do stunt at low altitude. You can fly high and see far; you can also flying in mid air to experience the feeling of connecting the sky and the land; you can fly very low to observe subtle things. It’s like from heaven to earth, from high to low, from far to near, from macro to micro world; every level can be easily and freely looked in just a single glance.

At the end of the music, the flying guy calmly went back to his original place of meditation after this magical journey, slowly descended. He sat down and closed his eyes. Everything went back to quiet and peace as if nothing had happened.

Actually flying up is not just referring to the body ascending, but also referring to the soul ascending as well.

Actually it’s similar from the journey of life point of view too. I would like to invite you to think about the meaning of “I see not the true face of Lushan mountain because I am in the mountain”. We stand high and see far in our life. It’s not referring to these worldly things such as higher social classes, higher positions and having more wealth, but to see if you could look at issues from a higher realm when trapped in conflicts, difficulties or contradictions. We always consider things that we are pursuing hard are important. However, when you fly up high enough, you could see even people have become so small just like little ants. When we fly higher, they are even as small as these microbes, and you cannot see them anymore. Who would care about things that they don’t see? So no matter what hardships you are facing, they can all be walked passed, or put down. When your heart flies high above leaving the world, these worldly things become smaller. You understand every aspects of the problem in just a simple glance. Even you don’t even feel it anymore! Because you are not in the problem but outside of it instead. This is what this piece would like to express.

I hope you like this new piece of mine! And I wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Year of the Horse!

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