Possibly the most viewed shakuhachi performance of all time?
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NATURAL SHAKUHACHI - root-end wisdom
Cornelius Boots is a certified grandmaster of Zen shakuhachi, a renegade classical composer and lifelong woodwind performance visionary. Longer bio below.

I had always hoped that people would grow their intelligence about music from this performance, and I'd say in the five years since then, it has happened a tiny bit -- maybe 15% of what I would prefer.
So, it was up to me to illuminate the main substance of this demi-controversial and semi-celebrated short performance: THE MUSIC.

As far as the sometimes popular adjacent topic of Cultural Suffocation goes, of course I have many thoughts on that, so if you want another video where I get into those waters, let me know. Respectful, open minds are required, however, to truly approach discussing or learning about the deeper topics of culture and music -- I find these realms to be poorly understood in general.

Articles on one aspect of the response back in 2018:
Japan Times:
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Bored Panda
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Woodwind Nature
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Black Earth Shakuhachi School
Traditional Zen Shakuhachi Flute Practice and nature meditation merges with deeper musicianship.
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深竹道 - 地無し尺八
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LONG BIO:
Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989. A licensed shakuhachi grandmaster (dai shihan), prize-winning composer and former bass clarinet performance innovator, he is actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House on jinashi (all-natural) and Taimu (bass) shakuhachi.

Boots has generated and released an entire body of new songs and compositions for these large, raw and rare bamboo flutes of Japanese Zen Buddhist origin: mukyoku (27 pieces for Taimu) and Shakuhachi Unleashed (48 virtuosic songs of rock, Zen, blues, metal and more). In 2018, he was a finalist in the World Shakuhachi Competition, a featured performer for Sony PlayStation’s E3 press conference (LA) and a featured performer/lecturer at both the World Bamboo Congress (Xalapa, Mexico) and the World Shakuhachi Festival (London).

A three-time graduate of the renowned Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99), Boots’ training and work experience is deep and diverse: jazz saxophonist, swing clarinetist, symphony bass clarinetist, funk and progressive rock bandleader and founder/composer of the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. With the three albums of the Shakuhachi Unleashed series, Cornelius continues to develop “bamboo gospel,” a robust, cross-cultural solo style utilizing rare breath-defying techniques and maximum polystylistic prowess.

A Performer’s Certificate Awardee from David N. Baker’s seminal Jazz Studies program at Indiana University, Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) in 2013 and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In 2022, he was awarded a Dai Shihan (grandmaster) certificate in recognition of his dedication and contribution to the art and practice of shakuhachi. In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. First-prize winner of the 2013 International Clarinet Composition Competition, Boots has also received commissions and awards from Chamber Music America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Areon Flutes, International Songwriting Competition and Meet the Composer.
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Visit [ Ссылка ] - sign up and contact Cornelius for online lessons. You don't need a flute or "basic sounds" before you start learning: with shakuhachi, these are important aspects of your first lessons.

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深禅 (Shinzen)

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