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光影 · Film
Seven Works · Cinema-Inspired
Catalogue №032
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesTen
FormAcoustic Guitar · Mixed Ensemble

见证一:站台

Witness One: The Platform · Inspired by Jia Zhangke's Platform (1998)

Witness is not memorial, not judgment — it is sitting beside an ordinary life as it appears, quietly watching it show itself. Ten pieces for the decade inside Jia Zhangke's Platform: a train that never comes, a radio's first note from the outside world, an old city wall that outlives everyone who leaned against it. History rarely arrives as event. More often it is a rerouted line, a wall left standing, one person gone, another who stays.

Acoustic GuitarBittersweetFilm-Inspired
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EditionI + II
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesFifteen
Form完整版 · Complete Edition

寂静的朋友 · Complete

Silent Friend I + II · Fifteen Tracks · One Story

The two Silent Friend albums heard as one — the tree and the people, interleaved by era. Part I follows the ginkgo across three lifetimes. Part II gives each person their own song. Together, in chronological order: tree witnesses first, then the inner voice answers.

Double AlbumIldikó EnyediComplete Edition
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Catalogue №011
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesEight
FormVocal · Spanish · Nueva Canción

寂静的朋友 (II)

Silent Friend (II) · Inspired by Ildikó Enyedi's film (2025)

Eight portraits of the people who gathered around a ginkgo tree in a German university garden — the botanist who danced barefoot in 1908, the photographer who understood darkness, the groundskeeper who watched them all arrive and leave. Each voice is a Spanish song. Each song is a kind of presence.

Spanish VocalsNueva CanciónFilm-Inspired
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Catalogue №006
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesSeven
FormNylon Guitar · Vocal & Instrumental

寂静的朋友 (I)

Silent Friend (I) · Inspired by Ildikó Enyedi's film (2025)

Seven pieces for nylon-string guitar, voice, and strings. A ginkgo tree in a German university garden, witnessed across three lifetimes: 1908, 1972, 2020. The music does not retell those stories. It inhabits the same silence.

Spanish VocalsNylon GuitarFilm-Inspired
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Catalogue №003
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesSix
FormMulti-Instrument Ensemble

步履不停

Still Walking · Bùlǚ Bùtíng · Inspired by Hirokazu Koreeda's film (2008)

Six pieces for multi-instrument ensemble. A gem, a student, a teacher, 步履不停. A coffee shop in Tokyo. A final gift to oneself. People who cannot stop moving — not because they know where they're going.

EnsembleCollaborationFilm-Inspired
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Catalogue №007
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesSix
FormChamber Orchestra · Vocal & Instrumental

看到了吗?

Did You See It? · Inspired by the spirit of Miyazaki's Totoro

There is a moment, somewhere in childhood, when you can see things that adults cannot. Not because the things aren't there. Because you haven't learned to look away yet. Six pieces for chamber orchestra and a small imperfect voice.

Chamber OrchestraVocalTotoro-Inspired
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Catalogue №008
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesSix
FormInstrumental · Ambient Folk

勇气

Courage · Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954)

Four kinds of courage. Survival. Transformation. Mastery. Freedom. None of which serves itself. One valley. The earth before all of them, and after.

InstrumentalSeven SamuraiKurosawa
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Catalogue №026
YearMMXXVI · 2026
PiecesSeven
FormPiano Nocturne

美丽的境界

Gravity · In the spirit of John Barry's Somewhere in Time (1980) and the Jane Eyre theme (1970)

A fire at midnight. A lake so still it carries the moon undisturbed. A window, long after everyone has gone to sleep. Seven nocturnes for piano. The melody, each time, reaches upward — arrives at a note that doesn't quite belong — waits — then descends, one step at a time. Seven rooms. One sound.

PianoNocturneFilm-Inspired
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About This Music 关于这些音乐

These albums are made for sharing. Listen freely. Pass them on. If the music finds its way into your life, that is enough.

If you use these recordings in a film, documentary, or serious commercial project — please write to me at nongming66@gmail.com. We will agree on an appropriate amount, which you then donate directly to Dharma Drum Mountain Seattle Center (法鼓山西雅图分会). If you cannot reach me, you are welcome to contact the Seattle Center directly.

A credit to “Gem Lee” is appreciated but not required.

Concept, lyrics & arrangement by Gem Lee / Audio synthesized via AI / nongming66@gmail.com