28: The Intersection Of Music And Language With Linguist, Author & Jazz Musician David Moser

​How much overlap is there between music and language? Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning Geopats Podcast Guest David Moser, joins us again for a dive into this question. 

David's past Geopats Podcast episodes:​
ep 24: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/d6402021-9f81-4250-9951-a3f2ca88278e 
ep 22: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ddc5df81-1323-4b17-99ad-6b59c6115d93

David's Info: 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/david__moser
Why Chinese is so hard (article): http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
“A Billion Voices” (book): https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Voices-Language-Penguin-Special-ebook/dp/B01FVD7LES/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538717916&sr=1-1&keywords=billion+voices
More about David: http://www.chinafile.com/contributors/david-moser

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The Short Story that inspired their Band's name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Story_of_Ah_Q

David's Beijing Jazz Band, Ah-Q Jazz Arkestra

www.ahqjazz.com

​The book by Douglas R. Hofstadter that David helped translate.   
​https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach

​The Book of Changes: Jazz in China, Talks at Google

​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV2w3NkIp2A

​Steph's Shanghai based jazz fiction book recommendation:
​Night in Shanghai by Nicole Mones 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222672-night-in-shanghai

​https://www.nicolemones.com/

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There are 2 announcements in this  episode:
1. #PodRevDay and 2. The Fluent Show Podcast
Note: If you have a related podcast, project OR announcement, these spots are free. Email me for more info. 

(13:47) #PodRevDay and our need for Language Ambassadors

(15:24) Daniel from My Fluent Podcast (left)
shares some info about his language learning podcast. I found Daniel's podcast recently and was so excited about the depth of language learning description and audience engagement that I wrote about it for this Discover Podcast article (right).

​https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-fluent-podcast/id1107419200

https://discoverpods.com/podcasts-learn-new-language/

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David's Episode of the You Can Learn Chinese Podcast 

https://youcanlearnchinese.mandarincompanion.com/episodes/8-tones-music-and-confidence

Fun fact:
You Can Learn Chinese is also one of my favorite podcasts
AND is on the above Discover Pods List.
​Small language world, isn't it?

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​Blues in Chinese: Zhang Ling "Big John"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tStTC84LzFA

​David and I chatted briefly about the word length difference between Chinese & German. I did a quick online search  and found this amazing website by Ravi Parikh 
http://www.ravi.io/language-word-lengths 
Below are images from this site that show the word length difference between German & English...

...however, Chinese was not one of the languages on this page, so I tweeted the Creator Ravi

Looked up the word length difference between Chinese & German and found your website. Wow, this is amazing. Do you have any data on Chinese compared to the ones already in your data? Thanks! https://t.co/XoqNKUYiTd #languagejoy #languages #GeopatsPodcast

— Stephanie Fuccio (@stephfuccio) March 13, 2020

I will add more info here if he replies!

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https://www.damoncastillo.com

Music courtesy of

​Damon Castillo

The song in this episode

is “I Hope You Figure It Out"

from the

"Mess of Me" album.

This episode was created with:
-Steph was using a Samson Q2U microphones 
-David recorded on his iPhone
- We chatted on Zoom Cloud Recoding, https://zoom.us/ 
-The audio was leveled on Auphonic,the best online leveling software (and it's free!)
-The episode art of David rocking out on a piano was made with Canva, https://www.canva.com
-Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)