So Hello, thank you so much for letting me speak. I am here to talk to you about an endangered species list for musicians, not that I think musicians are animals, maybe some, but that I see a lot of similarities between a lot of exotic instruments and musicians and endangered animals. If you look behind me, you see Afghan, Rabab musician, and a French horn. Both the French horn and the Rabab are symbols of music that are in trouble. The symphony is definitely in a decline right now, as far as attendance and such. Baowai Chen, behind me, he plays an instrument called a shun. X-U-N. It's an ancient instrument. Very few people play it still professionally on the planet. And the reason I'm coming in and speaking to you guys about this is I want us to do something about it now before instruments are silenced forever. And we only have pictures or we have videos. And we need to start to do some things. So one thing that you think about, if you think about endangered species, you think about captivity versus out in the wild. And captivity for a musician in a good way, I'm not knocking anything here. A university setting, endomeths for large symphonies, are things that kind of sustain a musician or an artist where they may not be sustainable out in the wild. Now, the wild for us, I am a musician. Oh, I just hit the mic. Is the out in the wild is here. On the stage like this, playing for people like you, because there's an energy, there's a need with musicians that we want to play for you. And there's something inside us that makes us want to go to a concert and hear people do it. So I don't like to be a negative person. I don't want to come on and say, oh, this is ending in bad. I want to offer some solutions. One thing I think we could reinvent the orchestra to make it speak to modern day people. And the other is a silk road of the 21st century a world orchestra website. Now, this is a design that I came up with thinking about the Western style of orchestra, the Eastern Chinese style of orchestra, Arabic styles of orchestra, big band, all that. Put it together, we have one universal world orchestra that can speak to our global people. We're all connected to the internet. And we all see things and talk to people all over the world. Well, this new orchestra can really speak to who we are today. There'll be a few pictures showing you different experiments that I've had. I've put together various groups, various instruments. But people all over the world are realizing the same thing that musicians are in trouble. There's not as many albums being bought today. A lot of music on television is done by synthesizer. Their attendance at concerts is down. So we need to do something. And we don't want you to come to a concert because you feel sorry for us. We want you to come to a concert. Yeah, because you like to come to concerts. So we need to be performing music that you like, that you enjoy. We need to find some common ground so that we're worth saving. OK, so the other thing was that world orchestra website. Now, I don't own the website. I'm not peddling a website or anything. But if we had a one place where people from all over the world can share their traditions of instrument, such as their notation system, how they rehearse, whether they read or don't read, how is their music passed down from father to son or guru, how is the system working? Because that will speed up this process of getting a new energized music scene with instruments from all over. Five minutes, man. It goes back. That. So I didn't talk to you about why should you care? Why doesn't matter? Since the dawn of time, there have been musicians. And musicians pass it down to the younger generation. And if we allow musicians to go extinct, if we only listen to a certain popular style and everything else disappears, then we lose a large piece of who we are as humans. We lose a connection to what we were and the story of us. It's gone. And once it's extinct, it's extinct. We can watch a video, but we no longer have the master to teach us how we did it. Now, if you check under your seats, you won't find anything. But. But we do have the after hours after this. And anyone that wants a free song, I'm happy. I'll give you a card. It's a free song. Email me. I'd love to share some music with you. I've also put some links up. You can check it out. I'm here to talk to you about the endangered species list for musicians. I hope we can work together to do it before our instruments fall silent forever. true music.