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https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/09/01/naviarhaiku400-cicadas/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”

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- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

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haiku #400: cicadas / the stillness / begins

a long experimentation session between different live recordings, post-process samples and piano improvisation held last summer.

Anti_matter

Anti_Matter

An old "live-in-the-studio" improvisation (circa 2012) 
by
miguel yanover: soprano saxophone
daniel diaz: bowed upright bass, treatments

rediscovered and reworked for this haiku:

⠀
cicadas⠀
the stillness⠀
begins⠀
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poem by andrea cecon

photo by jack b.



@yanomito
@naviar-records

Stillness (naviarhaiku400)

Omnichord and acoustic guitar through stompboxes wh-4 and reverb.

Cicadas (naviarhaiku400)

cicadas
the stillness
begins

haiku by Andrea Cecon https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Cecon/e/B00955O0CA

picture by Haoxi Wang https://unsplash.com/@haoxi

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

feign blah

halF begiN [naviarhaiku400]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
400 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/09/01/naviarhaiku400-cicadas/

2021-09-03

Cicadas   ( Naviarhaiku 400 )

Cicada Sing - Song (naviarhaiku400)

naviarhaiku400 – cicadas

cicadas
the stillness
begins

Here’s the 400th challenge!

As is customary, we celebrate the important numbers with a haiku written by the first person who ever agreed to have their poem reinterpreted into music: Italian haiku writer Andrea Cecon.

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveller, a haijin published all over the world and also an ebook apprentice. His first ebook won the 3rd place in Sharp Writ Book Awards contest 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and the everyday life…

We have been pleased to collaborate with KateR at this project, we think she is really talented and has very good ideas.  
Check her work on sc! 
https://soundcloud.com/user-143414916

Frame
The wooden frame of the ship,
It allows me to dream.
When the weight of the distance
becomes
unbearable,
I begin to imagine
that the sea 
and the coast
are not so far,
they are just invisible 
to my eyes.

Poem: Manca Klun
Bass Synth/sounds: Alessandro De Oliveira Bastos
Strings/Melo synth: KateR

Frame (collaboration with KateR)

This is a collaboration with Stan Magendanz https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz
Hear the two original tracks at
https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/shapes-blur-in-the-void-trembling-at-the-edges-of-thought
https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/a-clash-of-sense-a-break-of-calm
K1043 Elektronik

Striving Upwards( Stan & Robert )

Submission for BB89 - future garage hosted by https://soundcloud.com/celaenooo

decending (bb89)

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Haiku by Miura Chora: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7303145.Ueda_Akinari

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF siftinG [naviarhaiku571]

Over an existing drone I had made from the “quiet” ambience of my house I added three slightly different versions of a stretched treatment of an electronic version of the opening bars of the theme from Star Trek: Voyager.

Also added was a long stretch made from the tonic chord of the theme, pitched an octave down, for a bit of gravitas.

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The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone.

Step 1: We did a drone project last week and it went well, so let’s do another one. You needn’t have done last week’s to do this week, as is always the case. Again, you may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.

Step 2: Think about what makes a melody, even a very slow and simple melody, different from a drone.

Step 3: Now record a piece of music that is, objectively, a deep drone, but somehow within it, somewhere well below the surface, include a slow-moving melody.

More at https://disquiet.com/0676/


More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

Subvoyager [disquiet0676]

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project, which was to create a drone with a melody well hidden in the soundscape. I composed a drone - as in last week's track - based on sounds I created for another endeavour, and hid a slow, soothing melody within the soundscape.  

More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody - The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone - at https://disquiet.com/0676/

The Melody Within (Disquiet0676)

Thanks so much to Numbers In The Dream for agreeing to this collaboration.  Please pay a visit @numbersinthedream-1

You've Got Your Good Face

This week's task is rather serendipitous in that I am actually engaged in some minor wood working this weekend. I recently built a small Buchla 100 system (and its case), consisting of what is shown in the image and the as yet unhoused (and not shown) 114 touch control module, which is what the piece of unstained pine sitting on top of the Buchla is destined for. I selected pine because my woodworking skills are still rather rudimentary so working with higher priced and more difficult lumber makes me nervous. Plus, there is something comforting about pine's ubiquity and approachability. Making a mistake with pine seems excusable. Doing so with walnut or oak less so. That said, I got to thinking about the pine that I picked up at my local lumber shop in terms of the conditions under which it is grown and the vast quantities of trees that are stripped from the land so that people like me can make boxes for their vintage synthesizers. Sonically, I imagined this as a somewhat discordant drone, with peaks and valleys and occasional moments of harmony. The trees grow, mainly in a state or quietude, before they are cut down and processed to the sound of chain saws and saw blades. And then everything goes quiet again as the next crop is planted.  Graphically, I notated this imagined scenario as a series of constant lines, punctuated here and there with peaks, valleys, bright and dark spots, representing in part the knots and impurities in the pine but also the experience of the piece of wood in its transition from tree to commodity. Everything you hear was created on my humble System 100, which was first fed through the Empress Zoia pedal using the "soft focus" effect created by Christopher H.M. Jacques and then further transformed in Logic using "fragments," and "motion" from Arturia, with hints of the unprocessed Buchla emerging here and there. And there was panning. Lots of panning, so headphones are the preferred listening approach.

disquiet0690

Resisting Eternal Oblivion

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Cicadas (naviarhaiku400)

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