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haiku #588: The past, immutable - / an icicle stabs / directly downward

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
576
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku576-amongst-the-rushes/

2025-01-15

Amongst The Rushes, (Naviarhaiku 576 )

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 17 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

I read the haiku a few times and imagined a cloud of visibly cool air enveloping a warm lake, a tree and a heron. 

This original version of "Slouch Beneath The Tree With Me" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 576, Amongst The Rushes.

Amongst the rushes,
a stillness comes over us -
Heron in winter.

by: roekin

roekin is a mark of gratitude; an attribution to all that is; kin.
Dependently arising, from a life lived simply, peace+haiku is the growing collection of poetry and writings attributed to roekin.
The collection can be found at roekin.com.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 19 Nov 2017

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Slouch Beneath The Tree With Me  (naviarhaiku576)

another contribution to the haiku challenge of naviar - inspiration hits hard theese times :)

Amongst the rushes,
a stillness comes over us -
Heron in winter.

            - roekin - 

heron on the rocks (naviarhaiku576)

An exploration of not bells ... be careful, though ... the SoundCloud algorithm doesn't consider this music, and I didn't really want to "modify your track to make it eligible" for recommendation to potentially interested listeners! 😂

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

more halF unusuaL

halF unrunG [disquiet0682]

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.



Thought Takes Flight (naviarhaiku577)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 24 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Bell samples, synth, grains. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 05 Sep 2017

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Pig Open Again” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0682:  Unring a Bell. The Assignment: What if you could?

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

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

Pig Open Again (disquiet0682)

Attempt to Unlearn a Short Sequence of Tones - disquiet0682

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to create some music "in which you try to unring a bell."

In practice, I recorded the sound of a gong from our school’s band room (it’s like a bell but BIGGER). Then I tried to create the little snippets of sound that would fly around as the bell rang and which our hard-working theoretical performer would eventually have to reassemble.

Disassembling the bell’s tone into fragments was fun and challenging. I loaded the bell into Anemond’s Factoid to break it up into pieces based on frequency ranges, which got me lots of little snippets (including the drone tones you hear now and then). I also loaded it into Synplant, which generated tons of weird synthetic bells that led me down various rabbit holes of sound design and thoroughly distracted me from this project. I also put the bell sample into Ableton’s Simpler, sliced it into snippets based on transients, and then used the Arpeggiator plug-in to play the snippets randomly.

Isolating and organizing all these fragments and new samples into a track was pretty challenging! Eventually, I outlined the structure of the track, which helped me find my way.

1) Bell tone
2) Bits and pieces dance around the stereo field and an attempt is made to reassemble them
3) The bell is rung again, but this time it sounds slightly different
4) Part of the tone breaks off into a drone while a few snippets flit around
Once again, the bell is reassembled, with a big reverse sound leading into…
5) A big, new bell sound (created by layering pitch-shifted iterations of the original sample)

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

You Wouldn't Unring A Bell (disquiet0682)

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward
 

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.
 
haiku by Saitō Sanki: https://www.littermagazine.com/2023/07/review-sanki-saito-selected-haiku.html

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

halF immutablE [naviarhaiku588]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
588
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable/

2025-04-10

The past, immutable  (Naviarhaiku 588 )

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

by: Saitō Sanki

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.

SONG 84 - Naviarhaiku588

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

The Immutable Past (naviarhaiku588)

11Apr25
My naviarhaiku588 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/780349856376061952/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable

The past, immutable [naviarhaiku588]

Initially I had no inspiration for this challenge. Instead I was working on trying to create a stack of delay plugins that would give me a ping pong effect that I could use on future projects.

I used a single note from a Toraiz AS-1 as the source and when I completed my stack I found it very rhythmic and meditative, much like water dripping from an icicle.

I added other notes at various times and looping them creating a kind of polyrhythm bed and played a gliding lead line over the top. 

All sounds were created by a Pioneer DJ Toraiz AS-1. I love this little synth and its touch keyboard. The front panel controls are very well suited to live jamming and it's very expressive.

The odd title comes from the placement of the gliding lead sound. If I started it at measure 6 it made the middle part sound really good but then the ending was monotonous .  If I started it at measure 13 the other sounds faded out leaving just the lead which made the ending sound cool but then the beginning part was meh. Placing the lead starting at measure 10 seemed the best compromise and thus the name Icicle Ten :-)

Icicle Ten (naviarhaiku588)

2025-04-26

hummingbird

2025-05-04

like in a dream

Brief eclectic electronic experimental excursions. All songs are available as a free download. Thanks for listening :-)

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

Icicle Ten (naviarhaiku588)

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