Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge::

- 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 (naviarhaiku382)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on X, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

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haiku #586: fog dissolves to rain - / cool breezes clear the vista, / showing cloud-topped hills

Autumn By The Lake

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/

submerged [disquiet0676]

Snow*Omen/Velvet Something Superdark collaboration based on Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (1972). Recording of partly improvised live performances (Y.A.: voice, fretless 4-string-cbg, e-bow, VSS: electric guitars, pedal noise, background voice). All sounds: @snow_omen. Mixing and production: VSS.

Perfect Day, Extended

White Structure

Snow Mantle

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 )

RIP David Lynch.

Disquiet Junto 0681 directed us to compose a sonic scene from a thriller, a walk or run to remember. If you're familiar with my work you know that I love a good narrative piece, and recently the Junto has encouraged a bit of sound design, so I felt well-prepared.

I wanted to avoid the trope of a woman being followed late at night, and instead went with the trope of the hitchhiker who may not be all that she seems to be. I spent a lot of time on stereo orchestration so please use headphones when listening.

Instrumentation was simple: a custom pad called "Shipwreck Organ" provided the pedal tone, with a lonely live guitar following along with minimal and mournful notes. 

There were a lot of samples used in this piece. The cars passing along the highway were hidden deep in Apple's Final Cut Pro library folder. The sound of single car approaching, idling, car door slamming, and pulling away is a composite of samples from Pixabay and field recordings. The BBC archive provided the car crash sample. The night sounds were from a field recording made in rural Virginia. The crunch of gravel underfoot took a bit of foley work: a recording of a potato mashing into a bowl of granola and manipulated a bit in Logic. The under-the-breath singing and humming of the hitchhiker was a live vocal performance recorded in studio and processed.

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

The Hitchhiker (disquiet0681)

I imagined a walk in the woods, which starts out blissfully enough and then ends in darkness and a tangle of aggressive branches and unseen monsters. Hence the cheery sequence, all in C major, that starts off the track which then begins to break down, first with a bit of dissonance before being completely taken over by a low drone that takes the hapless walker into the dark lodge of their dreams. All this was done in Logic, using Arturia's "mallets" plug in and granular effects.

disquiet0681

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/

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halF unrunG [disquiet0682]

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



Thought Takes Flight (naviarhaiku577)

Bowed basses and cellos (harmonics, fx and sustained notes)
Composed and performed by DD in Paris 27/March/2025.

Inspired by this haiku

Fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

Poem by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Casey Horner

@naviar-records
@ray_cobley

Fog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/

Thank you Marco.

Fog dissolves to rain (naviarhaiku586)

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

Fog Dissolves (naviarhaiku586)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 586

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills
 

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

 

haiku by Raymond Cobley

picture by Inggrid Koe
 

Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

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

Grey &amp; Cold

Grey & Cold (naviarhaiku586)

29Mar25
My naviarhaiku586 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/779084554596139009/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain
:D

fog dissolves to rain [naviarhaiku586]

I really had fun with the sound design on this one! Hopefully you will hear the fog dissolving into rain and the wind of the cool breeze clearing the vista so you can feel the sweeping bass/base of the cloud topped hills. :-)

I used the Dreadbox Erebus v3 for all the sounds and used its patchbay for every sound too. It was fun to explore. 

The wind was the easiest to make and I patched in the noise directly into the filter input where I did a manual filter sweep.

I am most proud of the rain sound. I took the noise out into the switch and then drove the switch with the clock and I adjusted the clock's rate and duty cycle to adjust the density of the rain. The output of the switch drove the gate and then I dialed in some filter resonance to give the raindrops some tonal information. 

The main musical notes took the output of the LFO into the VCA and I drove the VCA with the slow attack and slow decay of the filter's envelope. The output of the VCA went to the filter cutoff. This allows the LFO to gradually come in as the note sustains and adds some movement. I also used a lot of feedback on the delay to create extra resonance in the sound.

The Fog (naviar-haiku586)

2025-04-26

hummingbird

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

The Fog (naviar-haiku586)

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