NH122: mid-point of the bridge / I hover above / the river’s current

She Returns

Take over the city. Theme for the table top game I'm running!

Renegade

For this week's Naviar Haiku, I improvised at the piano, imagining looking at the rippling waters below. I tried also to represent the bridge as a rising and later falling motif. This is the best performance I did, but annoyingly it was recorded too hot and distorts :-(  So - here is another recording which is cleaner but maybe not as interesting in my opinion : https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/the-river-naviarhaiku122-mid-point-of-the-bridge-take-2

Poem by r-d-w: "Mid-point of the bridge / I hover above / the river's currents"

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/143836265323/naviarhaiku122-mid-point-of-the-bridge


The River (NaviarHaiku122 - mid point of the bridge) Take 1

For this week's Naviar Haiku, I improvised at the piano, imagining looking at the rippling waters below. I tried also to represent the bridge as a rising and later falling motif. Annoyingly the best performance was recorded too hot and distorts :-(  So - this is a different take, which is cleaner but not as interesting in my opinion. 

Poem by r-d-w: "Mid-point of the bridge / I hover above / the river's currents"

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/143836265323/naviarhaiku122-mid-point-of-the-bridge


The River (NaviarHaiku122 - mid point of the bridge) Take 2

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
122week haiku 
Poem by r-d-w: "Mid-point of the bridge / I hover above / the river's currents"
naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/143836265…-of-the-bridge

Mystic River (Naviarhaiku122 - mid-point of the bridge)

Mid-point of the bridge-
I hover above
the river’s current

Poem by: r-d-w
http://r-d-w.tumblr.com

Picture by: Martin Brigden
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noddymini

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

The Crystal River [Naviarhaiku122 - mid-point of the bridge]

I went deep into the symbolism that these words have for me, for today's song. Don't know whether that will be evident in the performance.

What's a bridge? Something that goes over something that is between where you are now and someplace else.

A river is going that-a-way, its water flowing over its bed fluidly, carrying with it anything taken up by its currents.

The "I" narrator of this song is going cross-wise to the flow of the river; wherever they are, and wherever they're going, the river's path is otherwise, and it therefore (in this case) forms an obstacle. But no worries—there's a bridge, a way over, a way past.

And for a moment, a hovering-over, as the arch of one path encounters the flow of another.

Mid-Point Of The Bridge [Naviarhaiku122 - mid-point of the bridge]

These circlesong samples are mainly without solos –
so feel free to improvise above these tracks ! 
All voices sung in by Frank Ebeling

frankebeling.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/…clesinging/
circlesinging.myblog.de

Many thanks for the inspiring sessions with Bobby McFerrin, Roger Treece, Joey Blake, Rhiannon, Kristian Skårhøj and other singers over the last years, of which I have recovered here some ideas, approaches and material, to study it in detail and to develop also own ideas.

Bajo Vihuela

Strictly for Amado Ohland

Feel free to improvise above these Harmonies !
The download is ready for looping in iTunes-Player. 
https://de.scribd.com/document/320825558/Fm7-9-11-Noten

https://frankebeling.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/circlesinging/

http://circlesinging.myblog.de/circlesinging/page/1938983/Uben

Fm7-9-11

This track is a reply to “SSS Prompt 80: Sing from a common sentence.”  More on the Society for Spontaneous Singing at http://singthis.org .
Using ableton live to loop , all voice but through vocoder .

Couple-sss-sentence

Alex Burtzos' "pOwer trIo" (2018). Studio recording made May 2019. 

George Weremchuk, Alto Saxophone
Will Daniels, Piano
Thad Anderson, Drums and Vibraphone

Engineered by Thomas Harrison.

pOwer trIo

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

Vocalist, composer, and improviser on a mission to use music to bring joy, hope, and mirth to people's lives, as well as relief from sorrow and despair.

Use whatever you've got to do the same.

Mid-Point Of The Bridge [Naviarhaiku122 - mid-point of the bridge]

Amado Ohland

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