Sunny Day

I wait for the warmth from the body to spread 
across the surface of the bed.
A fear that you'll return home as a stranger,
that what I know about you got stuck on the way to me,
halted on some corner and you'll come empty,
with miles of alienation on your shoulders, 
that I'll look in the eyes 

and it won't be your eyes, 
those same morning eyes, 
but some other two irises, brown like yours.
That only words that don't move anything 
will come out of your mouth,
that won't move you closer to me,
they will be just a wobbly bridge forward or past.

Look, darling, I'm on top now and you're too far,
to be able to catch what falls from me, what rolls towards the foot.
What will come to you will be brittle sand clots.
Then watch out how you touch them!

Words: Manca Klun
Music: Alessandro De Oliveira Bastos

Out Of Numbness

Migration - Mystique Wind | EnigmaCurry

Screen Door

naviarhaiku379 – rain rituals

rain rituals
in the light of torches –
mountain peaks at night

Rain rituals (naviarhaiku379)

Photo by fabulous Billy&Hells
https://www.billyandhells.com

"ANd i YoU" by Frosty Springnight

BESIDES

This piece made in response to this week's @naviar-records weekly haiku challenge was an involved process. I asked ChatGPT to use the letters of the extracted word (the "Deutzia") flower to create the note sequence for a melody. Which it did. 4 different versions of. I found these sequenes quite pleasing and found voices for them in Logic presets. From there I played each of them live in response to each other not using a time signature. However what took a great deal of time was rearranging these live parts so that it (sort of) makes sense as a musical progression. It's almost worked as an experiment, especially when I gave each voice room to breathe and have solo sections. If I was to really work on the piece seriously I'd change some notes and add more variance, but I'm pretty pleased with what's here. I've remained faithful to the notes and added some variance through transposing sections.

Here's the information about this week's challenge:

"Deutzia in full white -
deep in the night,
the Milky Way."

Ikenishi Gonsui (1650–1722) was a haiku poet from Nara who settled permanently in Kyoto in 1684. A collection of his works, entitled Ikenishi Gonsui no kenkyū, was published in 2003.

Haiku by Ikenishi Gonsui

Picture by Christina Deravedisian

Submission deadline: 3rd December 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Deutzia (naviarhaiku621)

Environmental Tipping Points—where a small disturbance triggers a large response. They produce abrupt and sometimes irreversible change.
Are we there yet?

Tipping point

RKKS3300

Epiphany

www.dezernat5.de
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie3PzgNXw0o
tototod.bandcamp.com/album/apeiron
https://martinhoogeboom.bandcamp.com/album/crackle-sniff-hiss
https://thomassander1.bandcamp.com/

thomas.sander.schwerin@gmail.com

BESIDES

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