Music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To participate in the Haiku challenge:

- Make a song in response to the assigned haiku poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday, and you can find it at http://www.naviarrecords.com/blog)

- Upload your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku135)”

Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix it by using a Creative Commons License.


Naviar Haiku Challenge: 50 - 100

Naviar Records

Naviar Haiku 057

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The 57th assignment is another poem by Takahama Kyoshi, though this time the kigo (season word) refers to springtime

Participants are to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and post it on Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory (https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory)

Deadline: 11th February 2015

Haiku poem by Takahama Kyoshi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoshi_Takahama

Picture by Viktor Dobai

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wiiiiktor/with/14329184520/

Shut it [naviarhaiku057 - Shutting my eyes]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/02/naviarhaiku-057-shutting-my-eyes.html for track discussion.

Tired Of Being A Drone [Naviarhaiku 057 - Shutting my eyes]

Shutting My Eyes...[Naviarhaiku057]

Musical response to HG Wells' story The Star, see http://naviarsoundbook.tumblr.com/post/114613116326/naviar-soundbook-002

A Planetary Collision [Naviarbook 002 - The Star]

See http://naviarsoundbook.tumblr.com/post/115191112171/naviar-soundbook-003

The story concerns a man from the ancient city of Carcosa who awakens from a sickness-induced sleep to find himself lost in an unfamiliar wilderness.

Carcosa [Soundbook 003 - Carcosa]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/04/naviar-soundbook-004-dreams.html for track discussion.

High [Soundbook004 - Dreams]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/04/naviar-soundbook-005-stonecutter.html for track description and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArFkJSO1ZBc for video.

Polish [Soundbook005 - Stonecutter]

Song inspired by a short story, see http://naviarsoundbook.tumblr.com/post/117066492836/the-mayamah

Striped And Marked [Soundbook006 - The Mayamah]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/12/naviar-haiku-0100-winter-evening.html for track discussion and video.

Hearthsong [Naviarhaiku100 - Winter evening]

DEADLINE: 9th December


Poem by Andrea Cecon 

Picture by Oskar Karlin 

It's getting darker [naviarhaiku100 - Winter evening]

The Inward Trek (a.k.a. Dark Winter) is my contribution to the 100th Naviar Haiku assignment. 


Tired Of Being A Drone [Naviarhaiku 057 - Shutting my eyes]

Bassling