

Haiku poetry and music.

Naviar Haiku is a music project in which artists are invited to make new music inspired by a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

Haiku is a traditional and short form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines: it’s about moments of objective experience which lead to deeper considerations about life and nature. The juxtaposition of two images or ideas and the consequent creation of a gap in the imagery gives the reader (or, in this case, the musician) the chance to complete the poem with his/her own interpretation.

This project is about expanding the meaning of a poem beyond its words, and the active role of the reader in haiku poetry, unique in the literary realm, is what inspired this project.

To find out more and participate, visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/


Naviar Haiku Challenge 1 - 50

Naviar Haiku 013

Collection of new-ish tracks, from late '13 to present.

Mastered tracks

Playlist

Naviar Records

See video at http://youtu.be/N5R4C1d4ExA

For description of processes, see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/01/disquiet-junto-105-ice-in-glass.html

More on this 105th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/02/disquiet0105-ice2014/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Chilled [disquiet0105-ice2014]

For my reflection on the process of composing this piece, see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/02/disquiet-junto-110-celebrating-burroughs.html

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Of Leeton yesterday morn [disquiet0110-wsb100]

Humankind is noodle kind.

Track composed for the Naviar Haiku group 
Haiku by George McKim:

Sunday afternoon
The phone ringing
In a vague way

Two soundsources where used; an old bell telphone sound from Freesound.org and one of my own coilpickup recordings of the electromagnetic radiation from a smart phone

Tolling [Naviarhaiku013 Sunday afternoon]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/04/naviarhaiku-013-sunday-afternoon.html for track discussion.

Based on:

Sunday afternoon
The phone ringing
In a vague way

Haiku poem by George McKim (http://georgemckim.com)

Grr! Interrupted [Naviarhaiku 013 - Sunday afternoon]

9 49 am (NaviarHaiku013 - Sunday Afternoon)

Guitar, bass and drums played by Jason Richardson. Track inspired by a haiku poem from "Going to Mars with Maven" project.

Dust Devil [Naviarhaiku 016 - Flawless face of Rouge]

For track discussion see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/05/disquiet-junto-122-8bit-undead-et.html

More on this 122nd Disquiet Junto project — “Create music for a fake movie whose plot is ‘Poltergeist meets Wreck-It Ralph’” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/05/01/disquiet0122-8bET/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image: http://piq.codeus.net/picture/142265/a_tombstone

ET Cemetary [disquiet0122-8bET]

Welcome the forty-ninth assignment of Naviar Haiku.

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: 17th December 2014

Haiku poem by Sōseki Natsume

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

Picture by Old Mister Crow

https://www.flickr.com/photos/43181051@N00/

White Tree, Black Heart [naviarhaiku049-Over the wintry]

submitted to the Haiku poem by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
"Only in the river
 Darkness flows:
 Fireflies

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?
This is the fiftieth experiment of Naviar Haiku.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Only In The River [Naviarhaiku050 - Only In The River]

Only In The River...Naviarhaiku 050

Fireflies -Naviarhaiku 050

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/12/naviarhaiku-050-only-in-river.html for track discussion.

Darkness Flows [Naviarhaiku050 - only in the river]

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]

A mix of the tracks on BASSLING's YOUR album from 2007

Download YOUR by BASSLING

YOUR mega-mix (BASSLING'S Antipodean contribution)

A bit about Bassling's music and evolution over the last nine years

About Bassling -- a short audiobiography [disquiet0060-audiobio]

Discussion of this recording at:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2013/03/disquiet-junto-school-bus-friday-pm.html

More on this 64th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/21/disquiet0064-halflive

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

"Race you to the house" [disquiet0064-halflive]

In July 2013 I concluded a project I'd initiated to celebrate the centenary of the town of Leeton making music from sounds recorded at playgrounds. See the video showing where the different sounds were found at http://youtu.be/gr0be-5c8cI

This is my third remix from samples recorded at Leeton's sporting facility playground and the fourth remix so far. A talented Belgian's techouse remix of these sounds at http://soundcloud.com/fuzzy-wuzzy/bassling-dinosaur-park

More on this 95th Disquiet Junto project, in which musicians post recent tracks with the express purpose of getting constructive feedback, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/10/24/disquiet0095-discussamongst/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Having a Barney [disquiet0095-discussamongst]

Since the debut SHAKES in 2004 Bassling has been appealing to 'lovers of lower frequencies' with his music and experiments in various forms of sonic manipulation.

The release of YOUR in 2007 heralded an increasing interest in using acoustic sound sources to create electronic dance music, in part influenced by the opportunity to work with Western Australian artist Alan Lamb as part of the 2006 Unsound Festival.

Lamb's installation outside Wagga Wagga, known as 'The Wires', became the focus of VIBRATING STRING in 2010 and his use of piezo contact microphones became a key influence on Bassling's recent album celebrating the 2012 centenary of Leeton: FOR 100 YEARS

The 2013 album WHILE collects tracks produced for the Disquiet Junto; while the piece Reimagining The Murrumbidgee features riverside ambiance collected to create a soundtrack for an exhibition of the same name.

Download Bassling at http://bassling.bandcamp.com/

Grr! Interrupted [Naviarhaiku 013 - Sunday afternoon]

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