Recorded, mixed & mastered 26 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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For this, I started by recording two phrases into Ableton Live on a Jay Turser MG-2 “Mustang” guitar tuned to F# A# C# G# C# F. For both loops - which were different lengths - I used PitchLoop89, some compression, a warp/stretch mode and a bit of chorus. Next I used a Rogue Fretless bass and then Cherry Audio’s ARP Pro Soloist. Other items used - Live native devices and Melda plugins.

This original version of "Red Over Seventeen" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 560, Daybreak!

daybreak!
the tempest interred
in snow

by: Inoue Shiro

Inoue Shiro (1742-1812) was a doctor and poet from Nagoya.

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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Red Over Seventeen (naviarhaiku560)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02/03 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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For this, I started with a very casual absently-minded piano piece using  QuNexus, Noire Felt & Bitwig. I pulled a section of this for this Naviar Haiku and another section for this week’s Disquiet Junto. I moved an audio copy of this section to Ableton Live and added a dronish patch I put together in Vital. I added some Chow Tape Model to the piano track. That’s really it. 

This original version of "Trunk, Redeclared" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 561, stars on the pond…

stars on the pond...
again the pitter-pattering
freezing drizzle

by: Tachibana Hokushi

Tachibana Hokushi, whose real name was Tachibana Genjiro, was born in Kanazawa in 1665. Hokushi was one of Basho’s most famous students at the time, and he even accompanied the great master during part of his famous journey through the narrow roads of the North, from Kanazawa to Matsuoka.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 14 Oct 2014, Massapequa

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Trunk, Redeclared (naviarhaiku561)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02 -04 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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Process notes -
For this, I started with a very casual absently-minded piano piece using QuNexus, Noire Felt & Bitwig. I pulled a section of this - highlighting a scale including some quarter tones also making use of the flatted-fifth, (”The Devil’s Interval”), for this Disquiet Junto and another section for this week’s Naviar Haiku. Along with the piano part, I pulled into Ableton Live a resampled and stretched piece of the piano alongside a section of a SurgeXT improvisation earlier in the night.  I added some effects while in Ableton. 

Tools used - Bitwig, Ableton Live, Jasper Marsalis' Tone Resonator, Puremagnetik Pastfabric & Zerone, Surge XT, Noire piano.

Artwork/Photography -
Hampton Bays, NY 29 Mar 2015

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This original version of “Suspensory Muscle Of” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0666: Beauty and the Beast. The Assignment: We’ve hit a devilish numerical milestone. Do your thing.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 666th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beauty and the Beast — The Assignment: We’ve hit a devilish numerical milestone. Do your thing. — at https://disquiet.com/0666/

Suspensory Muscle Of  (disquiet0666)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 11 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used 3 instances of VCV Rack running Voxglitch ArpSeq within Ableton Live. In Live, I was running FL Studio with Sytrus loaded, Live's Wavetable and Arturia's Arp 2600. From about 23 minutes, I used this small section towards the end and did a bit of editing.

This original version of "So Glad To See You Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 571, Stillness.  

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.
by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Photography/visual editing by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Nov 2018, Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC, USA

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

So Glad To See You Again (naviarhaiku571)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 17 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

I read the haiku a few times and imagined a cloud of visibly cool air enveloping a warm lake, a tree and a heron. 

This original version of "Slouch Beneath The Tree With Me" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 576, Amongst The Rushes.

Amongst the rushes,
a stillness comes over us -
Heron in winter.

by: roekin

roekin is a mark of gratitude; an attribution to all that is; kin.
Dependently arising, from a life lived simply, peace+haiku is the growing collection of poetry and writings attributed to roekin.
The collection can be found at roekin.com.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 19 Nov 2017

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Slouch Beneath The Tree With Me  (naviarhaiku576)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 06 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Decaying A Little More Each Day” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

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Decaying A Little More Each Day (disquiet0684)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Tenor sax, photo theremin, reverb, echo. 

Drawing/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 9 Apr 2018, Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of “The Reason That Nobody Cares About” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0688: Sign Up. The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688

The Reason That Nobody Cares About (disquiet0688)

Edited, mixed & mastered on 03 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, samples, piano, effects. 

This piece uses a few bits of samples from Craig Smith’s Vintage Fire pack, which was taken from nitrate optical recordings from the 1930s & 40s. 

(https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/packs/27308/)

Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Aug 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of “First National” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move. The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

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First National Dander (disquiet0692)

Edited, mixed & mastered on 08 May 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synth & effects

Having worked with musicians who aren't always mindful of leaving space in their playing, I dedicate this piece to them. I drew upon that experience while creating this work.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 01 Sep 2002, Huntington Station, NY, USA. 

Shared here under Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike"

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This original version of “Stealing Third Base” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0697: First Third. The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

Stealing Third Base (disquiet0697)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 28 May 2017 & 06 Jun 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 06 Jun 2015 & 06 Jun 2025, Massapequa, NY, USA 

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This original version of “Usually May Disappear” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0701: Gap Ear. The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 701st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gap Ear — The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces — at https://disquiet.com/0701/

Usually May Disappear (disquiet0701)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 03 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 600: Thinking Of Us.

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

by: Andrea Cecon

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life… 

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper  (naviarhaiku600)

"Run here, my towhead grandchillen, and let this geezer dandle you upon his knee." - Lester Bangs

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 04 & 05 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, effects

The first sentence in Lester Bangs' posthumous collection "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" is also the first sentence in the essay with the same title. While ostensibly a record review of the Count Five, it's more accurately a work of fiction. Since the early '90s, I haven't read many complete books beyond instructional ones—instead, I graze for inspiration and create my own works. So I pulled out a Kindle app, scrolled until I found a past favorite and here I am.

What I tried to do is capture all sorts of miscommunication—be it literally Lester imagining himself a grandfather (something I don't believe he ever became), or the way he writes in a slang he probably did not speak, in character. Or my own generation (X) trying to figure out the noise of the generation prior ("who cares about Woodstock when there was Love, garage punks, Pet Sounds and the VU?" was my way of thinking at approximately 20). Or how some of this has not aged well since Lester wrote it, and I know he, being of some conscience and allowing himself revisions and growth might approach it differently now. In the same book, read “The White Noise Supremacists” to experience him struggling with it an emerging skinhead culture. Then, perhaps, how people younger or otherwise different than myself would react to this writer.

The title is an obvious nod at Lester’s character's stolen vernacular and also a reference to an anonymous woman long ago who left a message on an answering machine of my co-improviser where the outgoing message was a snippet of some improv we’d done. She left a message that it was “ugly music.” 

The synths I used here are; Cherry Audio's ARP 2600 & Minimoog emulations; Arturia's DX7; Korg's M1; and the Puremagnetik Klome through a Moogerfooger filter and other things for the textural, almost percussive stuff.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of “You Some Ugly Child” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start. The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

You Some Ugly Child (disquiet0705)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 24-26 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Love On A Whole Heat” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 603: Insect Tremolo.

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

by: Kogetsu Eguchi

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo 
period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book *Tōke shunchō*.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 27 Jul 2019, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2019, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Another version of this is available - raw from my iPad - if you subscribe to my Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/love-on-whole-24-135024235

I suspect that I will re-use and remix the entire recording for use on a future album, tentatively titled My Head's In The Hatbox.

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Love On A Whole Heat (naviarhaiku603)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 31 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Process notes - 

In Nov 2020, I started a video series that was mostly small electronic instruments and guitar pedals filmed from above. When I first started the series, I recorded a few test takes and I decided to use one of these as the basis for an entire album I plan to release this year and currently is in progress. This one was (probably) a Korg Volca FM, an old Electro-Harmonix Microsynth & a TC Electronic Nova.

Besides this recording, I also will use different synths to layer onto the original recording. For this piece, I am using some wavetable-layered-samples (as kicks, more or less), the Cherry Audio Chroma and the Arturia Mini. Each one of these I generally increased the resolution/speed of short midi phrases I wrote. This broke down some of the effects I had and did a few nutty things but I really liked how it fit right into the piece.

There was a sweet accident of feedback in the DAW that I captured and layered on near the end, too.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Electronic Reality Appliance  (disquiet0709)” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked. The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters — at Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked – Disquiet.

Electronic Reality Appliance  (disquiet0709)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Sax, samples, effects.

This original version of "Slop Sink Sings Hip Pop” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 609: Revealing In The Dark.

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 02 Oct 2020, Upper East Side, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Slop Sink Sings Hip Pop (naviarhaiku609)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 11 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synth, samples, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Oct 2020, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “How Monotonous, Herr Pencil” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0715: Err Apparent. The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/

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How Monotonous, Herr Pencil (disquiet0715)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 12 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, samples, effects.

This original version of "Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 610: Dropped Glass.

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

by: Darren Bourne

halF unusuaL is "an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity."

You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2bmRZgyBACkW6lnkTWHSw , and check out his website - https://www.halfunusual.com to find out more about his publications and merchandise.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Oct 2020, Manhattan, NYC, USA

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For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

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Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit (naviarhaiku610)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 24 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Amplitude Of Acoustic Vibratio” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 612: Faring Over The Lake.

faring over the lake
drawing the light
an autumn butterfly

by: Yatsuka Ishihara

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Oct 2015, Central Park, Manhattan, NYC, USA

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Amplitude Of Acoustic Vibration  (naviarhaiku612)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 25 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Oct 2015, Central Park, Manhattan, NYC, USA

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This original version of “You Dance Like A Paranoid Old Goat” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0717: Generation Gambit. The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.

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You Dance Like A Paranoid Old Goat  (disquiet0717)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 09 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 04 Oct 2025, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of “Obey Your Mistress Bonnie” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0719: Riding on the Metronome. The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/

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Obey Your Mistress Bonnie  (disquiet0719)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 10 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, effects.

This original version of "Sing Me A Song, Mister Weaselman” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 614: The Coming Of Autumn.

The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly
by: Kaya Shirao

Kaya Shirao was born in 1738 in Fukagawa, Edo, now part of Tokyo.

He ran a school in Edo during Spring and Autumn, but in Summer and Winter, he would move to the countryside to teach thousands of aspiring poets from throughout the Shinano province (now Nagano Prefecture). He's considered one of the first established haikai writers to help spread cultural forms from national to regional urban centers.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 04 Oct 2025, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

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Sing Me A Song, Mister Weaselman (naviarhaiku614)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, field recordings, effects.

This original version of "An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 616: Whenever We Meet.

whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts

by: Tanaka Hiroaki

Tanaka Hiroaki (1959–2004) was a Japanese poet from Osaka. A student of Hatano Sōha, he published many of his works in the journal Ao 青 (“Blue”), of which he became editor in 1979. In 2000, he founded his own journal, Yū ゆう.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 19 Oct 2025, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

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For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume (naviarhaiku616)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 23 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, field recordings, effects

This piece incorporates a recording by Philip Goddard - https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/817001/

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 23 Oct 2025, Midtown, NYC, NY, USA

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This original version of “Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered. The Assignment: Play along with a storm

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721

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Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot (disquiet0721)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 29 Oct & 01 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, samples, effects.

This original version of "Go Ahead, Ernie” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 617: An Autumn Nightfall

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Oct 2025, Massapequa train station, Massapequa, NY, USA

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For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Go Ahead, Ernie (naviarhaiku617)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered in 1996, & on 04 Nov 2019 & 14 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Tape, time & effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 02 Oct 2009, microscope, Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of “Audio Hog Rubber” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

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Audio Hog Rubber (disquiet0724)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 16 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, effects.

This original version of "If We Met Under Different Chirographs” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 619: Almost Black.

almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes

by: Masaoka Shiki

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, painting 2017, photography 2021, Massapequa, NY, USA

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If We Met Under Different Chirographs (naviarhaiku619)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 26 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, effects.

This original version of "Head Inoperative” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 621: Deutzia In Full White.

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

by: Ikenishi Gonsui

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.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 25 Oct 2025, Grand Central Station, NYC, NY, USA

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Head Inoperative (naviarhaiku621)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered in 27 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Sample instrument & effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 25 Oct 2025, Grand Central Station, NYC, NY, USA

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This original version of “To The Restricted Limits Of Some Regular Pursuit” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0726: Work It The Assignment: Chord of Omnis. The Assignment: Make music with a browser-based Omnichord as your sole sound source.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 726th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chord of Omnis — The Assignment: Make music with a browser-based Omnichord as your sole sound source — at https://disquiet.com/0726/.

Discussion at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0726-chord-of-omnis/ 

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To The Restricted Limits Of Some Regular Pursuit (disquiet0726)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 01 Oct 2019 & 18 Dec 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, effects.

This original version of "Mountain Died Quietly” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 624: A Quiet Cabin.

A quiet cabin;
hunting milkcaps, I was soon
lost among the pines

by: Kagami Shikō

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 28 Jan 2009, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Music & art © 2009, 2019, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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Mountain Died Quietly  (naviarhaiku624)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered 18/19 Dec 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Samples, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 16 Dec 2025, East 70th Street, NYC, NY, USA

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This original version of “Turning Into Jerky” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0729: Community Remix (Nina). The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago.

This contains material from a recorded performance of “Nina” by Hans Kindler (1892 – 1949). https://archive.org/details/78_nina_hans-kindler-g-b-pergolesi_gbia0055100a

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 729th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Community Remix (Nina) — The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago — at https://disquiet.com/0729/.

Discussion at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0726-chord-of-omnis/ 

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Turning Into Jerky (disquiet0729)

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