Bowed basses and cellos (harmonics, fx and sustained notes)
Composed and performed by DD in Paris 27/March/2025.

Inspired by this haiku

Fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

Poem by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Casey Horner

@naviar-records
@ray_cobley

Fog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/

Thank you Marco.

Fog dissolves to rain (naviarhaiku586)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 27 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Fieldscaper/samples, Effects, Synths

This original version of "Spinning On A Breezes" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 586: Fog Dissolves To Rain. 

This contains elements of two of my earlier "raw" releases - 
Raw: "My Fur Again" (02 Sep 2019)
https://youtu.be/a89gDMYrkqg

Raw: "Laugh Picnic" (31 Aug 2019)
https://youtu.be/YEJomQKEUy4 

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

by: Raymond Cobley

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 08 Oct 2019, Manhattan, NYC, USA in the vicinity of 1st Ave and 73rd St. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Spinning On A Breezes (naviarhaiku586)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 586:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Sibratsgfäll, Austria, 2021)

Water drops 4.wav by Zaziesound -- https://freesound.org/s/496303/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

fog dissolves - Naviarhaiku586

This track was created in response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

"fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills"
 
Raymond Cobley (@ray_cobley) is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

haiku by Raymond Cobley
extract of picture by Inggrid Koe
 
Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

showing (naviarhaiku586)



Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 586.
Sur un haïku de Raymond Cobley:

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills 

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Droplets on the hills

three 90s jungle beats, all slowed to 128bpm, switch out across two channels

morse code plays the phrase "fog dissolves to rain" on ableton's "EFX Small Cymbal" rack

four granular soundbeds

a melody i played through three sampled instruments (upright bass, piano, guitarophone)

one atmospheric drone from the "though-forms" patreon

mary says "maybe tomorrow"

[naviarhaiku586] clear the vista

Although this track was made as a response to:

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Naviar haiku challenge 598, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

It strayed a bit; In the very early stages while I was designing a sound for "Walking in sunshine", everything is assembled in virtual modular using VCV Rack, I played a simple phrase that suggested that it wanted to be a sequence, divergence begins. Probably because I had another project in mind  the original phrase and subsequent sequence development borrowed quite heavily from Steve Reich, I split off that version and pulled back a bit for this track although the roots are still there hence the minimalism tag. 

With the sequences complete I went back and designed an intro, not quite a typhoon but serves as as opening. And an outro; not really sunshine but while experimenting with modulated frequency modulation I unexpectedly found a sound I'd been hunting for a couple of weeks ago, it made a nice contrast so I kept it.

With all the elements in place I set up and did a one take multi-track live improvised mix, I also manipulated a couple of probability parameters, other modulations were built into the patch. 

A couple of eternal effects:
There is a final layer of reverb wash derived from the sunshine element made with SpaceBlender from Soundtoys and included in the performance via recorded parameter automation.      

I added a little bit of tape echo, Stardust 201 from Cherry Audio, to the sequences.
 
After all the usual blending a tweaking I added The Free Vinyl plugin from iZotope, felt like it would fit on the opening of the track.

After The Typhoon - (naviarhaiku - 598)

the unveiling

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure.

DARK AMBIENT - BAD SEED

T - SHOEGAZE

My music asks listeners to be like dreamers uncovering hidden patterns in passing clouds. Support me @ patreon.com/blisterpop

Spinning On A Breezes (naviarhaiku586)

Jimmy Lem