Recorded, mixed & mastered 30 Nov 2023, 01 Dec 2023 & 03 Jul 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

This started life in Nov 2023 along with Disquiet Junto 0622, which is to say a recording of acoustic guitar I made in 1988. (https://ift.tt/MwTqgeO)

Tools used - Ableton Live, a handful of Max for Live devices, K-Devices Shaper, AudioDamage Fluid, AudioDamage Ratshack Reverb, AudioDamage AdVerb, Monolake PitchLoop89 & Ableton native devices, along with iZotope Ozone 9 for mastering.

This original version of "The Distorted People That I Know" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 548, The Sound Of Silence

The sound of silence
is all the instruction
you’ll get

by: Jack Kerouac

Like other “Beat Poets”, Jack Kerouac was attracted to Eastern philosophy, perception, and poetry. Together with Ginsberg and Whalen, he helped “Americanise” the haiku form and introduce it to a wider audience outside of Japan.

“The American Haiku is not exactly the Japanese Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined to seventeen syllables but since the language structure is different I don’t think American Haikus (short three-line poems intended to be completely packed with Void of Whole) should worry about syllables because American speech is something again…bursting to pop.
Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.”
(Kerouac)

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

The Distorted People That I Know (naviarhaiku548)

#4271 (94.16% 265 left): Aug. 24, 2025: By the help of an image (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVES ***

" Gentleness, carried on 4,536 leaves of sound "

*** "PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVE" COMPLETE WORK ALBUM SERIES START ***

VOLUME1-3 just released! 

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The Complete Works of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Vol.1-3
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VOLUME1-3 just released! 

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spotify:
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Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-3/1834912123

iTunes: purchase Album
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AWA:
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by the help of an image - #4271 (94R16 percent 265 left) by chair house 250824

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

as soggy neutrons - naviarhaiku608

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses/

not yet bent-naviarhaiku608

Anarchic_Naviarhaiku608

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

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

SONG 118 - NaviarHaiku608 - Young Grasses

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

by: Tagami Kikusha

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

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 119 - NaviarHaiku609 - Revealing in the Dark

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass/

Portrait of Philip Glass by Graziano Origa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip-glass-by-origa.jpg

philip [ naviarhaiku610 ]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 610:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Bretagne, France, 2018)

dropped glass - Naviarhaiku610

Little song for Natsume Seibi Haiku:

"Half-asleep eyes
open to a dreamlike world
of blossoms"


Half-asleep blossoms (naviarhaiku611)

I’ve been exploring the drone possibilities of the ronroco. Although it’s a high-pitched instrument with picked strings that produce short, percussive transients, it can be layered and softly strummed to create a surprisingly sustained sound.

In this piece, I combine those textures with my own bowed upright bass and generous layers of long reverbs,trying to create an all acoustic, atmospheric soundscape.

photo by 67street. art

Created and shared for
Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory
@disquiet

Dense Fog Night Drone - disquiet0716

Making music is about being surprised.
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The Distorted People That I Know (naviarhaiku548)

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