Love it Brian! What an awesome Jamuary! Congrats :)

This Machine Builds Fascists is about how I feel capitalism has led to a sense of global insecurity which has resulted in a surge of right wing populist thought which verges on fascism.

We made a machine, made a machine
A marvellous modern machine
It roars and it screams, roars and it screams
Gobbling oil and spitting out steam
What does it do? What does it do?
Tell us all, what does it do?
It strikes a spark that lights a fuse

All you gathered in this place
Lift your gaze towards the light
All you gathered in this place
Lift your gaze towards the light
And we need never live in darkness
While our engines make their mark upon the night


The smoke and the sigh, the screech and the sound
The grind of the gears spinning round
The gnashing of teeth, the rumbling ground
The echoes resound and resound
Rattling nerves, rattling bone
A treacherous shaking of stone
To bring down everything you’ve known

All you gathered in this place
Raise your hands to feel the heat
All you gathered in this place
Raise your hands to feel the heat
And you can dream about the feeling
While you’re shivering and reeling in the street


We made a machine, made a machine
A marvellous modern machine
It roars and it screams, roars and it screams
Gobbling oil and spitting out steam
What does it do? What does it do?
Tell us all, what does it do?
It strikes a spark that lights a fuse

This Machine Builds Fascists

VERWOBEN

This is the first of series of soundtracks that are themes to made up titles for radio plays. The melody for this track was made in Fugue Machine. There are two instances of the Hillman synth app panned left and right. Each of these are going through an effect called Speaker. Grand Finale is being used for mastering. 
The title was inspired by a recent visit to London as I walked through a small City of London burial ground and suddenly found that the one of many people who were buried there was William Blake (and indeed John Bunyan).

Radiophonia 1 - The Death of William Blake

two seahorses
dancing in seagrass
slivers of sunlight

Corine is an author, haiku poet, publisher, visual artist, designer, and animal lover who’s been participating in our Haiku challenges for the last three years. You can find more about her poetry and music on her Soundcloud and Facebook profiles

Two seahorses dancing (naviarhaiku516)

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Vernal Seascape (naviarhaiku525)

Day 31 of #jamuary2024
This year I’m using prompts and tools I supply for the Music Production Club. Join the Club and get in on the prompts! Https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Day 31 The End

Created in Cubase 12 with Native Instruments Kontakt VSTs and Dawesome Love, mastered with Ozone 10.

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 528:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku528-whats-a-month-for-the-sea/

Photo by zenbytes (Costa Vicentina, Portugal 2013)

waves touch my feet - Naviarhaiku 528

"Time waits for everyone"

Music by Stu King
Gretsch Streamliner
Boss RC5 Loop station
Hologram Microcosm
Korg Monologue
Digital Delay
Reverb
Mixed in Cubase

What's A Month?

What's A Month? (naviarhaiku528)

Created with Make Noise Strega and 0-CTRL, Guitar, Native Instruments, Dawesome, Cubase.

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 531:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku531-the-first-thunder/

Photo by zenbytes (Dangast, Germany, 2014)

shake the doll stand - Naviarhaiku 531

Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.

Takashi Matsumoto was a Japanese poet originally from Tokyo. Born into a family deeply interested in nō theater, he also devoted himself to it in his youth until 1921, when he came into contact with Hototogisu magazine and haiku poetry. Beginning the following year, Matsumoto became a student of Takahama Kyoshi. In 1946, he launched the magazine Fue 笛 ('The Flute').


Haiku by Takashi Matsumoto

Picture by Rodion Kutsaiev

Submission deadline: 27th March 2024

TO PARTICIPATE
 
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku533)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title.

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.
 
For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Changing Its Colors (naviarhaiku533)

Step 1: This project is inspired by a brief poem by Yoko Ono, in which she wrote, “Take the sound of the stone aging.” Consider that sound.

Step 2: Record your impression of the sound of stone aging.

Background: This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit 60 years ago, back in 1964.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

stone piece [disquiet0643]

Musician, Producer, and Educator from New York. 
Host of the Music Production Podcast. 
Author of 5-Minute Music Producer. 
Berklee Online teacher. 
Ableton Certified Trainer.

Day 31 The End

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