For this project I decided to use the patterns from the censored page as a guidance for a drum track which I used in the background. Assumed that each ink blob was a beat, and the length of the ink blob determined the length of the beat. I then proceeded to find a couple of major chords which sounded slightly "guitar hero", and added a bit of effects and a synth soundscape to help out.  
More on this 83rd Disquiet Junto project, in which a page from recently declassified documents related to NSA collection of telephone metadata records is treated as a graphically notated score, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/08/01/disquiet0083-redacted/

Image found via twitter.com/shearm and twitter.com/glennf.

Full document at:

http://goo.gl/wVydxR

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Your secrets are mine now [disquiet0083-redacted]

As a Nashville-born transplant to Rochester, New York, Taylor Wray has found short-form poetry to be the perfect antidote to the long, cold winters. Taylor is the author of two collections of haiku and senryū: WAITING FOR THE MOON and SINKING AND RESURFACING (both from Inspirebytes Omni Media).

For more of Taylor’s poetry, follow him on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at @inthreelines, or visit https://linktr.ee/inthreelines.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st August 2022

haiku by Taylor Wray https://linktr.ee/inthreelines.

picture by Jakub Kriz https://unsplash.com/@jakubkriz\

Dream light [naviarhaiku451 - first light]

The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.
Ryōkan Taigu was a Japanese poet and calligrapher who lived during the Edo period. A Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit, he spent most of his time writing poetry, calligraphy, and communing with nature. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 21st September 2022

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://allpoetry.com/Taigu-Ryokan

picture by Corsin Taisch https://unsplash.com/@cors123

The thief's behind [naviarhaiku454 - The thief left it behind]

the bracing east wind
cold as a nordic summer;
kicking up white sand

Colin Myles is the author of three haiku poetry collections on Amazon: Scarlet Skyline, Haiku Moments and The Barren Wind. You can find out more about him on his website, Twitter and Instagram pages.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 12th October 2022

haiku by Colin Myles https://twitter.com/colinmyles

picture by Mihail Macri https://unsplash.com/@macrimihail

Wind with Braces [naviarhaiku457 - the bracing east wind]

naviarhaiku476 – Birds in a bare tree
Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…

John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in three improvising duos: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland) and ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott).

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 22nd February 2023

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Robbin Huang https://unsplash.com/@ikarishinjigao

Barely a Bird [naviarhaiku476 - Birds in a bare tree]

Jennifer Doty was born and raised in the beautiful wilds of the Ozarks in southern Missouri. She was taught to value literature, music, the arts and spirituality. Her upbringing encouraged creativity, open mindedness and self-expression.

Always attracted to the outdoors, she draws much inspiration for her poetry from nature, as well as human nature. Her interest in poetry and writing as a form of self-expression began in her early teens, only recently is she beginning to publicly share her work.

Jennifer obtained a B.S. in Child, Adult and Family Services and an M.S. in Health Sciences. She has always had a passion for helping others. She raised 2 children and currently spends time helping with her four grandchildren. She enjoys family, writing, travel, photography, painting and working on improving her guitar skills.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

 

Deadline: 22nd March 2023

haiku by Jennifer Doty https://twitter.com/jenncord

picture by Elton Sa https://unsplash.com/@bigeruta

Shadow filler [naviarhaiku480 - filling my shadows]

Welcome to the twenty-first experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 4th June and post a track inspired by the poem on our Soundcloud group here: https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by Farah/A Celestial Delirium (http://acelestialdelirium.tumblr.com)

Picture by Aaron (https://www.flickr.com/photos/_aaron)

Slippery road [naviarhaiku021 - Silence never stops]

naviarhaiku491 – morning glow
morning glow
buttercups flutter
at the forest’s edge

Catherine LoFrumento lives in Connecticut with her husband and fur babies. Her poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals and anthologies including: Cattails, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, bottle rockets, Chrysanthemum, Hedgerow Journal, Three Line Poetry, and Poetry Quarterly. You can find more of her work on Twitter: @Catherin03 and on Instagram: @Poetrycatt

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 7th June 2023

Haiku by Catherine LoFrumento https://twitter.com/Catherin03

Picture by Alessandro Capuzzi https://unsplash.com/@aleeecap

Morning, sunshine [naviarhaiku491 - morning glow]

A contemporary of Basho, Den Sutejo was the eldest daughter of a distinguished samurai family living in the mountainous area northwest of Kyoto. After her husband’s death, she became a nun and spent the final years of her life as a Zen devotee.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 15th November 2023

Haiku by: Den Sutejo [Translated by Makoto Ueda] https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html

Picture by Gariele Wright https://unsplash.com/photos/closeup-photo-of-pink-petaled-flower-uSkJ0rk9OBE

Mountain of Wind [naviarhaiku514 - gale in the mountains]

This week’s assignment is a haiku by Jack Kerouac, who died 45 years ago yesterday.

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: 29th October 2014

Haiku poem by Jack Kerouac

Picture by Jyrki Salmi  https://www.flickr.com/photos/salman2000

Kerouac's Missing Kick [naviarhaiku042 - Missing a kick]

The forty-forth assignment is a haiku poem by the greatest master of haiku poetry.

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: 12th November 2014

Haiku poem by Matsuo Bashō

Picture by Jimmy Cardosi  https://www.flickr.com/photos/silveraquarius

Pipes of piss [naviarhaiku044 - Piping autumn wind]

This is the fifteenth experiment of Naviar Tacet. Artists are to create a soundtrack for the assigned silent video.

Deadline: Wednesday 24th December

When you post the track, please include the term (Naviartacet015-Calming Sea Waves) in the title and as tag.

Post the track on our Soundcloud group: https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

This work is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 

You can download the video here
http://orangehd.com/blog/calming-sea-waves

Southside of the Seaside  [Naviartacet015-Calming Sea Waves]

The cormorant in the forest;
The cherry blossoms
Along the evening path.



Tan Taigi was a haiku poet of the Edo period. He was a wanderer for most of his life and admired by Yosa Buson for his ability to transcend his eclectic and unconventional lifestyle with sublime poetry.

haiku by Tan Taigi

picture by Redd F

Bloody Cormorant [naviarhaiku539 - The cormorant in the forest]

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson’s most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson’s haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito

picture by freestocks

Weighing Paper [naviarhaiku587 - paperweights]

rising sun
and nothing else –
misty sea!

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

haiku by Inoue Shiro

picture by Vlad Kostiuk

Sunrising [naviarhaiku589 - rising sun]

Here’s the haiku of the week, written by Max St. John; Max was inspired by playing on the beach with his four year-old son, on a cold morning on the south coast of England.



DEADLINE: 18th May
Poem by maxstjohn http://www.maxstjohn.com 

Picture by ignacio sagone https://www.flickr.com/photos/ignaciosagone 

On the mend [Naviarhaiku123 - In his eyes]

Thought about a pattern for tidying up my recording studio. This is the music I go about using when cleaning my stuff. 

More on this 245th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0245/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/make-some-practical-music-disquiet-junto-project-0245/4445

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by jurek d. and is used thanks to Flicker and a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/npLwcU

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Tidy [disquiet0245 - Practical Music]

Approached this one as a classic mirror pattern figure on the track placement front, using Garageband. I placed a couple of static samples across the entire duration of the track. Then identified those samples that would feature at the beginning and at the end, at the same "distance" from each point. Applied a few effects on each track to ensure there was resonance and chaos. 

Samples courtesy of Mystified, aka frequent Disquiet Junto participant Thomas Park:
 
http://archive.org/details/Junto_23_Samples
 
More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
 


my drone ate my homework [Disquiet0023-palindrone]

One traveller,
Wakes another traveller,
At the sight of the sea.

The Haiku Foundation is always a rich source of inspiration. I immediately fell in love with this poem by Choshi, included in R.H. Blyth “Japanese Satirical Verses“. For those of you who are not familiar with the difference between haiku and senryu: the former tends to be about nature, while the latter refers to some aspect of human nature or emotions. Their structure is similar.

I couldn’t find any information on Choshi online, so here’s what R.H. Blyth said about our haiku of the week:

“We have here a clear example of the difference between haiku and senryu. The sight of the sea in the early morning makes someone wake up a fellow traveller. But what remains in our minds is not the sea glittering in the morning sunshine, but the shaking and awakening of the traveller by someone who hardly knows him from Adam. We feel the kinship of the men through that one touch of nature.”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 24th February 2021

haiku by Choshi  https://thehaikufoundation.org/book-of-the-week-senryu-japanese-satirical-verses/

picture by Pawel Nolbert https://unsplash.com/@hellocolor

Troubled travel [naviarhaiku372 - One traveller]

A drummer and a thief

25 years of drumming experience, interested in on-line projects to collaborate.
Percussion, electronic drum programming, acoustic drums.

Carlos R

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