

Haiku poetry and music.

Naviar Haiku is a music project in which artists are invited to make new music inspired by a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

Haiku is a traditional and short form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines: it’s about moments of objective experience which lead to deeper considerations about life and nature. The juxtaposition of two images or ideas and the consequent creation of a gap in the imagery gives the reader (or, in this case, the musician) the chance to complete the poem with his/her own interpretation.

This project is about expanding the meaning of a poem beyond its words, and the active role of the reader in haiku poetry, unique in the literary realm, is what inspired this project.

To find out more and participate, visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/


Naviar Haiku Challenge 1 - 50

Naviar Haiku 014

Naviar Lab Contributions 2014

My first phone was from Entel [naviarhaiku013-Sunday afternoon]

I imagined the sun rising on an alien world and the day beginning.  Initially there are only a few things moving around, but with a few minutes life awakens and goes about its day, exploring, eating, hunting, hiding, doing what ever it does.

There are some scary things here, there are some cute things here, there are some things here.  Welcome to Tropical Hoth.


At the first sunlight

Seven happy roosters yell

A new day is here



Dawn On Tropical Hoth (Naviarhaiku 014 - At the first sunlight)

Inspired by Marios Schismenos' haiku:

At the first sunlight
Seven happy roosters yell
A new day is here

The Munificent Seven [Naviarhaiku 014 - At the first sunlight]

This is the fourteenth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 16th April and post the track on our Soundcloud group  https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

I love my little rooster [naviarhaiku014 - At the first sunlight]

Welcome to the fifteenth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 23th April and post the track on our Soundcloud group  https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by Bauke Kamstra https://twitter.com/Wyrde


pianissimo violent violin [naviarhaiku015-A piano is a conversation]

This is the seventeenth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 7th May and post a track inspired by the poem on our Soundcloud group  https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by Laura Seigle

Destroyed [naviarhaiku017 - If Build and Destroy]

Second poem from the series inspired by the works of Rabindranath Tagore.

This is the twentieth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 28st May and post a track inspired by the poem on our Soundcloud group here: https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by Kuheli S. (https://twitter.com/Bhasha_r_katha)

Picture by Brian Wolfe  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mightyboybrian)

obscurity [naviarhaiku020 - Voyage not Over]

Welcome the forty-ninth assignment of Naviar Haiku.

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: 17th December 2014

Haiku poem by Sōseki Natsume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_Sōseki

Picture by Old Mister Crow

https://www.flickr.com/photos/43181051@N00/

White Tree, Black Heart [naviarhaiku049-Over the wintry]

submitted to the Haiku poem by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
"Only in the river
 Darkness flows:
 Fireflies

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?
This is the fiftieth experiment of Naviar Haiku.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Only In The River [Naviarhaiku050 - Only In The River]

Only In The River...Naviarhaiku 050

Fireflies -Naviarhaiku 050

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/12/naviarhaiku-050-only-in-river.html for track discussion.

Darkness Flows [Naviarhaiku050 - only in the river]

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

I love my little rooster [naviarhaiku014 - At the first sunlight]

Carlos R