

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 Lab Contributions 2014

Naviar Haiku 040

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

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]

A song inspired by the following haiku by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet Junto)

"There's a lifetime in
between the first and second
click of the door's lock"

Recorded with Ableton Live and written in 90 minutes.

This track is a part of both Disquiet Junto and Naviar Lab.
More info:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquiet0145-theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
http://geirt.com/

Lee Rosevere - There's A Lifetime [Naviarhaiku040/disquiet0145 - Theresalifetimein]

This project kinda mutated from my original intention. I recorded the sound of me unlocking various doors at home and then loaded these into a ESX-1 sampler. I originally intended to produce something sparse and minimal but the urge to tweak got the better of me me and I ended up with something busier and more rhythmic. It's pretty much a one take jam with a little bit of post editing.


A song inspired by the following haiku by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet Junto)

"There's a lifetime in
between the first and second
click of the door's lock"

Recorded with Ableton Live and written in 90 minutes.

This track is a part of both Disquiet Junto and Naviar Lab.
More info:
soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:
disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquie…theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
geirt.com/

AmbientNaviarhaiku040-There's a Lifetimeambientinstrumentalpianohaikudisquiet0145-theresalifetimein


Locket (Disquiet0145-There's a life time in)(Naviarhaiku040-There's a lifetime)

**Production Notes**

I used the same sample L-A-J did (sagetyrtle - door.wav, www.freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/32938) and treated it with Ambience V0.3. These resulting granular sounds were routed in Abletons Resonators so I finally had some pads from a door. 

Next were some melodic bits and pieces. I heavily used the Rhythmic Robot Sample  Library for these. Added some long and overboardings delays and EQs. That‘s all, folks! 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0145: Locked Haiku**
 
The Assignment: Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse.

This week’s project means participating in another music community’s project. There’s a wonderful group called Naviar Haiku, at naviarlab.tumblr.com, that does weekly projects of music inspired by haiku poems. For the group’s current project, its 40th, I wrote the haiku. It reads:

There’s a lifetime in
 between the first and second 
clicks of the door’s lock

The instructions are simple:
Step 1: Please produce a short piece of music “inpsired by” the above poem.

Step 2: Post the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and to the Naviar Haiku group, which is at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory
Include the first line of the haiku as the title of the track.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow participants.

Bonus Step: Include the sound of a door lock in your piece.

Length: Your finished work should be between one and four minutes long.

(...)

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/  Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:  http://geirt.com/  

Doors Wide Shut [disquiet0145-theresalifetimein]

The fortieth assignment of Naviar Haiku is a poem by writer/editor Marc Weidenbaum. Marc is also the creator of Disquiet Junto, a music project which I guess most of you already know.

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: 15th October 2014

Haiku by Marc Weidenbaum  http://disquiet.com

Picture by Geir Tønnessen http://geirt.com

Life clicks [naviarhaiku040 - There's a lifetime in]

Notes:
All tracks have "Events" that suggest space in between.

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquiet0145-theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:

http://geirt.com/

In Between (disquiet0145-theresalifetimein;Naviarhaiku040-There's a lifetime in)

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.

Life clicks [naviarhaiku040 - There's a lifetime in]

Carlos R