Naviar Lab Contributions 2018

All submissions to Haiku 254:

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/14/naviarhaiku254-my-soul-is-the-wind/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- Publish your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku145)”

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcast and monthly free (pay-what-you-want)compilation. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #254: My soul is the wind / Dashing down fields of Autumn: / O, too swift to sing.

For many of us the Spring season has finally arrived, so this week I selected a haiku by Zen Buddhist master Soen Nakagawa, mostly known for being a seminal figure in spreading interest in Zen to the West. 

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



Deadline: 4th April 2018

Poem by Soen Nakagawa https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/nakagawa.html

Picture by Sergei Akulich https://unsplash.com/@sakulich

Easter Fools [naviarhaiku221 - Spring approaches]

Deadline: 11th April 2018

Poem by Jason Richardson http://highku.blogspot.co.uk

Picture by Casey Horner https://unsplash.com/@mischievous_penguins

Seth in motion [naviarhaiku222 - Ghostly melody]

Deadline: 2nd May 2018

Poem by Masaoka Shiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki

Picture by Andrea Boldizsar https://unsplash.com/@andreaboldizsar

Geesebumps [naviarhaiku225 - The wild geese take flight]

Poem by Baijaku http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/hearnandhaiku.html

Picture by Derek Arguello https://unsplash.com/@arguellod22

Pining for the pines [naviarhaiku234 - when the cicadas cease]

Takahama Kyoshi was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was the editor of the haiku magazine Hototogisu (previously edited by Shiki), where he promoted a more traditional style of haiku, as opposed to other popular schools which did not follow the pattern of seventeen syllables at that time. Kyoshi also highlighted the symbolic function of the kigo (the season word), even though the more modern trends were already tending towards season-less haiku.

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

Deadline: 1st August 2018

haiku by Kyoshi Takahama http://www.merchantsofair.com/a-small-neat-journal/kyoshi-takahama-a-japanese-literary-icon

picture by Aral Tasher https://unsplash.com/@araltasher

Two shed lights [naviarhaiku238 - Two lights of the village]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
254 week haiku
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Waldorf Blofeld + guitar pedal efect TC Hall of Fame - several lines

2018-11-15

My soul is the wind (Naviarhaiku 254)

Music inspired by this haiku by Lewis Grandison Alexander:

"My soul is the wind
dashing down fields of Autumn
O, too swift to sing"

and this poem by Pablo Neruda (that you can hear faintly in the background):

"...
Escucha como el viento
me llama galopando
para llevarme lejos.

Con tu frente en mi frente,
con tu boca en mi boca,
atados nuestros cuerpos
al amor que nos quema,
deja que el viento pase
sin que pueda llevarme.

Deja que el viento corra
coronado de espuma,
que me llame y me busque
galopando en la sombra,
mientras yo, sumergido
bajo tus grandes ojos,
por esta noche sola
descansaré, amor mío."
"


Photo by Annie Spratt
(Peak District National Park, Bakewell, United Kingdom)

Composed and performed by DD, Thursday Nov 15th 2018
Synthesizers, wind field recording, cello and string orchestra samples.
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/14/naviarhaiku254-my-soul-is-the-wind/

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The Wind Down The Fields of Autumn (naviarhaiku254)

Yes, there are supposed to be snap, crackle and pops in this track.
This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
254 week haiku
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My Soul Is The Wind Dashing Down Fields Of Autumn - O Too Swift To Sing (Naviarhaiku 254)

Made for Naviar Records' 254th Kaiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/14/naviarhaiku254-my-soul-is-the-wind/

Soul wind [naviarhaiku254]

Despite being mostly known for his poetry, Lewis Grandison Alexander (1900-1945) was also an active actor, director of plays, and costume designer. He was an important member of the Harlem Renaissance: an intellectual, social, and artistic movement that aimed to celebrate African-American arts, which took place in New York in the 1920s. 

Lewis Grandison Alexander started writing poetry at 17, specializing in Japanese forms. About haiku poetry, he once wrote: “Its real value is not in its physical directness but in its psychological indirectness—not in what is said but what is suggested—written in the spaces between the lines.”

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

Deadline: 21st November 2018

haiku by Lewis Grandison Alexander http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/alexanderl/

picture by Neil Thomas https://unsplash.com/@neilmarkthomas

I've got wind [naviarhaiku254 - my soul is the wind]

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

I've got wind [naviarhaiku254 - my soul is the wind]

Carlos R