Naviar Lab Contributions 2020

not much to say, found a suitable middle eastern percussion set, a synth sound and added a couple of effects. 

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Palmyra Palmyra [disquiet0108-freebassel]

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]

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]

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

naviarhaiku537

Deep in the mountains -
falling into my heart
autumn streams

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.

Haiku by Shinkei
Picture by Zoe

Submission deadline: 24th April 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 (naviarhaiku536)”
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

Falling Into My Heart

Falling Into My Heart (naviarhaiku537)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

naviarhaiku539

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

Submission deadline: 8th May 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 (naviarhaiku539)”
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

The Cherry Blossoms

The Cherry Blossoms (naviarhaiku539)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 540

Face of the winter pond
doesn't reflect
even a leaf...

Nakamura Kusatao was born in Xiamen (China) in 1901 and moved to Japan in 1904.

He was influenced by contemporary Western philosophy, mostly Friedrich Nietzsche, and his poetry focused on themes of life and humanity. Together with Shuson Kato and Ishida Hakyo, Nakamura Kusatao was a member of the “Human Exploration School”, a group of poets who used haiku to explore and highlight "how human beings should live".

Nakamura Kusatao launched the magazine Banryoku in 1946, and his major collections include Chōshi, Hi no shima, Biden, and Toki.

haiku by Nakamura Kusatao

picture by Miguel Alcântara

Submission deadline: 15th May 2024

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Reflect

Reflect (naviarhaiku540)

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]

sleeping, waking
the emptiness
of my mosquito net

Chiyo-ni was born in the Ishikawa Prefecture in 1703. She began writing haiku poetry when she was 6, and her ability was soon recognized even though haiku by women were often dismissed and ignored at that time. Chiyo-ni was strongly influenced by Basho’s poetry (probably because her teachers were his students), but developed her own unique style.

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

Deadline: 25th March 2020

haiku by Fukuda Chiyo-ni http://haikukan.city.hakusan.ishikawa.jp/english/about/index.html

picture by Ömürden Cengizhk https://unsplash.com/@omurden\

Walksleeper [naviarhaiku324 - sleeping, walking]

meandering through the city
cars around
infinite game

This week I’m happy to present a haiku by Bartosz Leszczyński, a musician and regular participant in the Haiku challenge as Oxebe.

“Bartosz is a self-taught music enthusiast from Poland fascinated with synthesizers and creating sounds and timbres. His passion is to form rich, evolving and complex sounds and textures. His musical path began from playing the piano, and piano sound can be often heard in his music. He also uses electric guitar and tries to capture sounds that can be shaped by tweaking guitar effects beyond limits. Through the music he intends to express wistfulness, incertitude and the feel of distant and unbounded space.”



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

Deadline: 15th April 2020

haiku by Bartosz Leszczyński https://soundcloud.com/oxebe

picture by Julian Hochgesang https://unsplash.com/@julianhochgesang

Wander [naviarhaiku327 - meandering through the city]

A wild sea-
In the distance over Sado
The Milky Way.

For this week’s challenge I chose a poem by the greatest master of haiku: Matsuo Bashō.

During the journey that would result in his masterpiece, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Basho stopped at Izumo Point on the Japan Sea and gazed out to Sado Island which, at that time, was infamous as a place of exile.

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

Deadline: 27th May 2020

haiku by Matsuo Basho https://web.archive.org/web/20110303133453/http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/hp/basho/00bashohaiku.htm

picture by Erwin Doorn https://unsplash.com/@erwindoorn

Sea You [naviarhaiku333 - A Wild Sea]

abandoned farmhouse
off the snow-piled roof
gusts of ghosts

Michael Dudley (michaeljdudley.com) was born in downtown Toronto and reared in the Greater Toronto Area.   He later lived and worked for 35 years in rural Southwestern Ontario. From May 2018 until June 2020 he continuously travelled.  He is the father of three adults and the author of numerous poetry collections, including pilgrimage:  ha!ku selected & new, Red Moon Press, 2017.

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

Deadline: 9th December 2020

haiku by Michael Dudley http://michaeljdudley.com

picture by Shapelined https://unsplash.com/@shapelined

Creepy Pharma [naviarhaiku361 - abandoned farmhouse]

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

Wander [naviarhaiku327 - meandering through the city]

Carlos R

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