Naviar Lab Contributions 2018

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]

Deadline: 31st October 2018

haiku by Richard Wright https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/wright.html

picture by Biel Morro https://unsplash.com/@bielmorro

Lost Ways [naviarhaiku251 - I have lost my way]

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.

Naviar Lab Contributions 2018

Carlos R