Naviar Lab Contributions 2020

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.

Naviar Lab Contributions 2020

Carlos R