Naviar Lab Contributions 2021

moonbeams
like fishes –
swim over the river

It’s not the first time we experiment with haiku and AI, but it’s always fun. ChalkWalk, a member of Naviar’s community and regular contributor to the Haiku challenge, created some haiku with the support of GPT-3, an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. This language prediction model was developed by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory.

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

Deadline: 26th May 2021

haiku by ChalkWalk & GPT-3 https://soundcloud.com/chalkwalk-naviar

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-apps/

picture by Andy Henderson https://unsplash.com/@andyhenderson

Moonfishing [naviarhaiku385 - Moonbeams]

Kawahigashi Hekigoto https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/literatures-and-poems/haiku/kawahigashi-hekigoto-haiku-poemsfar fireworks
sounding, otherwise
not a thing

Like Santoka and Seisensui, Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937) was an important advocate of the free verse haiku.
Besides being a writer and critic of haiku, Hekigoto was a literary scholar, noh dancer, art critic, calligrapher, social commentator, and mountain climber.

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

Deadline: 14th July 2021

haiku by Kawahigashi Hekigoto https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/literatures-and-poems/haiku/kawahigashi-hekigoto-haiku-poems

picture by Joshua Rodriguez https://unsplash.com/@jcrod

Fire Away Paul [naviarhaiku392 - far fireworks]

the shimmering haze
above
the wet stone

Widely regarded as one of the most important female haiku poets, Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. She started writing haiku early in her childhood and was strongly influenced by Basho’s poetry (probably because her teachers were his students).

The fundamentals in Basho’s poetry include: sabi (detached loneliness), wabi (poverty of spirit), hosomi (slenderness, sparseness), shiori (tenderness), sokkyo (spontaneity), makoto (sincerity), fuga (elegance), karumi (simplicity), kyakkan byosha (objectivity), and shiZen to hitotsu ni naru (oneness with nature). Fukuda Chiyo-ni was particularly interested in the latter, since most of her poetry deals with the realm of nature.

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

Deadline: 25th August 2021

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

picture by Olga Thelavart https://unsplash.com/@olga_o

Sasquatch in a haze [naviarhaiku398 - the shimmering haze]

such a still water
even the dragonfly
splash it with the tail

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.

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

Deadline: 1st September 2021

haiku by Tan Taigi https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2009/08/tan-taigi.html

picture by Romello Williams https://unsplash.com/@romello

Sparkling for me, thanks [naviarhaiku399 - such a still water]

One traveller,
Wakes another traveller,
At the sight of the sea.

The Haiku Foundation is always a rich source of inspiration. I immediately fell in love with this poem by Choshi, included in R.H. Blyth “Japanese Satirical Verses“. For those of you who are not familiar with the difference between haiku and senryu: the former tends to be about nature, while the latter refers to some aspect of human nature or emotions. Their structure is similar.

I couldn’t find any information on Choshi online, so here’s what R.H. Blyth said about our haiku of the week:

“We have here a clear example of the difference between haiku and senryu. The sight of the sea in the early morning makes someone wake up a fellow traveller. But what remains in our minds is not the sea glittering in the morning sunshine, but the shaking and awakening of the traveller by someone who hardly knows him from Adam. We feel the kinship of the men through that one touch of nature.”

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

Deadline: 24th February 2021

haiku by Choshi  https://thehaikufoundation.org/book-of-the-week-senryu-japanese-satirical-verses/

picture by Pawel Nolbert https://unsplash.com/@hellocolor

Troubled travel [naviarhaiku372 - One traveller]

A lost child crying
stumbling over the dark fields…
catching fireflies

The haiku of the week is by Yoshida Ryusui (1691-1758). Very little is known about him, except he’s often cited and quoted as a poet who exemplified the key element in haiku of kireji or cutting word.

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

Deadline: 3rd March 2021

haiku by Yoshida Ryusui https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/ryusui.php

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt

Lost firefly [naviarhaiku373 - A lost child crying]

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 2021

Carlos R