Can you tell wrong from right
In the fog of war and ga$light?
AI's whispering in your ear
This empire's crown is fear

The Dream Reel EP

Reckoning

not competitive

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age. The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0679 discussion thread on Lines:

At first I wasn’t sure if I had time but am glad I’m able to participate in the first Disquiet Junto for the new year. Created this dark noisy soundscape using field recordings of ice rattling in two different drinking vessels. Then copied these sounds into a 64hp rack that included Morphagene, Function, Ikarie and Nautilus. Combined everything in Ableton Live and added a couple random field recordings, samples and an additional track using Slate+Ash Primaries Strings. This turned out more chaotic and dense than I would have liked but enjoyed the creative process of putting this together. 

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/

Icehouse [disquiet0679]

This strange little tune uses only the single spoken word 'pine' as it's sole source material, making use of various forms of sampling and manipulation, including the wonderful Synplant 2 ... Enjoy! 😁

Although be careful, it's so odd the SC algorithm has warned me it won't be recommending it to potentially interested listeners ... Presumably, it's not considered 'music' by the machine?! Result! 😜

Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

Haiku by Kagami Shikō: https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2012/03/kagami-shiko.html

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

more halF unusuaL

halF pinE [naviarhaiku575]

This track came together slowly, organically, over a period of weeks. Finishing is often a fraught exercise and this one was no different. I am thankful for the timing of this week's disquiet junto, and the finishing prompt—it reminded me of this track and helped nudge and motivate me to finally complete it and share it. 

The title reflects the sound. When recording and mixing it, I was struck by how much of its sonic feel reminded me of the early pioneers of synthesis. Rather than move away from that sound, or stop and permanently shelve it, I opted to lean into it and just went with it. It wasn't pre-planned, quite the opposite, it just happened without effort or heavy conceptualizing. Maybe its ease of coming together—nearly fully formed with just a few takes—is why I neglected it, till now, and resisted calling it done.

pioneer disquiet0680

Pioneers - Disquiet0680

More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

This assignment was both easy and difficult. Easy because almost all of my music is a more or less spontaneous life recording. Difficult because I usually just save wav. files, so there is no easy way of refining by editing. Also, usually I have no recollection of the process involved whatsoever (it’s not drugs, but maybe age if you’re wondering).

Going through my messy iPad, I found a file named 20240115.wav, so I guess I made this almost a year ago. It sounds like several Plaits voices over a field recording with some glitch effect. To this I live jammed a glitchy beat and some other small bits. So now the track is as finished as it ever will be.

Disquiet0680 - Bleep Boom

picked up an ableton live session from last year, with a recording from my modular system - notes at the time mention using a matrix mixer for effects sends with feedback, one send to delay and another to beads, with a chord voice going in - revisiting this recording, i ended up layering two slower copies pitched down -1 and -2 octaves and working in some field recordings.

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More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

disquiet0680 - bilinear form

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kagami Shikō’s poem “Even though afar / a feeling of coolness / comes from those mountain pines.”

Tracklist:

tetkik ve tedavi - Forest Magic https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/be7da0d1-de7b-4746-86b2-2ae893de2bd2
Addisonic - Moutain Pines https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/moutain-pines
Debroc - Feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/feeling-of
Terry Mullett - atmospheric perspective https://soundcloud.com/terry_mullett/atmospheric-perspective-naviarhaiku575
Ray Cobley - Coolness from Afar https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/coolness-from-afar
Anne Versailles - Coolness feeling https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/coolness_feeling
Robert Knote - a feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/a-feeling-of-coolness-naviarhaiku575


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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Naviar Broadcast #352 - Even though afar – Wednesday 22nd January 2025

The ancient Greeks had two distinct concepts of time: Chronos and Kairos.  

"Tombstones often display the dates of an individual’s birth and death, separated by a dash. That dash represents the person’s Chronos time on earth and how it was spent.
Kairos time, on the other hand, points to the right, or opportune, moment (the supreme moment), a moment of indeterminate time in which events happen. Kairos is vital time, God’s time. While chronos is “tick-tock” time, kairos is a powerful moment when time stands still. Kairos time is when God interrupts our routine and touches us so deeply that we are forever changed".

Photo - Mount Athos, Greece 

I believed in love alone
I believed in rolling stone 
I believed belief is vain
When I was young when I was crazed
Just a kairos ago
Can you believe what's happened to us in us look-see 
It happens in no time 
Time
Outside of time
Just a Kairos ago
I believed in love alone
I believed that I was grown 
I believed belief is vain 
I'm shown more but cannot say 
What's been happening today
Just a kairos ago
Can you believe what's happened to us in us look-see 
It happens in no time 
Time
Outside of time
Just a Kairos to go
A kairos ago 
Kairos never goes
A kairos ago

Kairos

The Fisher

grève générale -
pas le moindre rêve
cette nuit

Michel Duflo

disquiet0680 - bilinear form

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