A live improv featuring two solo string patches played in unison recorded directly from a 1983 DK Synergy II+, an early additive 32 oscillator digital synthesizer recently returned to working order at Hideaway Studio.  The Synergy is a direct relative of the Crumar GDS and the Bell Labs Synthesizer known as Alles Machine.

These strings are 100% synthesized.. not a sample in sight here - and all the more amazing considering the age of this all-digital beast!

Original Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2014.

1982 DK Synergy II+: SoLo Strings

in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.

From the Haiku Guy website:

“Perhaps Issa’s dream is symbolic. Like a turtle, he is hunkered inside his shell (hut), waiting out the harsh winter weather. Or, William Nicholas offers a different interpretation, noting that the turtle is linked with good luck and longevity in Japan. In 1812 Issa was still a bachelor; he married two years later. At this point in his life he longed for the good luck of marriage and family life, hence the dream turtle’s teasing laughter?”

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

Deadline: 17th May 2023

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Todd Trapani https://unsplash.com/photos/ymEcUhbjCrI

Winter Seclusion (NaviarHaiku488)

:::
my contribution
to
Naviar Records
Haiku Challenge 502

my interpretation of a
haiku
by
Masaoka Shiki
.
.
.

everyone gone…
in the wake of fireworks
darkness!

gone... ::: naviar haiku 502

See accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/Y5gTprRp1Sw

summer sky…
rippling the silence
a watersnake

Haiku by Janice Doppler https://poets.drifting-sands-haibun.org/first-name-starts-with-j/janice-doppler/

Picture by Jackson Hendry https://unsplash.com/photos/kKpTHqM2K-c

More information: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF ripplinG [naviarhaiku507]

Accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/iWLUqYsYQSo

Muted piano and solo strings and harp with a Bartok pizzicato style to create the sound of 'orchestral rainfall' ...

in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall

Haiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/

Further information: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

halF orchestraL [naviarhaiku510]

Enjoy the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/nXTq8-uefv8

in dark autumn nights
dew and the new bamboo shoots
reaching out to moon

Haiku by Shubham Dasgupta https://www.instagram.com/poetry.bysdg

More information: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

halF bamboO [naviarhaiku511]

I was moved when I read this weeks Haiku from Naviars own Marco Sebastiano Alessi.
There was an idea in my head almost straight away, a repeating piano set to a echo delay effect that could potentially never end. Anf then the feeling of an empty house, an old distorted 78rpm record playing as if from a distance (of time?) and the feeling of a place of memory but now all gone.

-----------

Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

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

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Audio Obscura - Echo Footsteps (naviarhaiku512)

release date :29/10/2023   
Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

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

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Once Full Of Life (naviarhaiku 512)

naviarhaiku512 – Endless echo

Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

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

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Endless echo (naviarhaiku0512)

Another response to a Naviar Haiku #512. 

> Endless echo
> footsteps on an empty house
> once full of life

This time the haiku is by Naviar's founder, Marco Sebastiano Alessi. 
Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

#naviar #naviarhaiku

Empty Echoes [naviarhaiku512]

A live improvisation by D.A.Wilson shortly following restoration of 1982 Digital Keyboards Synergy number 1032 at Hideaway Studio running in conjunction with the SynHCS host editor on a Kaypro II CP/M computer under HxC disk emulation.  

In this recording you can hear the Synergy's unusual continuously variable random vibrato in action.  The Synergy is an all digital synthesizer with 32 oscillators featuring both FM and additive synthesis.  It is a direct relative of the 1979 Crumar GDS.

Original Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson 2015.

1982 DK Synergy 1032 Awakens: Evolutions

https://chinenual.com

Photos by David Clode, Ellen Qin, Kai Dahms and Rene Bohmer on Unsplash

Empty Echoes [naviarhaiku512]

Chinenual