Deadline: 5th July 2023

All submissions to Haiku 495:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/06/28/naviarhaiku495-bird-polyphony/

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- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”
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haiku #495: bird polyphony – / treble, alto, tenor, bass, / Spring meadow concert

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)

28Jun23

My naviarhaiku495 submission.
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/06/28/naviarhaiku495-bird-polyphony/
:D

Spring meadow concert [naviarhaiku495]

see accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/4bQZ3Gwerio

bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert

Haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley

Picture by EVGENIY KONEV https://unsplash.com/photos/YEcvdJ97Oig

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF polyphonY [naviarhaiku495]

Toy Piano
Slide guitars (Epiphone Sheraton)
Electric bass guitar
Synthesizer

For this haiku
bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert


Music composed and performed by Daniel Diaz

Haiku by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Suzanne D. Williams

@naviar-records
@ray_cobley

different version of the same tune here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/early-morning-star

Spring Meadow - naviarhaiku495

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
495
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/06/28/naviarhaiku495-bird-polyphony/

2023-06-29

Bird Polyphony  (Naviarhaiku 495)

This track is based quite literally on the text from the haiku... I used a dawn chorus recording I made earlier this year during springtime and gave it 4 stems in the partition. The top is the normal recording, then after a little time the 2nd stem comes in, with the same birds song pitched down. Then follow stems 3 and 4 later on, each more pitched down to complete treble, alto, tenor and bass. 
What originally sounded like a crisp dawn chorus here in the woods, slowly sounds like a deep Jurassic jungle...

Duuster - Dawn chorus scales (Haiku-495)

For Naviar's Haiku Challenge #495

> bird polyphony
> – treble, alto, tenor, bass,
> Spring meadow concert

Polyphony or cacaphony?    You be the judge. 

Sequenced with VCV Rack modules ( JW-Module's NoteSeqFu, Count Modula's Euclidian Sequencer, Stoermelder's 8Face, Little Utils Teleport, Submarine's And Gates, my Tintinnabulator and Inv harmonizers) to drive several tracks of sampled flutes and bells.

Haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley
Picture by EVGENIY KONEV https://unsplash.com/photos/YEcvdJ97Oig

Spring Meadow [naviarhaiku495]

:::
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

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.

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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)

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

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

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Spring Meadow [naviarhaiku495]

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