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Thought Shadows

performed by Rosalind Ventris, for her album SOLA

Boreal (for sola viola)

Step 1: Choose a favorite book, or simply choose one at random.
Step 2: Read — preferably aloud — the first sentence in the book’s text.
Step 3: Make music that somehow reflects the line you read in Step 2.

Nice challenge!
I picked a book at random from a cardboard box filled with souvenirs from my years in Argentina. When I moved to Europe, I brought most of my belongings with me — but some heavier items (mostly old books, cassettes, and vinyl records) stayed behind. I'm gradually bringing those things — and memories — back.

The first book from that pile:
*Cuentos de dos orillas* (1971 edition)
I remember most of the short stories in it — I read them decades ago (at least 35 years). The one I truly love is the story by Borges.

For the music, I used an unused 2023 recording with Santiago Arias on bandoneon (I play bowed upright bass and Fender Rhodes). I added some synths to create an abstract soundscape.

This is the passage I read:

Funes, el memorioso
by Jorge Luis Borges
Lo recuerdo (yo no tengo derecho a pronunciar ese verbo sagrado, sólo un hombre
en la tierra tuvo derecho y ese hombre ha muerto) con una oscura pasionaria en la
mano, viéndola como nadie la ha visto, aunque la mirara desde el crepúsculo del
día hasta el de la noche, toda una vida entera. Lo recuerdo, la cara taciturna y
aindiada y singularmente remota, detrás del cigarrillo. Recuerdo (creo) sus manos
afiladas de trenzado. Recuerdo cerca de esas manos un mate, con las armas de la
Banda Oriental; recuerdo en la ventana de la casa una estera amarilla, con un vago
paisaje lacustre.

 @disquiet

Funes el memorioso (disquiet0705)

it all begins with a spark.   an idea.  a promise.   then it's about the instruments.   then about balancing all of the things i want it to do.  as simple as that.

as simple as that

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Andrea Cecon’s poem “thinking of us / the sound of wind / among the pines”.   

Tracklist:   

Stan Magendanz · thinking of us  https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/thinking-of-us-naviarhaiku600
Voidborn Horde · The Sound Of Wind  https://soundcloud.com/voidbornhorde/the-sound-of-wind-naviarhaiku600
Adrian Lane · Us the Wind Among the pines  https://soundcloud.com/calicoade/us-the-wind-among-the-pines-naviarhaiku600
vheissu77 · wind & pine  https://soundcloud.com/vheissu77/wind-pine
zenbytes · wind among the pines  https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/wind-among-the-pines
El Wud · Shapeless shadows  https://soundcloud.com/el-wud-1/shapeless-shadows 

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
  
Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #376 – Thinking of us – Wednesday 16th July 2025

Meadows

Created on iPad, mixed and mastered with Cubase 14 and Ozone 11

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 605:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku605-just-inside-the-fence/

Photo by zenbytes (Sibratsgfäll, Austria, 2019)


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