Naviar Haiku is a weekly challenge to create a piece of music based on a poem. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/. This week's haiku is by Yamaguchi Sodo (fl. 1675):

I’m seeing the blue sea
The sound of drum has very softened
And Spring is in the air

For this one (my 5th) I thought I'd try something different from my usual electroacoustic creations. It's an orchestral piece - in 7/8 time - to celebrate springtime. Is it also a bit jokey? You can decide...

To Calmer Seas (naviarhaiku388)

A new track exploring a different sound palette to usual; for this I wanted to use largely brass instruments. A kind of post-rock brass band.
The lead brass instruments were Audio Modelling's SWAM Flugelhorn, French Horn and Trombone.

Ours Was A Steep Crooked Stair

THOT String And Zitherversion

another piece for the haiku challenge https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/01/naviarhaiku439-tall-trees-gently-wave/

Secret Messages In The Spring Breeze (naviarhaiku439)

Takakuwa Rankō was a haijin from Kanazawa and a student of Wada Kiin. Born into a wealthy merchant family, he travelled all over Japan and finally settled in Kyoto, practising as a doctor. A great admirer of Bashō, he erected a small shrine (the Bashō-dō 芭蕉堂) in his honour in 1783. Among his main pupils was the poet Sakurai Baishitsu.

Haiku by Takakuwa Rankō

Springtime asleep (naviarhaiku565)

telegraph pole
toppled down by
the tempest

by: Masaoka Shiki


beep myth test - naviarhaiku566

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

I imaged three children playing an improvised game of parkour, jumping over obstacles, chasing each other. Musically this is three improvised synth phrases with added snippets of vocals.

The vocals I lifted from this mix https://on.soundcloud.com/XQfaAnJYwffGgTAy9

Disquiet0677 - Guet Usecho

Bluster is a collection of five songs by tetkik ve tedavi, a contributor to the Naviar haiku challenge.

The collection represents an attempt to explore various states of mind, ranging from the eerie to the joyful, elicited by and expressed via repetitive arpeggios accompanied by ambient layers and electronic rhythm.

tetkik ve tedavi is Adil Sarıbay, an Istanbul-based musician working with various techniques and devices to explore ambient and electronic musical possibilities for self-expression and communication of experiences and emotions.

Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Adil Sarıbay
soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi

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tetkik ve tedavi - Bluster (teaser)

Track made using samples from Sample Focus https://samplefocus.com

ambient techno experiment

improvisation course at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, online improvisation, part II.

Please watch also the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8CtatKpBfA

More relaxed than part I, somewhere in dream country, with a few coins tossed at the beginning and the end asking for the next turn of events.

Voice – Yünfei Li. Flute – Yi-yin Chen. Bassoon – Zhaoqi Zhang. Guzheng – Mao Hong. Violoncello and coins – Matthias Balzat. Additional effects + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer. – Hubertus Dreyer.

The image shows a graphic representation of our discussion before engaging in the recordings.

ambient techno experiment

cryxuss