Name: the mountain path (naviarhaiku 602) by cryxuss in haiku #602: scent of plum / in a flash of rising sun! / the mountain path
Duration: 1 min 44 s
Description: made for the haiku challenge #602 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/

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haiku #602: scent of plum / in a flash of rising sun! / the mountain path

Fantasy Variations on a Wooden Peg
The creation of this work was drawn from composer's memory of childhood. When he was a child, while he was crying, suffering, or in a restless state, his mother would turn the wooden pegs(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DHiu2gUKPZE8e-ree2Jg-02NfoqmVOyQ/view?usp=sharing) on the bed to create some sounds to attract his attention to let him calm down! The main function of wooden pegs installed on bed is to hang the clothes while sleeping. But if you use different strength to poke it or turn it in , it can make interesting sounds like birds chirping, doors squeezing, or even piercing screams. 
Based on this bedside memory, the composer recorded the sound of wooden peg on the 60-years old ancient bed. Just like his mother, he improvised on this installation, trying to create various possible sounds, even a sound art piece. Those recorded sonic clips were then manipulated through the technique similar to “developing variation” to work out all the possibilities of transformation of the material.The processed sounds were then “organized”(in E. Varèse’s word) or “digital micro-montaged”(in H. Vaggione’s word) to build up a musical composition with artistic interests which may bring endless and fantastic imagination to the listener.  
Fantasy Variations on a Wooden Peg was created and finished at the Sound Lab at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University(NYCU) in Taiwan on October of 2024.


Fantasy Variations on a Wooden Peg

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 598:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku598-after-the-typhoon/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Pilot Peak, Wyoming, USA, 2023)

Samples by
freetousesounds.bandcamp.com

after the typhoon - Naviarhaiku598

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
600
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

2025-07-03

thinking of us ( Naviarhaiku 600 )

a brief piece with Waterphone, Shakuhachi and plucked piano

Trio

Welcome to a little deep (haiku) space TidalCycles livecoding play! 😁😜

pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

Haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara: https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/JonesOnIshihara.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF milkY [naviarhaiku601]

yet another little livecoding experiment ... enjoy! 😁

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

This week's challenge features a poem by the greatest master of haiku, Matsuo Bashō.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/206
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

halF pluM [naviarhaiku602]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
602
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/

2025-07-17

scent of plum(Naviarhaiku 602)

made for the haiku challenge #602 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/

hi res download

the mountain path (naviarhaiku 602)

Hybrid orchestral soundscape, a simple E minor chord progression played on both electronic and acoustic instruments:  5 synthesisers alternating with 4 bowed basses, 2 cellos and a violin.

For this haiku:

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

by: Matsuo Bashō

Created by DD in Paris  July  2025

Photo by Damian Denis.

naviarhaiku602  by @naviar-records

The Mountain - naviarhaiku602

17Jul25
My naviarhaiku602 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/789227947919900672/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum
😊

the mountain path [naviarhaiku602]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 17/18 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, pedals, effects.

This original version of "Can I Have A Camel Custard?” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 602: Scent Of Plum.

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

by: Matsuo Bashō

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Can I Have A Camel Custard? (naviarhaiku602)

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by Tōge Morita


https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

wind through the tea bushes (naviarhaiku604)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge. Here's the information about that:

"slightly faint
yet clear
the milky way"

Toshio Kiyosaki (1922-1999) was a Japanese haiku poet and scholar of Japanese literature. He published a biography of Kyoshi Takahama in 1966 and co-authored Kyoshi Monogatari, another study on the renowned haiku poet, in 1979.

The Milky Way (amanogawa, or "Heavenly River" in Japanese) is a kigo for Autumn, mainly because that's when the galaxy is most visible in Japan.

Haiku by Toshio Kiyosaki

Extract of picture by Yong Chuan Tan
 

Submission deadline: 20th August 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

faint (naviarhaiku606)

One of Rolf Kasten's Playertron Stochastic patches for Voltage Modular( included with his Signal Path magazine) provided a firm foundation on which I was able to build the piece. I manipulated probabilities, bpm, pitch, as well as adding reverb using Waverley's Quadelay. I then applied some finishing touches in Reaper.
Another product of what I've learned about bringing creations to fruition in the SpaceDog's Kennel

not yet bent_Naviar Haiku 608

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses/

not yet bent-naviarhaiku608

a room to dream

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.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

the mountain path (naviarhaiku 602)

cryxuss

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