when you return
don't forget my house!
departing swallows

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa: http://haikuguy.com/issa/search.php

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF returninG [naviarhaiku633]

5Mar26
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/810162545684004864/naviarhaiku635-can-you-hear-the-stars
😊

can you hear the stars? [naviarhaiku635]

The eagle-eared will know that if there’s any key at all, C Minor is a bit of a go-to home base for halF unusuaL. So for this week’s Disquiet Junto brief the left hand had to be in that key … with some simple triads from E Major in the right hand … sometimes apart, sometimes together as a polychord - so I guess it’s halF polychorD 😁

More on the 740th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polychord Amorous — The Assignment: Write a piece of music based on a chord progression of polychords — at https://disquiet.com/0740/

halF polychorD [disquiet0740]

Created in TidalCycles from a bodyless bass guitar improvisation. Enjoy the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/eMlJep-c-fM

beyond the talus
withering in the valley
- a hanging glacier

This haiku by Lisa Germany is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between Naviar Records and Red Earth Ecology that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration.

Lisa is a multidisciplinary artist whose work begins with walking, preferably in wild places. Rooted in awe and attentive to the natural world, she writes haiku and haibun in the traditional Japanese tradition, seeking moments of beauty in everyday experience.

The Australian living in Arctic Greenland gave a presentation that started the Stay Cool workshops. Her presentation can be viewed at https://youtu.be/aqy5HYAi6Fc or a summary can be read at ree.org.au/2026/02/17/stay-cool-with-lisa-germany/

The Stay Cool project will culminate in an exhibition in the city of Griffith, Australia from 20 April.

Haiku by Lisa Germany: https://lisagermany.com

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

visuals (YouTube)

halF glaciaL [naviarhaiku636]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
636
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku636-beyond-the-talus/

2025-03-12

beyond the talus (Naviarhaiku 636)

For this week's Disquiet Junto prompt I got thinking about telegraph poles and the clanking sound they would make if they fell down, or maybe against each other ... I don't have any telegraph poles to hand, but I do have some wooden drum sticks, so I banged those around and slowwwwwed them right down, so they sounded 'bigger' ... This was offset against a mini bell orchestra performance (making use of said drumsticks) ... I'm learning Blender at the moment, so if you like the idea of audio-reactive particle manipulation, using the two images you see in the thumbnail for this piece, then you might enjoy watching https://youtu.be/t-BSDrM3kPw ... niche as it might be! 😁 

More on the 741st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Balance Beam — The Assignment: Write music for bell and drone — at https://disquiet.com/0741/

halF equateD [disquiet0741]

This track is based on a field recording made during a rainstorm on our balcony. The bells belong to the nearby church and were captured at one point in the recording. The drones were developed from the sound of a plane passing overhead.
These sounds were turned into instruments played by the generative MIDI sequencer Transition while the rain and birdsong recording plays.

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project, which proposed combining bells and drones.

This is AI-generated track art.

More on the 741st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Balance Beam — The Assignment: Write music for bell and drone — at https://disquiet.com/0741/

bellsanddronesandbirdsandrain (Disquiet0741)

An electronic composition created in real time using Pure Data. An evolving drone sequence with bell sounds at random intervals.

More on the 741st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Balance Beam — The Assignment: Write music for bell and drone — at https://disquiet.com/0741/

With Bells On (disquiet0741)

More on the 741st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Balance Beam — The Assignment: Write music for bell and drone — at https://disquiet.com/0741/

Linch Pin (disquiet0741”)

Made for the haiku challenge 636 of Naviar records

beyond the talus
withering in the valley
- a hanging glacier

by Lisa Germany

This haiku by Lisa Germany is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between Naviar Records and Red Earth Ecology that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration.

Lisa is a multidisciplinary artist whose work begins with walking, preferably in wild places. Rooted in awe and attentive to the natural world, she writes haiku and haibun in the traditional Japanese tradition, seeking moments of beauty in everyday experience.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

A hanging glacier (naviarhaiku636)

electric guitar e-bow solo (epiphone sheraton)
rhodes electric piano
treated drum loops/beats
synth
upright bass


music composed and performed by DD for this haiku:

"thin snow scatter on
the wind, melting as it falls
cries for help for light"

November 29th 2018

Image by jeffrey blum(detail)
haiku by robert hayden

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/28/naviarhaiku256-thin-snow-scatters-on/

Sheraton Snow (naviarhaiku256)

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
Genre fluid music for images / instrumental / contemporary post-fusion / experimental jazz / electro acoustic ambient / melodic noise / neoclassical / naive hard core / cosmopolitan world music.

bio here:
http://dedeland.com/daniel-diaz-bio/


In some words:
Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Born in Argentina,
I studied music in Buenos Aires, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Paris.

For 20 years, I developed an important career as a session and backing musician in Argentina and Europe, playing, among other instruments, the bass, touring and recording with many jazz, rock, fusion, world, Latin and tango bands.

At the same time, I worked as an arranger, producer and musical director with many projects and artists in the USA, Argentina and Europe.

From 1992 to 1997, I performed my compositions live with my own band in Buenos Aires and began a solo recording career with the worldwide release of my first album "The Years Alone" on the North American label Green Linnet/Xenophile. On this album I arranged and performed 11 of my songs written between 1986 and 1993. I played most of the instruments, but included guest appearances by some great South American players.

My recording career continued with "Segundo Ciclo" (1997), released worldwide by Timeless Records, and 12 more albums released between 2000 and 2016.

Currently, I work as an on-demand film/TV composer while continuing to play live and produce.

Sheraton Snow (naviarhaiku256)

Daniel Diaz