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HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 564

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.
 
Undoubtedly one of the most important Japanese novelists in modern history, Natsume Sōseki began his career publishing haiku and renku poems in a number of newspapers and periodicals. Early in his career he met Masaoka Shiki, who encouraged him to become a writer and tutored him in the art of composing haiku.

Between 1900 and 1903 he studied at the UCL in London, but this proved to be quite a dramatic experience for the young Soseki. Despite this, when Soseki returned to Japan, he exploded into prolific writing activity.

Haiku by Natsume Soseki

Picture by Ifan Bima

Submission deadline: 30th October 2024

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

Endless Descent

Endless Descent (naviarhaiku564)

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and piano

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13 dicembre 2024

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes

RIP David Lynch.

Disquiet Junto 0681 directed us to compose a sonic scene from a thriller, a walk or run to remember. If you're familiar with my work you know that I love a good narrative piece, and recently the Junto has encouraged a bit of sound design, so I felt well-prepared.

I wanted to avoid the trope of a woman being followed late at night, and instead went with the trope of the hitchhiker who may not be all that she seems to be. I spent a lot of time on stereo orchestration so please use headphones when listening.

Instrumentation was simple: a custom pad called "Shipwreck Organ" provided the pedal tone, with a lonely live guitar following along with minimal and mournful notes. 

There were a lot of samples used in this piece. The cars passing along the highway were hidden deep in Apple's Final Cut Pro library folder. The sound of single car approaching, idling, car door slamming, and pulling away is a composite of samples from Pixabay and field recordings. The BBC archive provided the car crash sample. The night sounds were from a field recording made in rural Virginia. The crunch of gravel underfoot took a bit of foley work: a recording of a potato mashing into a bowl of granola and manipulated a bit in Logic. The under-the-breath singing and humming of the hitchhiker was a live vocal performance recorded in studio and processed.

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

The Hitchhiker (disquiet0681)

The desert stretched out before them like a golden tapestry. This early in the day, the last remnants of a cool breeze could be felt coming down off the mountains to the west. Among the dunes, delicate blossoms of desert wildflowers began to furl and wait patiently again for the moon. The singing of the gentle wind across the surface of the dunes was all around them. 

Yves (Demo)

The Sweetest Time tells of a suspended moment, where time seems to stand still. The notes of a piano flow through the air, delicate and melancholic, as if each key tells a story of love never forgotten, while a sweet voice joins in, vibrant and intimate, like a secret shared with the heart. The rain becomes a steady rhythm, the sea an infinite echo, and the melody a promise of sweetness that lingers even after the final note fades, an immortal and fragile memory like a tear in the rain.

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Thank you for listening.

Velunai ☔

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