Made in response to @naviar-records Haiku challenge 436.
Details: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/05/11/naviarhaiku436-lightning-thunder/

The challenge called for the thunder, lightning and rain. I tried to represent them all here. A great thunderstorm approaches. Little drops of rain, distant rumblings, darkening skies, then wind, flashes of light and heavy cracks of thunder. 

There is something about this challenge that I am finding inspiring.

Cumulonimbus

Cumulonimbus (naviarhaiku436)

heavy rain
the smell
of black earth

haiku by Richard Barnes https://twitter.com/NaumaddicArts

picture by Devin Kaselnak https://unsplash.com/@devinkaselnak

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

far health

halF eartH [naviarhaiku438]

Rejected production music demo/
Composed and recorded may 2022 in Paris.

I played guitars (using last week's rhythmic delays thing) and keyboards.

Another evrsion:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/time-lapse-vers-motorik-disquiet0545


Photo by DD

For this weekly junto joint:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0544-feedback-loop

Time Lapse (disquiet0544)

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

Electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data & 'submerged' so that they are no longer distinct.

Secret Messages (naviarhaiku439)

naviarhaiku439:
Tall trees gently wave
Sending secret messages
Into the Spring breeze

haiku: John Hinks @flownblue
image: Amanda Mocci unsplash.com/@amandamocci
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Spring Breeze [NaviarHaiku439]

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)

Featuring on 'percussion' underwater river insects and midi data from Lichen on a rock.
A soundscape inspired by  NaviarHaiku Haiku of the week by John Hinks
Tall trees gently wave
Sending secret messages
Into the Spring breeze

Trees Talking in the breeze.

Trees Talking In the Breeze(Naviarhaiku439)

Summit in Clouds (naviarhaiku440)

The Sower

My Own Personal Gel Lair (Rhacophoridae)

Explorations and experiments,  in sound, image, and animations . influenced by  interests from Organic Gardening to Neuroscience, Basic Electronics  and Mechanical Invention, Re-purposing Transforming and Recycling of Domestic Devices, Permaculture, Ecology,  Ambient and Noise music. Animated Sound and Image- Experimental,Animated and Visual Music Short films,installations and live audio visual performances with custom built interfaces such as the disco-microwave,midi-vacuum cleaner, and prepared ironing board.see more at 
www.paulfletcherartwork.com
and at vimeo
vimeo.com/album/188779sound music noise ambience

Trees Talking In the Breeze(Naviarhaiku439)

Ed Mundio