rlx aí

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

ひらひらと雪
そしてなんにもない
天と地と

it was snowing this morning 
everything white everywhere smile
nowhere sounds

Kajiwara Hashin was born in 1864 and studied under Kyoshi. Although Hashin is not very well-known as a poet, this particular haiku that he wrote is quite popular worldwide: it was first translated by Miyamori Asataro and later by R. H. Blyth.

Haiku : Kajiwara Hashin
Music : Nukumori Eugene / Nx a-tale-of.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/jinsei_books

fluttering snow 雪華 [naviarhaiku584]

triangle song

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Among Pines (naviarhaiku600)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 603

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

Haiku by Kogetsu Eguchi

Picture by Luca Ercolani
 

Submission deadline: 30th July 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Equilibrium (naviarhaiku603)

Battle for Chipland

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

Track list and start times:
00:00  Tomo-Nakaguchi – Twilight Glow of the Sky (Autistici Suspended Remix)
04:44  Sven Laux & Logic Moon – A Cascade Made Of Stars
09:35  Rumore – la_fine_del_mondo
15:24  Larry Toadman – the shipwreck
19:32  Alexandra Spence – The Frequency of a Leaf
26:51  Colin Andrew Sheffield – Invocation
32:15  Felicity Mangan – Cello Figures
40:31  Areliz Ramos – Blue, very
43:28  Larry Toadman – ancient well
48:04  Lee Morse – Dallas Blues
51:10  Mesmo – Xamana Sugaropa
55:20  Offthesky – Eyes Like Isles
1:01:52  Sara Cubarsi & Xenia Gogu – Bach Tunings by Marc Sabat
1:07:55  Worksite & Workshop – Carreira's Cross
1:14:21  Sebby Kowal – Ikebukuro
1:22:00  Crows Labyrinth – Heliograph
1:28:32  Kleistwahr – Requiem For The Fallen
1:34:38  Offthesky – Exhale Incandescent
1:42:15  Rumore – Mondo Cane
1:45:40  Jeans Beast – Mystique ll (excerpt)
1:56:06  Marc Dauncey – rem sleep
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Images:  Lexica.art

Eclectic current – The terrible price of clarity

she does the thugs
to get the drugs
and she sweeps all that shit
right under the rug

she takes the bus
to get to us
and now she's deep in it with
the party she can trust

she's on the floor
she play's the whore
and now she's deep in it with
the boy she's been waiting for

that girl gone wild
she's off the dial
she be tweaking freaking now she's doing
doggy style

right on the floor
down on all fours
and he be humping jumping pumping and
she's begging for more

she can't be tamed
she's got no shame
all 

she want's is more of the same

bad girl

she be the bad girl

and she loves it

she loves it


bad girl

Everything 
Everyone 
Forged in the fires of creation 
As the fires of chaos settle
Cosmic flowering of smoldering ashes
Beyond beginnings and ends
The microcosm within the dirt under my nail
Do we hide under the nail of the Demiurge?
Will it wash its hands of us?
Or will all be recycled through the fire of creation?
The one beyond beginnings and ends.

Is it hot
or simply less cold?

Mr. Grank rediscovers yet another marble within the flames of creation and destruction.

Tidus had a dental procedure today and still wanted to bust a new track out with me. His desire to participate even on a day I suggested we take it easy is quite an inspiration. Hoping a fast and safe recovery for the little man!<3

Lost In The Fireplace

Atmo Spectral 1

For me, fog conjures up periods of quiet, interrupted by mysterious creaks, drones and transient melodies that appear and the drift away. I used the Instruo Pocket Scion (using my skin and not plants) to trigger midi instruments in Logic. At the forefront is the piano, which I imagined myself plunking away on as the fog obscured the keyboard and my hands. Hence it comes across as hesitant and unsure. 

disquiet0716

lutiveq_05

gamble in the shamble

Just Remember

Six Three
1: Six Three, 02:32
2: Six Three Touch, 03:00
3: Six Three Orbits, 03:39
4: Six Three Particles, 02:13

Dates:
05-Dec-2025 (inception), 06-Dec-2025 (finalised), 07-Dec-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/six-three

SHORTEN VERSION, excludes Table 1 tuning, see my BandCamp site or my social media page for full details (https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/)

Description:

Marcelo Leal Ref. [1] posts an article on FaceBook group, "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" and tags me, I looked on with interest. A tuning scale developed using at most harmonics one through to and include sixty three, octave reduced (i.e. divided by powers of 2 to ensure the frequency ratios remained within the 1. to 2. range. 32 Notes were used in this scale with adjacent note intervals starting from 53 cent, gradually reducing to 27 cent for the last interval to the first octave. So loosely speaking a quarter tone tuning with some stretching. I have tried quarter tone equal divisions of the octave tunings (24EDO) in the past and could not really get warm with them. Still, I was intrigued. 

Thirty notes, a lot of intervals to imagine, so I thought some form of colour coding on my Ableton Push2 midi controller would help. My Digital synthesiser, PulseRectOsc has micro-tuning and a user definable colour table, so switched this on and began experimenting. Stepping back just a bit, some preparation work on a spread sheet was necessary to calculate the frequency ratios, figure out a colour system using nearest 12EDO notes as a frame work.

The colour coding was to start the root note out as RED (1), colour all the diatonic notes of the nearest 12EDO major scale notes (the white keys on a piano) in GREEN (10), colour the nearest 12EDO sharp accidentals (#) in BLUE (15) and what was left over (the ^ and \/'s) coloured in PURPLE (18). The note naming convention used here was intended as a performer guide.

The PulseRectOsc synthesiser is a drone with a pulse like wave shape, amplitude modulation, wave folder distortion, a delay+feedback net work and your choice of VST reverb (or other effect). I used the Native Instruments' Raum for reverb. PulseRecOsc has an eight track audio recorder, so I recorded some four note chords to improvise over on the Soma Lyra 8.

The Soma Lyra 8 tuning approach was to tune it by ear to eight notes from the Table 1 tuning for the first track prior to the performance, then improvise a melodic line. Subsequent tracks would use a different four note drone chord from the PulseRectOsc and the Lyra 8 would use the tuning from the previous track as a starting point but alter the tuning during the performance. Each performance would introduce additional entropy into the tuning as performed on the Lyra 8, all done live, by ear, during the performance.

Each track's duration was purposely kept short, I wanted to demonstrate the various flavours of the 63-Limit Otonality tuning and in Lyra 8 style interpret this tuning organically.

The signal chain for the Lyra 8: mono out to the Soma COSMOS (rhythmic firmware, adds reverb and stereo space) -> stereo to digital interface -> 8 track recorder of PulseRectOsc.

The tuning of the Lyra 8 is very organic, is influenced by adjacent oscillators and has a "MOD" dial to accept frequency modulations from what it calls a "Hyper LFO". The Hyper LFO comprises of two low frequency oscillators, I used them here in the OR mode not synchronised, each pulse of the LFO changes the oscillator voice frequency according to the MOD dial. You don't control it strictly, more like guiding it, you listen and decide to increase or decrease the amount of modulation. A very organic approach.

References:
[1] Marcelo Leal, 5-Dec-2025, 63-Limit Otonality by Pitch (tuning scale). FaceBook group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1asmaHiK7G/

Six Three Orbits

sycamore 5_11_19

Matuê - Banco feat. Predella

Ich erschaffe Klangwelten, Sehr dunkele Klangwelten Gedankenwelten so wie Ambient Welten. Habe mir alles selber beigebracht. Notenlesen Hab ich nie Gelernt. Lebe in meiner Gedankenwelt. Meine Klangwelt erstelle ich nur nach Gehör. Es Freud mich wenn ihr meine Klangwelt Hört.

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