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hitting the leaves
and breaking them to pieces –
the cold

Shiba Sonome (1664–1726) was a haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashô. In her book Those Women Writing Haiku, Jane Reichhold wrote about her: “One sees that most of these women gained access to the inner circle around Basho by being related either by marriage or blood to one of his disciples. It is possible that Shiba Sonome was one of the few to be accepted as a poet on her own. ”

Cold Hit (naviarhaiku383)

A pair of juvenile Long-Eared Owls calling out from the top of a tall pine tree along the Plateau De Montselgues in Ardeche. This was recorded at approximately 22h00 on a windy mid-May evening. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
12.05.2021

Thanks to Grégory Chamming's & Olivier Pichard for help identifying the species.
Photo courtesy of Hedera Baltica (Creative Commons)

Juvenile Long-Eared Owls - Plateau De Montselgues, Ardeche, France

Wove

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: 50ftf.kronosquartet.org

Composed by Aruna Narayan, arranged by Reena Esmail
© 2019 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2022 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded September 2021 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington, January 2022

Aruna Narayan - Mishra Pilu

Hippos and an obnoxiously loud cicada call at dusk in the savanna. Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom mikroUsi microphones. Listen to more recordings from the African savanna at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGyXE47HzQ&list=PLCRlYmmK1sqpnPimVGFNUhmt1WtYhnsZc

Loud Cicada At South Luangwa

It‘s a huge pleasure to present for the first time in the catalogue the talented French composer Toàn. 
His third official album, Phonolite, is a little gem of eleven tracks and more than one hour of ambient and electroacoustic music. 
There is something special in Toàn’s sound and his capacity to create, with a wide range of acoustic and electronic instruments, a unique world of colours and shades. His sonic paintings are visual collages of microsounds perfectly arranged and chiselled in a photography of the early twentieth century. 
The name Phonolite comes from the Ancient Greek meaning "sounding stone" due to the metallic sound it produces if an unfractured plate is hit. Minerals and stones are therefore the concept of this outstanding album, a meditative piece of art that closes the trilogy after Histos Lusis and Volta No Vento. 
Please be captivated by the frail elegance of Phonolite.

Release date: June 18th, 2022

KS60 | Toàn - Phonolite "Calcédoine"

12 June 2018

While the summer nights in the taiga is the realm of the White’s Thrush, the dawn is owned by other songbirds. In the intense and diverse choir of bird voices in the early morning hour one might identify Red-flanked Bluetail, Garden, Blyth’s Reed, Willow, Arctic and Greenish warbler, Oriental Cuckoo, Black Woodpecker, Willow and Coal Tit, and Olive-backed Pipit. 

Eastern foothill of the northern Ural Mountains, Russia (60.07N/59.63E)

SD MixPre-3, Primos

Dawn choir, Northern Ural Mountains

After making a dawn recording at a Stringybark forest in Deep Creek Conservation Park, I visited a pine forest  several kilometres farther inland that I hadn't visited for many years. Being situated at the crest of a hill, the forest was quite exposed to wind; which, however, couldn't penetrate down to the forest floor; where, of course, the microphones were placed. Although the wind pervaded the forest space, the calls of the birds remained sharp and clear. The natural mix and balance of these very different and yet very complementary sounds was deeply pleasing and relaxing. (Among others: Grey Shrikethrush, Golden Whistler, Galah, Common Bronzewing, Common Blackbird.)

Recorded around 8:30 am in the morning with a pair of MKH 8020s in AB array with 60 cm spacing into a MixPre-6-II. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2019.12.07 Pine Forest. Morning. Early Summer. Wind. Bird calls.

Deepstaria (2019) for 2 analogue synths and e.guitar
commissioned by Ensemble L'arsenale / MAtera INtermedia Festival
supported by SIAE Classici d'Oggi
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Instrumentation: Doepfer Dark Energy II, Korg MS10, E.guitar + pedals, sampler, midi step sequencer.
performed, recorded and mixed at Bass Studio (American Academy in Rome)
+  Verona (at home), during quarantine 2020

Deepstaria (2019)

Marco Lucchi : piano

8 novembre 2020

for Naviar Haiku 
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

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waiting and waiting
for sunset…
the willow tree

Kobayashi Issa

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haiku by Kobayashi Issa http://haikuguy.com/issa
picture by Dave Hoefler https://unsplash.com/@johnwestrock

Marco Lucchi - Nichibotsu [Naviar Haiku # 357]

Meditation with my cello, take a deep breath...

Mind 12

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Loud Cicada At South Luangwa

George Vlad