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haiku #564: Fog clears away: / the waterfall shows up / bit by bit.

Wurligig

Piano Piece in D-flat Major

A 'bit' conceptual this one ... You're hearing 1-bit sound at the beginning of the piece ... all the way up to 16-bits by the end ... Enjoy!

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: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16061597.Natsume_S_seki

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

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halF waterfalL [naviarhaiku564]

mixing homemade bells, metal junk with synthetic sounds and resynthesis, inspired by NaviarHaiku 564 :
Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit. 
Natsume Sōseki

Curling Wisps And Tumbling Clouds Of Fog (NaviarHaiku564)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
564
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku564-fog-clears-away/

2024-10-24

Fog Clears Away (Naviarhaiku 564)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 23 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

I put together three generative parts for this in Reason - using Monotone, Felt Instruments Lekko & Subtractor. I then moved over to Ableton Live and did some processing there - shifted each track slightly off-time by stretching. 

This original version of "Surfactant Is Cool" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 564, Fog clears Away…

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.

by: Natsume Sōseki (Tr. Sōiku Shigematsu)

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.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 19 Aug 2011, LIRR, NY, USA

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Surfactant Is Cool (naviarhaiku564)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data with various plugins, etc.

Fog Clears (naviarhaiku564)

Inspired by the Naviar Records haiku challenge #564 by Natsume Sōseki

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.

This haiku made me think of a quote by artist Cecil Collins, 
“I see a shape complete in itself I search it with my mind and heart and then it begins to extend and I see in the half darkness that it is part of a colossal structure whose parts are covered in mists and darkness, sections appear and disappear; how many years has it taken me to realize that those mists, clouds, and darkness are in myself, and in the body given to me by the fatal powers of the world; that in Reality everything exists as a whole; a vision, a harmony, a joy.”

Cascade Rhythms [naviarhaiku 564]

“My life’s a jot of time, an hour that comes and goes; My life—a day, not more—escapes and runs away. To give You while on earth, O God, the love one owes, I’ve got…only today!” - from “My Song of Today” by St. Thérèse of Lisieux

A Colonnade of Cherry Blossoms

Composer & music producer of electronic, ambient, piano, EDM, and Jazz amalgamations. Music as spiritual gateway.

O God Eternal…“You awake us to delight in Your praise; for You made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless, until it rests in You.”
— St. Augustine

Cascade Rhythms [naviarhaiku 564]

GMR