I was actually just messing around for a few hours with some sounds and thinking of the heat wave we're having here in the UK. This was bubbling along and  I was playing some dead sounds on the piano when the Naviar Haiku came along, it seemed to fit the mood and the words. I then started a new arrangement to further focus the sounds on the words and meaning of the poem. Quite pleased with this. Not taken part in the Haiku challenge for a while so seemed a good time to come back to it.
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    having a dream
    is part of the job …
    rain in spring

    Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, “the Nun Shokyu” traveled to to the Deep North of Japan.

    Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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    haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/shokyu-ni.html

    picture by Corey Hearne https://unsplash.com/@socialcorey

     

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A Dream... Of Rain (naviarhaiku394)

A phenomenon that seems to have escaped the attention of many researchers is how insects in the area of Cambridge, UK, deal with heat waves - maybe because of the relative rarity of heat waves in that part of the UK until recently. Whan dealing with rising temperatures, local insects tend to swarm together and organise their vocalisations into regular patterns that follow a progression not unlike that of cellular automata. Surprisingly, different kinds and geni of insects tend to join in and lock into the pattern together, suggesting a kind of inter-species communication that has also escaped our scrutiny

In fact, in an unpublished article, Martin Gardner has ventured the hypothesis that the late John H. Conway might have been influenced by the sounds of insects while working on his particular version of cellular automata - what we nowadays know as Conway's Game of Life...


...Of course, I'm making things up again. "Insect Automata Swarm" is my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto project #0503: "Global Swarming". For this project, I used no less than 39 of the available insect sounds, and structured the "swarm" by using four out-of-phase cellular automata objects in Pure Data. The result is a slightly cacofonous, part-machinic and part-organic, but always organised rumble and noise.

Sound sampled here proceed from two previous Disquiet Junto projects: 

Disquiet Junto #0494: "Insect Menagerie": 

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494

and Disquiet Junto #0498: "Sonic Entomologist"

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0498

Samples include work by @analoc, @ausgesuchtestenohren, Bbob Drake, Bee Kind, Bick Brannigan III, Breanna Johnston, Caustic Gates, @creaturesonce, Fake Genius, Gary Barwin, Gerard Paresys, Karmic Resonance, K. Joule, Krakenkraft, Lewlaufer, @Losanch, Michael Ash, @Net, @morgulbee, Parallel Tool, Paul Beaudoin, Piney Boy, Radio Hummingbird, Richard Fichera, Scott Boone, @seramind, @wasabicube, @zedkah, @Zounzabar, et al.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

Disquiet Junto #0502: Global Swarming

Insect Automata Swarm (disquiet0502)

More on this 505th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Line Out (The Assignment: Share a track, get feedback, and give feedback) – at: https://disquiet.com/0505/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0505-line-out/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Alex McConnell, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/7Enqhx

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Justify (disquiet0505)

cicadas
the stillness
begins

haiku by Andrea Cecon https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Cecon/e/B00955O0CA

picture by Haoxi Wang https://unsplash.com/@haoxi

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

feign blah

halF begiN [naviarhaiku400]

[disquiet0505] born without wings

Work in Progress

This track is part of the Disquiet Junto project – Line Out (The Assignment: Share a track, get feedback, and give feedback) – at: https://disquiet.com/0505/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0505-line-out/

Disquiet Junto | Line Out - disquiet0505

曲の出だしが出来た時、時間と空間を手掛かりに出来そうな雰囲気だなぁと思う。制作中に父親が亡くなり、あとどのくらい自分にも時間と空間が残されてるんだろう…なんて思いながら作りました。

Time. Space. Remaining(2021.11.2〜)

rupture

Meditation

sunset anthias  (disquiet0524)

haiku by Yoshida Donguri https://haiku.kaigonokaeru.info/

picture by Das Sasha https://unsplash.com/@dasdasha2015

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

the 'hi' flaw

halF whitE [naviarhaiku421]

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

halF begiN [naviarhaiku400]

halF unusuaL

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