Love the way this resolves into it's own rhythm :)

You are a great experimenter with sounds and soundscapes!!! :-)

All submissions to Haiku 340:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze


To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”

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haiku #341: A fragrant breeze / Is blowing from China / Over these seven strings

"Puisque les plus heureux ont des douleurs sans nombre,
Puisque le sol est froid, puisque les cieux sont lourds,
Puisque l’homme ici-bas promène son cœur sombre
Parmi les vains regrets et les courtes amours"
Louise Ackermann

Marches de Travers

Part 2 of the final track of Then She Reaches For The Gun's 2nd Album
released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel in Adelaide Part 2 (Yahtzee with Mackerel on the Bed Mix)

Friday Night Rehearsal)

electronic analog industrial,percussion,and staccatos

Just in time for the pre-Christmas season, we have prepared a little gift🎁 for you.
We've written a new, funny little Christmas song for you! 
Enjoy listening!😻

Merry Christmas to everyone!
        Love & Light 
      ✨🌟❤️🌟✨

Merry Christmas 2025

Amanitalinda in Elfin´s Winterland (New Song 2025)

Sparky B. - vocal, piano, organ
Mat Planet - guitars 
(thanx Mat)


Songwriter: Jeff Lynne
1979 ℗ EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

________________________________________________________________

Don't Bring Me Down

New Track - Work in Progress
Rap Performance & Lyrics by Amanitalinda 
(It's not included in our demo mix yet!)

Your Child of Nature ✨🌟❤️🌟✨

Every Scar a Star

Every Scar a Star (Demo Song 2025)

Close My Eyes Midnight

I hope this song reaches your heart. 
Thank you so much for listening.

This is an original track.
I recorded the guitar, bass, piano and drums myself. Some elements like certain string parts, ambient sounds, and subtle adjustments were programmed using MIDI — although some of the string sounds were also played and recorded using an electric piano.
This track features vocals by Koharu Rikka (小春六花), a singing voice synthesizer.


The lyrics are as follows:
------------

私の声は　きっと　
月夜を照らした輝く星のように

私の声が　ずっと
あなたの心に届いてほしい
、、、夢でも良いよ

鮮やかな流星のように（遠く）
言葉を運んでゆく
、、、それが消えても良いよ

My voice — shine brighter,
like a radiant star that lights up the moonlit sky 
— for someone out there will surely feel its warmth.

My voice — reach deeper 
into your heart
for this voice can gently cross so many walls
and discover new paths waiting in the light.

Like a vivid shooting star,
it carries every word, strong and bright.
（strong and bright）

Like a beautiful shooting star,
carrying each word straight and shining bright！

My colorful voice, 
echo across the world.
My colorful voice, 
let every note shine.

My colorful voice, 
echo across the world.
My colorful voice, 
let every note shine.

Even if it’s only a dream,
still, my heart will shine on.
Even if it fades away someday,
still, my heart will shine on.

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The Colorful Voice

City Bear

A fragrant breeze
Is blowing from China
Over these seven strings

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze/

Samples from https://github.com/abalone1969/tiochatopiano
Photo by Joshua Fuller: https://unsplash.com/photos/9Ng6mvu7ZNg

Stochastic piano

Stochastic piano (naviarhaiku341)

Kaoru kaze ya morokoshi kakete nana no o ni

A fragrant breeze
Is blowing from China
Over these seven strings

[trans. Fumiko Yamamoto]

haiku by Tagami Kikusha https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/tagami-kikusha.html

picture by zhu wei https://unsplash.com/@zhuwei5021

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

blah freeze

halF breezE [naviarhaiku341]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
341week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze/

2020-07-16

A Fragrant Breeze Is Blowing From China Over These Seven Strings ( Naviarhaiku 341 )

a fragrant breeze
is blowing from China 
over these seven strings

naviarhaiku341: a fragrant breeze

I was mad at the world…and then I let it go. 
This song represents the process of recognizing an automatic negative thought and eliminating it mindfully.

Ends With Hope

Ends with Hope (NaviarHaiku341)

Welcome tσ th!s εvσlving space … inspired by thε playful sp!rit of hai (meaning “fun” or unμsuΔl, like in haiku) …

I dig around thε edges t0 uneΔrth non-mμ§ic musics — sliding into nσ!§ε, glitch, chΔnce, Δ$MR, and σther soundwσrlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity …

✨👂 L!§†εn cΔrεfu!l¥ … 👀 εxplσrε dεεpl¥ … 🎵💫

And for the full hΔlF unμ§uaL trεΔ†ment for your eyes Δs well as your εars, check σut the Yσutubε channel… ░▒▓█ ᵒ(≧▽≦)ᵒ ░▒▓█▒░

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Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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