David Heath

the milk man's baby

Fluzie

Buy at Bandcamp

Look at the Other End

2020: depression personified.

Lyrics:
Fear stokes the pyre
Black smoke and ire
preordained, a cacophonic stain
Long heavy rain
Wont clear this away (make this abstain)
Feeling this decay, always
(its) suffocating, intoxicating

Deep smoke and ire 
Cursed is (be) this fire
Preordained, a cold coffin remains
Long heavy rain
Won't change a thing(nothing)
Emptiness, betrayal, always
It's suffocating
Please erase me

Pyre

Dreaming Music
Guy-Frank Pellerin: tenor saxophone
Recording: 27/10/2020

Dreaming Music / Guy-Frank Pellerin

Dry sound of footsteps
Continue regularly
Close to this lamp.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/11/18/naviarhaiku359-dry-sound-of-footsteps/

Photo by Niilo Isotalo: https://unsplash.com/photos/-BZc9Ee1qo0

Fireflies

Fireflies (naviarhaiku359)

Made for Naviar Records' 361st Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/02/naviarhaiku361-abandoned-farmhouse/

Ghosts of ice and snow [naviarhaiku361]

Disquiet Junto Project 0467: Toolbox Show & Tell. The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic.

80% of my music started on a cheap android DAW app called "Caustic". The sound is not perfect, but I like the workflow. Anyway, since 1 year or so I try to switch to Ableton Live. Because of the lockdown I had a lot of time to flatten the learning curve with this DAW.

My tip is about "Follow Action", to bee seen in the Clip Editor. Follow Action allows a clip to trigger other clips by probability, in the screen example of the track cover there is "play again" with prob 1, "play any other" with prob 2. The clip is one of of many clips which only contains some note on a scale or a chord.

Normally I somehow reject pure generative music, although I place a lot of value on chance in my own. It always seemed dishonorable to me to let a software (that I didn't write myself) generate music and claim this music to be "mine".

However, with "Follow Action" I have the possibility to achieve an (in my opinion) honorable mix of probabilities and composition.

In this case, there are different tracks with different signatures and different Gongs in A minor. I even added "empty" clips to get some "silence" into it. The probabilty for the different tracks differs, one could for example use one track to establish sequencial clip triggers, to include motives that are bigger than inside a bar.

(And please consider "honorable" a way to big word here…)

More on this 467th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Toolbox Show & Tell (The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic), at:

https://disquiet.com/0467/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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Generative Gongs [disquiet0467]

only a chirping insect
told me it was night
so bright was the moon

haiku by Ochi Etsujin https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/etsujin.php

picture by Alex Spataru https://unsplash.com/@spat

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

filching harp

halF chirpinG [naviarhaiku363]

If you don’t do anything else today
Listen to what some pundits say
Is censorship no longer at bay?
Is our freedom of speech slipping away?

“We got a conspiracy theory here…take it down”

Is the great reset, the ultimate goal?
Are liberty and choice deserting their role?
Is Divoc 91(covid19), bleeding our souls?
While the new world order, takes control?

“Conspiracy theory…take it down”

Land of the Free; Home of the Brave
Land the imprisoned; Home of the Afraid

The Trump cards in the attic, and the joker’s in your head
The butter’s going rancid, and there’s maggot’s in the bread 
Nobody has a face; mouths as black as coal 
Apocalyptic hangover‘s, starting to take its toll  

Global surveillance in total disguise 
Subtle brainwashing and so many lies
Serums flood the market as the 'gates' open wide
Watch out cause you’re in for a big surprise
 
“Conspiracy theory…take it down”

We need to stand up for democracy 
Or we’ll loose all our rights to autocracy
Elite power hungry bureaucracy 
Oh my God the hypocrisy! 

These are unprecedented times
Isolation is key to our survival
We must keep muzzled and separate 
Our enemy may be small, but it is relentless
It feeds on fake news and conspiracy theories 
Fear is our friend now; we must never surrender

The Trump cards in the attic, and the joker’s in your head
The butter’s going rancid and there’s maggot’s in the bread 
Nobody has a face; mouths as black as coal
Apocalyptic hangover‘s, starting to take its toll

Conspiracy theory; who’s on the jury?

The Great Reset or Conspiracy Theory?

One traveller,
Wakes another traveller,
At the sight of the sea.

The Haiku Foundation is always a rich source of inspiration. I immediately fell in love with this poem by Choshi, included in R.H. Blyth “Japanese Satirical Verses“. For those of you who are not familiar with the difference between haiku and senryu: the former tends to be about nature, while the latter refers to some aspect of human nature or emotions. Their structure is similar.

I couldn’t find any information on Choshi online, so here’s what R.H. Blyth said about our haiku of the week:

“We have here a clear example of the difference between haiku and senryu. The sight of the sea in the early morning makes someone wake up a fellow traveller. But what remains in our minds is not the sea glittering in the morning sunshine, but the shaking and awakening of the traveller by someone who hardly knows him from Adam. We feel the kinship of the men through that one touch of nature.”

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

Deadline: 24th February 2021

haiku by Choshi  https://thehaikufoundation.org/book-of-the-week-senryu-japanese-satirical-verses/

picture by Pawel Nolbert https://unsplash.com/@hellocolor

Troubled travel [naviarhaiku372 - One traveller]

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 🥰