The first Naviar Haiku challenge tackled by halF unusuaL was in January 2018. This is the first instalment of regular contributions over the years in release order. There are 50 tracks in this collection and over 3 hours of music ... Enjoy! 🤗

Ideal for playing whilst you're working, walking, driving, running, cycling, etc. You're welcome! 😉


For more on Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

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Naviar Haiku I - Early Years: January 2018 - August 2019

All submissions to Haiku 232:

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/06/13/naviarhaiku232-indian-summer

To participate:

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

- Upload your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku145)”

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcast and monthly free (pay-what-you-want)compilation. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix it by using a Creative Commons License.

Haiku #232: Indian summer: / dragonfly shadows seldom / brush the window.

Mixed Friends 44

Visuals @ https://youtu.be/kgTvlfcR8uI

Poem by Takahama Kyoshi https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/takahama.html

Picture by Jose Murillo https://unsplash.com/@jcmu

visuals (YouTube)

halF gianT [naviarhaiku208]

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/03/21/naviarhaiku220-a-quiet-garden/

halF gardeN [naviarhaiku220]

Spring approaches
the Pacific Ocean
will be my sitting mat
 
Poem by Soen Nakagawa https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/nakagawa.html

Picture by Sergei Akulich https://unsplash.com/@sakulich

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/03/28/naviarhaiku221-spring-approaches/

free download

halF sittinG [naviarhaiku221]

Ghostly melody
follows me into my day
fragment of a dream

Poem by Jason Richardson http://highku.blogspot.co.uk
Picture by Casey Horner https://unsplash.com/@mischievous_penguins

http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

halF ghostlY [naviarhaiku222]

Meditation class
the distant waterfall
suddenly closer

Poem by Marco Alessi http://msacrx.tumblr.com

Picture by Patrick Hendry https://unsplash.com/@worldsbetweenlines

halF klassE [naviarhaiku223]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
232 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/
NI Maschine
sound sample from  https://freesound.org/people/jaegrover/sounds/240549/

2018-06-14

Indian summer dragonfly shadows seldom brush the window (Naviarhaiku 232)

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/06/13/naviarhaiku232-indian-summer/

Naviarhaiku - Indian Summer

Steel string Requinto (acoustic guitar)
Upright Bass
Crystal bowls soundscape.

Music for this haiku:
"Indian summer:
dragonfly shadows seldom
brush the window"

Poem by Masaoka Shiki
Picture by Balaji Malliswamy

More on Naviar-Haiku:
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/06/13/naviarhaiku232-indian-summer/

New version of and old track released by Cezame-Fle and available for license here:
https://www.cezame-fle.com/liste_resultats.php?id_media[]=23811

Indian Summer Dragonfly (naviarhaiku232)

trying to evoke a dragonfly shadow which i found hard but after i'd made this i went into the garden and saw the rare sight of a dragonfly which i mustve invoked!

arpeggiated classical samples, same midi as this weeks disquiet track
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Masaoka Shiki is mostly known for having revitalized haiku in the time when,  after centuries of isolation, Japan opened to the West and was flooded with new ideas from abroad. You can find out more about Shiki and the artistic revolution that happened during his time in the essay “Masaoka Shiki and the Origins of Shasei“ by Charles Trumbull

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

 

Deadline: 20th June 2018

Poem by Masaoka Shiki https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/shiki.html

Picture by Gabriele Diwald https://unsplash.com/@gabrielediwald

dragonfly periphery (Naviarhaiku232)

Improvisation III

Indian summer:
dragonfly shadows seldom
brush the window.

Poem by Masaoka Shiki https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/shiki.html
Picture by Gabriele Diwald https://unsplash.com/@gabrielediwald

clicK-herE

halF dragonflY [naviarhaiku232]

An all-interval 12-tone row (serialism!) gets repeated over and over (minimalism!), but the tones are gradually revealed as 4th harmonics of implicit fundamentals (spectralism!) that get randomly (aleatoricism!) replaced, in each clarinet's part, by other harmonics.  The result is not midway between tonality and atonality, but rather, paradoxically fully committed to both logics at all times.  The harmonic cloud around the row gradually obscures its structure, and something happens at the midway point that may only seem obvious to the listener who gets to the end and goes back to the beginning.  This imparts a certain approximate symmetry (formalism!).  

The affect of the effect reminds the composer of butterfly flight, and the title refers, casually, to some recent research concerning how that all actually works.   The hidden crucial moment might suggest a "butterfly effect," but chaos theory is not literally implicated in the piece.

The practical score will call for three players even though effectively the work sounds as a mere duet.

Butterfly Waggle Vortex Rings, for clarinets

Boson Spin - Ossmilor

Submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0337: Through Composted
(Create a piece of music that is through-composed, but built entirely from samples.) For more information, see: https://disquiet.com/0337

Having written a through-composed folk song for February Album Writing Month 2011, I sampled my demo from YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_7VH9PRw4 )and used this as the backbone for my assembled tragedy.

Prince Of Thorough Compost [disquiet0337]

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