Deadline: 7th February 2024

All submissions to Haiku 526:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

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 (naviarhaiku382)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz
Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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haiku #526: Turning around / I see my shadow / in the moonlight

Here is a small jazz impro, freely based on an old cuban folksong 🥥 while thinking of a forgotten old rum distillery, somewhere at an inaccessible beach in the caribbean tropics - a magical place that only a handful of people know about. (And if you listen closely, you can hear the quiet crackling of the rum fire in the background).

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The Rumist

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin

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

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halF moonlighT [naviarhaiku526]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
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https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

2024-02-01

Turning Around ( Naviarhaiku 526)

My new contribution to the current Naviar Haiku project.

Moonlight Shadow (naviarhaiku526)

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Sumitaku Kenshin was a haiku poet who practiced free-form haiku. He started writing poety after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and dedicated the last 2 years of his life to haiku, leaving 281 poems, mostly published by the free-form haiku magazine Kaishi.

 

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin
Picture by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Turning in the moon light (naviarhaiku526)

Triangular waveforms get modulated by The Hypster and others.

More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

Steam Drone (disquiet0631)

A sequence of modulated sounds from a recorded improvisation.

Shadows In Moonlight (naviarhaiku526)

for the disquiet junto //

ambient drone evolving into motion

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More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

dream come false

[disquiet0631] dream come false

Mody  (Music to forget...maybe he won't be forgotten afterward..!!)

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was "Take one held tone and make it dance slowly."

I thought this would be challenging, but really it all came together very quickly!

I thought about what dancing means (motion?) and tried to imagine ways a long held tone could "move" slowly. 

I came up with three main ways:
0:00 - 0:53 - a slowly moving bandpass filter followed by Abletons' stock Echo plug-in (the resonance of the filter immediately introduces an overtone that is not the held note, but hey don't blame me I didn't invent physics)
0:54 - 1:18 - Using a vibrato plug-in at about 50% wet/dry to slowly move the tone and town by cents
1:19 - 2:33 - Using tremolo to add a lot of motion - the tone is doubled, panned L and R, and tremolo'd at different rates to make it dance across the stereo field (the slowness of the dancing is debatable here, but the intent is there!)
2:34 - 2:58 - This is the opening phrase of the piece, but accompanied by an echo blast from the tremolo'd section that fades out

All in all, a ton of fun! I never in a million years would have tried something like, so this was a great experiment.

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More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

"Take one held tone and make it dance slowly." (Disquiet0631)

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

by: Sumitaku Kenshin (Tr. Nakaoka Naomi & Kurose Hiroko)

The deadline for this challenge will coincide with the anniversary of Sumitaku Kenshin’s death, so I thought it’d be appropriate to commemorate this remarkable poet with music from Naviar’s community.

Sumitaku Kenshin was a haiku poet who practiced free-form haiku. He started writing poety after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and dedicated the last 2 years of his life to haiku, leaving 281 poems, mostly published by the free-form haiku magazine Kaishi.

turning around [naviarhaiku526]

To the beautiful collaboration of @tunelight and@ActorNetwork,https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0637-2of3-take5-w-actor-network, I added some electric piano.

Travelling (Disquiet 638)

Όνειρο η ζωή(2)

Nocturno 1

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 🥰

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

halF moonlighT [naviarhaiku526]

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