Maybe a little more than half unusual…I love this one!

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge::

- 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)”

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haiku #582: here and there / upon scorched fields / wild violets

[naviarhaiku582] scorched fields

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

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 the Deep North of Japan.
 
Haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni: https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/shokyu-ni.html

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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halF scorcheD [naviarhaiku582]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
582
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

2025-02-27

here and there (Naviarhaiku 582)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 26 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo.

This original version of "Cool Your Scorching Throw Pillow, Part 73" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 582, Here And There

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

by: Arii Shokyu-Ni

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 the Deep North of Japan.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Feb 2023 - a view of a painting of mine from the same month named “No Plans”, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Cool Your Scorching Throw Pillow, Part 73  (naviarhaiku582)

27Feb25

My naviarhaiku582 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/
:D

upon scorched fields [naviarhaiku582]

Found instant inspiration in the haiku that goes as follows:


here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

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 the Deep North of Japan.

Made for the Naviar Haiku, find out more here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

scorched fields, wild violets (naviarhaiku582)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 582

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

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 the Deep North of Japan.
 

Haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni

Picture by A C
 

Submission deadline:5th March 2025

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Savage Colors (naviarhaiku582)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku music challenge.

"here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets"

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 the Deep North of Japan.
 

Haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni

Extract of a picture by A C

here (naviarhaiku582)

My submission for the NaviarHaiku Challenge #583. More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Field recording attribution:
1) ermine - 'ambswmp-westhay-moor-nature-reserve-early-morning-ambience'
2) WWAudio - 'water trickling in an outlet of a hillside stream with birdsong'

Early Morning Light - naviarhaiku 583

Neither exists apart  (naviarhaiku584)

14Mar25

My naviarhaiku584 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/777828233117876224/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth
:D

snow fluttering down [naviarhaiku584]

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down
-Kajiwara Hashin-

live recording on the ambient zero

heaven & earth entangled (naviarhaiku584)

Musique de film d'espionage - Spy Film music score (Parody)

Spy Story (the mission)

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

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