naviarhaiku481 – travel home
travel home
even the air
has changed

Wai Mei Wong is a former early childhood educator living in Toronto, Canada. Her picture book Hello, Dark was shortlisted for the 2022 IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and chosen for the 2022 CCBC Spring Best Book for Kids & Teens Selection. She enjoys poetry, nature walks and funny movies.

She started writing Haiku in October 2022, after she became curious about this deceivingly simplistic form of poetry. Her inspiration comes mostly from her experience or the stories from people close to her.

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

Deadline: 29th March 2023

haiku by Wai Mei Wong https://twitter.com/wmwongcreator

picture by Kate Bezzubets https://unsplash.com/@k8_bzz

travel home

naviarhaiku481 - travel home

Analog remaster by Purple Android and Blackparticle

Inchoate

Inchoate (naviarhaiku510)

Liminal Escape

Stroll through the woods under the beam of a UFO,
See the pines basking in the spacecraft's bold show.
Just gaze freely,
For oftentimes, the woods are a bustling alien fair.
You never realized,
But in the end, you're one of them, an extraterrestrial to declare.

Poem by Simizy 

link to original track

Listen to the forest on a moonlit night by Simizy on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/U12ng

Simizy - The Forest on a moonlit night ( Oj22 Remix )

Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene
Book 5 Canto 6 verse 5

As if before she had not counted trew.
  For houres but dayes; for weekes, that passed were,
  She told but moneths, to make them seeme more few:
  Yet when she reckned them, still drawing neare,
Each hour did seeme a moneth, & euery moneth a yeare


10/8 [akin to Armenian Jurjina rhythm] with emphasis on 1[3]468
and some 3/4 or 3/8 and 4/4

[In/out] of Time        Music for String Quartet and percussion

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Spirits Of Menghuanhu

Somewhere Nowhere

Enjoy the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/QViQOfQU5WE

morning service
offering its fragrance
a white lily

Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

More information @ https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF servicE [naviarhaiku519]

Recent experiments with Envelop Followers and LoPass Gates.

Plinkies

Guacamix 11

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 🥰

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