So one of my favourite Ikea mugs just split in two the other day ... which inspired this little ditty ... Enjoy!

Accompanying visuals @ https://youtube.com/shorts/ll3IK2mFMaE

visuals (YouTube)

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Created with AUM on iPad, Make Noise Strega and Cubase 12 on PC

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 513:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/11/01/naviarhaiku513-a-black-dog/

Photo by zenbytes (2019, Austria)

dog transformed in snow - Naviarhaiku 513

An electronic composition, sounds from various sources.

Mountain Gale (naviarhaiku514)

11Nov23

My naviarhaiku514 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/11/08/naviarhaiku514-gale-in-the-mountains/
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watch how the fallen blossoms carpet the water [naviarhaiku514 ]

Since I'm trying to learn the Scottish Gaelic language, I will be giving my tracks Gaelic names.
Mathan (pronounced MaHan) means bear as the picture suggests.

Mathan

semita longa et brevis

Les Violons De L'automne, a title inspired by Paul Verlaine's "Chanson d'automne".

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naviarhaiku515 – Last bloom before autumn

Last bloom before autumn
Stares back at me with a smile
My younger brother

John Wright is a drummer, producer, and regular participant in our music challenge. A few weeks ago, John participated in our latest haiku workshop on Discord, and here’s one of the poems he wrote recently.

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

Deadline: 22nd November 2023

Haiku by: John Wright  https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj

Picture by: Katerina Kerdi https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photograph-of-forest–YiJvbfNDqk

Les Violons De L'automne - Naviarhaiku515

Disquiet Junto Project 0620: Beat Accrual Accrual
The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track.

Step 1: In the previous project, people built beats that accrue slowly over time. Familiarize yourself with the instructions at disquiet.com/0619 5.

Step 2: Several of the musicians who participated last week have allowed their tracks to be reused for this project. The majority are in this playlist. If you’d like your track from the previous project included this week, just get in touch and let me know.


For this test I used 2 pieces from the previous compilation:
1) GoingModular - Disquieting Polyrhythm
2) fakeg3nius - [disquiet0619] Rhythm
 I was particularly fascinated by the loop, which with very few notes and chords manages to create this suspended sensation of strong melancholy and, at the same time, of hope. On the other hand, the response, dry and peremptory, of the phrasing and timbre of the drums. I added, at the beginning and end of the piece, some "disturbance" lines, always rhythmic.

Going Fake(disquiet620)

“Trudge” alludes to the weird disconnected-yet-superconnected reality that envelopes us all day, every day. We wade through a mire of strangely polished ‘normal’ on every social medium we consume, and then can’t work out why we feel so substandard all the time. We voraciously seek the positive feedback that is designed to suck us in and keep us coming back for more. We scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll. What will it take for us to stop and look up? Or will we all slowly fall into the void?

Lyrics

This is the future baby
Trudge along ahead
Lead in my footsteps baby
Follow in my stead

Oh I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

Friends on my left babe
Friends on my right
They like what I’m doing
But they can’t help me tonight

Oh I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
Standing alone

I feel like nobody today
Faceless, insignificant, in the way
In the way
In the way

Yeah I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

We’re so together
But inside we’re so alone
Got all the answers babe
But still just don’t really know
We don’t really know, no

Yeah I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
Standing alone
I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

Credits

Ben Singer (@bensingermusic) and Sarah Golding (@voiceofgolding)
Drums: Sam Carter

Available on most streaming services (Spotify etc) starting on the release date (below)-- or support Nights by the Fire on Bandcamp using the "Buy" link under the track (above) or by going to nightsbythefire.bandcamp.com

Trudge

Eram: Quintet

Game start

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