All submissions to Haiku 256:

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/28/naviarhaiku256-thin-snow-scatters-on

To participate:

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

- Publish 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/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

Haiku #256: Thin snow scatters on the wind, / melting as it falls / Cries for help for light

originally intended to be a collab- fell through...
3rd track from "Four Abstracts" EP burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/four-abstracts
photo-Michael Ryan- Cathedral Wash Canyon-Arizona

Abstract Three

Deep bass for deep space and deep lights.

Naviar Haiku 601
pulling light
from the other world...
the Milky Way

Deep Lights

Let it go

2025-07-27

unrest around us

NO CONVENTIONS

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
604
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

2025-07-31

In spring sunlight (Naviarhaiku 604)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 604

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita

Picture by Kyle Bushnell

Submission deadline: 6th August 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Whisper fields (naviarhaiku604)

INTANGIBLE

United (Night's Daughters Mix)

Underground Walk

Thin snow scatters on
the wind, melting as it falls
Cries for help for light 

haiku by Robert Hayden https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-hayden

picture by Thomas Griesbeck https://unsplash.com/@jack_scorner

snowfall

halF snoW [naviarhaiku256]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
256 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2018-11-29

It's snowing (Naviarhaiku 256 )

electric guitar e-bow solo (epiphone sheraton)
rhodes electric piano
treated drum loops/beats
synth
upright bass


music composed and performed by DD for this haiku:

"thin snow scatter on
the wind, melting as it falls
cries for help for light"

November 29th 2018

Image by jeffrey blum(detail)
haiku by robert hayden

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/28/naviarhaiku256-thin-snow-scatters-on/

Sheraton Snow (naviarhaiku256)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
256 week haiku
naviarlab.tumbir.com/

Thin Snow Scatters On The Wind - Melting As It Falls - Cries For Help For Light (Naviarhaiku 256)

Thin Snow Scatters On the Wind (naviarhaiku256)

Naviar Haiku 256

Thin snow scatters on
the wind, melting as it falls
Cries for help for light 

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) published his first book of poems, Heart-Shape in the Dust, in 1940.

Even though he was interested in African American history and often expressed his concerns about race in his writing, he didn’t want to be identified as a black poet. William Meredith wrote about him: “Hayden declared himself, at considerable cost in popularity, an American poet rather than a black poet, when for a time there was posited an unreconcilable difference between the two roles. There is scarcely a line of his which is not identifiable as an experience of black America, but he would not relinquish the title of American writer for any narrower identity.”

Thin Snow Scatters On The Wind (naviarhaiku256)

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 snoW [naviarhaiku256]

halF unusuaL

Recent comments

lone arrivals continued

Sunshine Girl

Latz

TheNumbersInTheDream

Related tracks