Sensing amongst evening Trees

All acoustic percussions performed by D.D. November-December 2024.

For this haiku:

on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms. 

Poem by one of the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

Photo by Annie Spratt

@naviar-records

a corrupt world's blossoms (naviarhaiku571)

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

With my Zoom H5 I recorded some Ice Cubes falling into and moving inside a salad bowl made of glass. I made a lot of efforts to get most out of the sound, for example I placed the bowl on a clotheshorse, so that it can swing more freely … but at the end I didn't use these sounds. I applied a lot of diverse stretching and reverb to get some pads and made a Pigments granular patch with some sounds I liked most. What I had planned didn't work and I made a lot of unusable detours. Now it's mostly an improvisation over some kind of instable repetitive structure, and I like it. All sound is based on the ice cube glass recordings; you may assume there are water noises, but it's really (stretched) ice, maybe sometimes with some surrounding meltwater.

The recordings can be found on my Freesound page
https://freesound.org/search/?q=krakenkraft&f=&s=Date+added+%28newest+first%29

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/
Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0679-ice-age/70238

ICEDESCENCE [disquiet0679]

An ice cube dropped into a glass - that is the starting point. Aside from the melancholic drone via a CS-80 emulation, all the sounds are derived from the original sample, with the processing being done via Arturia's Fragments and Motions plug ins. 

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[disquiet0679] icy fates

on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms.

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku574-on-new-years-day/

Corruptures [ naviarhaiku574 ]

This strange little tune uses only the single spoken word 'pine' as it's sole source material, making use of various forms of sampling and manipulation, including the wonderful Synplant 2 ... Enjoy! 😁

Although be careful, it's so odd the SC algorithm has warned me it won't be recommending it to potentially interested listeners ... Presumably, it's not considered 'music' by the machine?! Result! 😜

Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

Haiku by Kagami Shikō: https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2012/03/kagami-shiko.html

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

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halF pinE [naviarhaiku575]

This track came together slowly, organically, over a period of weeks. Finishing is often a fraught exercise and this one was no different. I am thankful for the timing of this week's disquiet junto, and the finishing prompt—it reminded me of this track and helped nudge and motivate me to finally complete it and share it. 

The title reflects the sound. When recording and mixing it, I was struck by how much of its sonic feel reminded me of the early pioneers of synthesis. Rather than move away from that sound, or stop and permanently shelve it, I opted to lean into it and just went with it. It wasn't pre-planned, quite the opposite, it just happened without effort or heavy conceptualizing. Maybe its ease of coming together—nearly fully formed with just a few takes—is why I neglected it, till now, and resisted calling it done.

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Pioneers - Disquiet0680

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt, "Reverse Resolution", challenged us to finish something that we had left unfinished in 2024. 

During the holiday break I wrote a new piece for an upcoming album from my Sudre's Violin postpunk project, and just for fun produced it as a recording of a "rare live performance". My intention was to also record a canonical "studio version" of the song at some point. So why not now?

If you try to dance to this song, I will not be held responsible for any damages or injuries that occur. Features Yamaha piano, a lead instrument made from a tortured dobro sample, synthethic bass, hand-programmed drums, and some vintage pads. 

(If you want to hear the original "live" version, it's here: https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/the-puzzle-box-waltz-live)

More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

The Puzzle Box Waltz (disquiet0680)

one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon

Marco from Naviar Records couldn't find any information about a haiku poet whose pen name was Senjo. He came across this poem in The Penguin Book of Haiku, but there's no mention of his/her life or other works. However, he liked it so much that he decided to share it anyway and hopes you'll find it inspiring, too.

If anyone else has more information on this mysterious haiku poet, please get in touch with Naviar Records and they'll update the description.

Haiku by Senjo

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

halF withdrawN [naviarhaiku578]

Memories Motion (LoFi Dreams Improvisation 03-12-2025)

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