Name: [naviarhaiku532] wordless by how the night came
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Description: two layers of live guitar processed through tracktion "novum"; two layers of guitar harmonics and fretboard noise fed into neural dsp plini x; one channel of church organ and another of frozen strings; efx fragments and subsonic reverb for depth.

Solace

Emblectysm

Studio  E .

Shadowed

https://open.spotify.com/album/1hfPBkKWQOfpe4uvOBlZ8w

Stairway

trommel faining

Use headphones for this run. These are fields recordings heard in the Riifles & Garbage Podcast Second Edition. There is a stream called Bogdanka, a VLF radio grab, the water under a beaver's dam recorded with hydrophones and from above, the Warta river, a hydrophone recording of a pond in Solacz in summer, a pond in Wilson's Park in the winter (mostly carp rustling against the miccrophone cables I think, various birds in Poland and a cage full of baby chickens at a market in Tasnad, Romania. There may be other things in there too but I have to listen again to be more precise. Feel free to ask in comments.

Stream That Does Not Drink Itself

The first thunder
Is likely to shake
The tiered doll stand.

Like Santoka and Seisensui, Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937) was an important advocate of the free verse haiku.
Besides being a writer and critic of haiku, Hekigoto was a literary scholar, noh dancer, art critic, calligrapher, social commentator, and mountain climber.
 

Haiku by Kawahigashi Hekigoto

Picture by Yusuf Evli

Submission deadline: 13th March 2024


This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

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The First Thunder (naviarhaiku531)

two layers of live guitar processed through tracktion "novum"; two layers of guitar harmonics and fretboard noise fed into neural dsp plini x; one channel of church organ and another of frozen strings; efx fragments and subsonic reverb for depth.

[naviarhaiku532] wordless

Mbane

Only the river shines in the moonlight
And beyond the water an unknown tribe

This people used to care for you, through rain and thunder
And yet we came here to plunder 

Lighting campfires, makes a commotion
Tomorrow we’ll meet and define this space
Who’ll be the ruler of this place,

Inspired by Nikolai Gumilev

Mbane

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project: Putting the ageing of a stone into music.
Stones can live for a very long time, but there are also external influences on a much shorter time scale. In my composition I included the monotonous phases, but also these external events, and tried to put them into appropriate music.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit 60 years ago, back in 1964.

A Day In The Life Of Stone (Disquiet0643)

how the night came

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