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haiku #590: dreadful the stream / without so much as a name! / early-summer rains

this is a contribution to the haiku challenge of naviar records #581:

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

-Kobayashi Issa -

touching the water (naviarhaiku581)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 23 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths & effects.

This original version of "Downstream Procrastination" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 590: Dreadful The Stream.

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

by: Yosa Buson

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 28 Jun 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA on the edge of the woods. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Downstream Procrastination (naviarhaiku590)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Nameless Stream (naviarhaiku590)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
590
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream/

2025-04-26

dreadful the stream ( Naviarhaiku 590 )

26Apr25
My naviarhaiku590 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/781632883124224001/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream
:D

early summer rains [naviarhaiku590]

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream/

Thank you Marco.

Dreadful the stream (naviarhaiku590)

[naviarhaiku590] without a name

except for the introduction, found in this year this is an idea from last year.. originally thought as an opening for the song entitled Go outside.
Take three, Only a minimal editing was applied

Work in progress

Le printemps (avec l'hiver au cœur) *Take three

One take with a bit of double-tracking. Made for naviar Records' 593rd Haiku Challenge

The piercing moon [naviarhaiku593]

KREATUR

Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond -
swallows in autumn
(Dakotsu Īda)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku595-under-the-twilight-sky/
Komposition1071 Klavier

light shimmering on the pond (naviarhaiku595)

I filled my gap with Alain Badiou ... for a change ... Excerpts from the brilliant European Graduate School video of Badiou lecturing in English on the Subject of Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBxf_hncrN8

More on the 701st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gap Ear — The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces — at https://disquiet.com/0701/

more halF unusuaL

halF voiD [disquiet0701]

A standard jazz ballad chord progression treated as an abstract ambient soundscape with three tracks of electric bass and 3 tracks of synthesisers.

Created June 12th 2025 For this haiku:

orchids by night –
within their fragrance looms
their blossoms’ white!

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson
Picture by Nataliia Davydenko

Orchids by Night -  naviarhaiku597

Here's my musical contribution to this week's haiku from excellent @naviar-records. 

rain rituals - 
if the gods are here now 
to see the paddies
 
by: Takarai Kikaku

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku599-rain-rituals/

Rain rituals (naviarhaiku599)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 602

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

This week's challenge features a poem by the greatest master of haiku, Matsuo Bashō.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō

Picture by Michel Stockman
 

Submission deadline: 23rd July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Sweet Elderpath (naviarhaiku602)

This song is for Palestine. The voices at the end of the track were recorded during a pro-Palestine demonstration in Naples.

My name has dissolved
letter by letter, into the air.
My dreams have vanished in a timeless sky
I don't remember my face
Jewish soldiers stole it
They dissolved it
And now I no longer have a name, nor a face
Like my land, torn and devastated.

Don't stop fighting
Give my name a face again.
Give freedom to my land.
Free Palestine



Nameless Children

Nameless children

how the night came

>> soundtracks for soundscapes

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

[naviarhaiku590] without a name

how the night came

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