even the fields
have a morning attitude
blue mist

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

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Marcel Gross https://unsplash.com/@marcelgross_ch

Blue Mist (NaviarHaiku412)

A single-take improvisation on Nord Piano, Viscount Legend Live, Novation BassStaton2, and Novation Summit, all processed by the modular using Lubadh and Clouds, with a little EHX #1 echo and Strymon BigSky for good measure. 

The scent of a rose
In the forgotten greenhouse,
A fluttering ghost.

Merle Bardenoir is a French musician, artist and poet carrying an ambient project called Glamourie. Imbued with symbolism, his universe blends avant-garde and folklore, nature and fantasy. Ranging from traditional drawings to fantastic short stories, his multidisciplinary creations display an elegant and mysterious sensitivity.

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

Deadline: 12th April 2023

haiku by Merle Bardenoir https://glamouriemusic.wordpress.com

picture by Nathan Wright https://unsplash.com/@cozmicphotos

Scent Of A Rose(NaviarHaiku483)

(Didn't really get the Vikings in, but this is what came out of this week's haiku for me.)

misty daydream
Vikings land on the shore
of my childhood

(Published on “Songbirds Online,” The United Haiku and Tanka Society, 2022)

Michael Dudley (michaeljdudley.com) was born in downtown Toronto and reared in the Greater Toronto Area.  He later lived and worked for 35 years in rural Southwestern Ontario.  From May 2018 until June 2020 he continuously travelled.  He is the father of three adults and the author of numerous poetry collections, including pilgrimage:  ha!ku selected & new, Red Moon Press, 2017.

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

Deadline: 19th April 2023

haiku by Michael Dudley http://michaeljdudley.com

picture by frame harirak https://unsplash.com/@framemily

The Shore Of My Childhood (naviarhaiku484)

A simple chord sequence courtesy of Tonnetz Sequent, which is split between a chord that has its filter rhythmically opened and a muxlicer arpeggiating through the oscillators. I played with the volume and reverb settings as it ran through for a few minutes. Should be plenty of space for more parts to go over this.

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

The Loneliest Number(disquiet0591)

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.

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

Deadline: 31st May 2023

Haiku by Pritee Rel https://twitter.com/PriteeRel

Picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/photos/pfBwKO8rzjY

Wood Anemones (NaviarHaiku490)

morning glow
buttercups flutter
at the forest’s edge

Catherine LoFrumento lives in Connecticut with her husband and fur babies. Her poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals and anthologies including: Cattails, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, bottle rockets, Chrysanthemum, Hedgerow Journal, Three Line Poetry, and Poetry Quarterly. You can find more of her work on Twitter: @Catherin03 and on Instagram: @Poetrycatt

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

Deadline: 7th June 2023

Haiku by Catherine LoFrumento https://twitter.com/Catherin03

Picture by Alessandro Capuzzi https://unsplash.com/@aleeecap

Morning Glow (NaviarHaiku491)

gale in the mountains –
watch how the fallen blossoms
carpet the water

A contemporary of Basho, Den Sutejo was the eldest daughter of a distinguished samurai family living in the mountainous area northwest of Kyoto. After her husband’s death, she became a nun and spent the final years of her life as a Zen devotee.

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

Deadline: 15th November 2023

Haiku by: Den Sutejo [Translated by Makoto Ueda] https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html

Picture by Gariele Wright https://unsplash.com/photos/closeup-photo-of-pink-petaled-flower-uSkJ0rk9OBE

Fallen Blossom (NaviarHaiku514)

basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut
 

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.

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

Deadline: 3rd January 2023

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Jonathan M. Hethey https://unsplash.com/photos/photography-of-grass-with-sun-light-ka9D9DiEVvw

Basking (NaviarHaiku521)

Happy Drone Day! Here's a 20 minute improvised drone on Novation BS2, Summit, Modular synth, and a little Legend Live organ for good measure.

DroneDay2024

I write, erase, rewrite
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms.

This is the death poem of Tachibana Hokushi, sometimes wrongly attributed to the Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai.

Tachibana Hokushi, whose real name was Tachibana Genjiro, was born in Kanazawa in 1665. Hokushi was one of Basho’s most famous students at the time, and he even accompanied the great master during part of his famous journey through the narrow roads of the North, from Kanazawa to Matsuoka.

Haiku by Tachibana Hokushi

Picture by Pawel Czerwinski

A Poppy Blooms (Naviarhaiku557)

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Picture by Ben Collins

Resplendent (NaviarHaiku569)

First play with the modular in ages. Two simple sequences driving three distinct parts. 

January Rain

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

As customary, the first haiku of the year is by Kobayashi Issa.

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.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Picture by Yosuke Ota

Corrupt World's Blossoms (NaviarHaiku574)

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.

Distant Pines(NaviarHaiku575)

A play with the modular, started out as a big evolving patch that then crystalized into this more repetitive jam thing. 

12Jan2025Jam

The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

There is just one step to this project. Record a piece of music in which half of the material is recorded in a highly reverberant space (or has spaciousness applied to it through effects) and half of the material is just sound in isolation, devoid of any sense of space or place.

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Space Shot (Disquiet0683)

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills
 

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

 

haiku by Raymond Cobley

picture by Inggrid Koe
 

Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

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

Fog Dissolves To Rain (NaviarHaiku586)

rising sun
and nothing else –
misty sea!

Inoue Shiro (1742-1812) was a doctor and poet from Nagoya.

haiku by Inoue Shiro

picture by Vlad Kostiuk
 

Submission deadline: 23rd April 2025

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

Rising sun over a misty sea (naviarhaiku589)

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

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 Batuhan Doğan

 

Submission deadline: 30th April 2025

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

Early Summer Rains (naviarhaiku590)

steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino! 

Ōshima Ryōta was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. Some sources say he was a disciple of Yosa Buson, while others say his master was Hattori Ransetsu. He's mostly remembered for his essay “Bashō ku kai” 芭蕉句解 ('Study of Bashō's haiku') published in 1759, a magnum opus of his studies and literary theories on Matsuo Bashō's work.

Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta

picture by Soubhagya Ranjan

Submission deadline: 7th May 2025

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

Steady Spring Rains (naviarhaiku591)

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear

Marc Sheridan is an ever-curious person who loves what is just around the corner: the unusual and the mysterious. Even everyday objects and scenes can always be viewed differently.

He is English but currently living in the US, and he always remembers what Ansel Adams once said, "You don't take a photograph, you make it." Marc believes that photography rewards him with a greater connection to everything around him.

Lately, Marc has been writing haiku, but he's not sure whether he illustrates his photos with haiku or reveals his haiku through photography.

He has been published in numerous magazines in the US and the UK and has exhibited up and down the West Coast of the US for the past 23 years.

Haiku and pic by: Marc Sheridan

Submission deadline: 14th May 2025

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

Warm Hazy (naviarhaiku592)

First play with the Pro One and Kobol Expander integrated with the modular for sequencing and modulation. Extra sound sources include Dark Energy, some 2HP drums, and a few layers of Summit

Synthpop Idea 03Jun2025

A one-take improvised ambient jam. Modular synth, Dark Energy, Behringer Pro One & Kobol Expander, Novation Summit & BS2, Nord Piano.

Ambient Jam (18Jun2025)

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Hosomi Ayako (1907–1997) was a prominent haiku poet from Aogaki, Hyogo. After a series of personal tragedies, including the deaths of her husband and mother, she found solace in haiku during an illness. She later married Sawaki Kinichi, leader of the modern haiku group Kaze, and was deeply involved in the haiku community until her passing at 90.

Haiku by Hosomi Ayako

Picture by Tam DV

Submission deadline: 25th June 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

After The Typhoon (NaviarHaiku598)

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal
 

Submission deadline: 9th July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Thinking Of Us (NaviarHaiku600)

A piano improvisation on the opening two lines of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.



To Begin At The Beginning (Disquiet0705)

17 July Thing

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/

The Mountain Path (NaviarHaiku602)

This week's Haiku is by Santoka:
Wind blows it's way to sea. Deep in night. Alone.

I took a different approach this week, layering up several sounds from my BS2. Streichfett, JP-8080, D-05, and Nord Piano so that they were playable from my MC2000 master keyboard, and then performing a live ad-lib using them, switching them in and out as I played.  I also used an unusual reverb on the BigSky to add more strangeness to the atmosphere. This is a single take, recorded direct from the mixer.

The Wind Blows (naviarhaiku202)

For this week's junto, I imagined being a passenger on the "Titan" Interstellar Cruiser. Sadly after spending all my money on the latest Martian modular synth gear, I could only afford to go steerage class, so my cabin is not too well soundproofed... 

 I recorded various background sounds from around the house (fridge compressor, washing machine and dishwasher, computer fans, a tape being rewound, an old floppy disk drive being read, a recorder spinning on a record player deck... etc...) and then processed each recording to create a series of different ambiences, some designed to feel closer and some more distant. I then layered these up and played aound with them until I had my ambience.  

More on this 383rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Interstellar Ambience / The Assignment: Record the sound of an apartment in a large interstellar ship — at:

https://disquiet.com/0383/ 3

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 4

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0383-interstellar-ambience/ 7

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Pedro Moura Pinheiro:

https://flic.kr/p/4MpgvY 1

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

SpaceShip "Titan" Interstellar Cruiser - steerage class cabin ambience(disquiet0383)

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
-Experiments may appear on YouTube from time to time: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ikjoyce
-Albums will be released on Bandcamp: 
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/

New album "The Endless Solitude Of A Skylark's Song" now available:
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-solitude-of-a-skylarks-song

Album 'Selene' now available on Cassette / Download from Naviar Records: 
https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selene 

**Albums now available on iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, Spotify, and Google Play**  

I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.

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