If you have a DARK ambient, ritual, gloomy atmospheric track, and if you want to be on this playlist, send me a message.

Dark Ambient

my listenings during the month of April, 2021

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in copertina Virginia Astley

"musica assoluta" (aprile 2021)

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

All submissions to Haiku 381:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/04/21/naviarhaiku381-beyond-the-curtain/

To participate:

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

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

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- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

Haiku #381 beyond the curtain / a quiet depth – / northern plum blossoms

Naviar Haiku submissions

Songs I like!

Noir

Music For Quiet Moments 49 - Time Calls

Music For Quiet Moments 49 - Time Calls (Charlotte 22 Feb 2006)

Diffused Dead Icon Inspires Hobbyist To Exceed Entry Level Building Skills is the first track from a new project called "Then She Reaches For The Gun". Its inspiration is two fold: Firstly its a homage to some of the stuff i grew up listening to like Mr. Bungle and other noisy bastards where anything goes, and often in quick fire succession and secondly its a chance to work with an never ending stream of talented musicians that i have known for years either in real life Australia or via the Internet. Each track will no doubt change depending on who has sent me what. On this particular little thing we have the following personal
Dane Renshaw ( Australia/Japan)   - Drums
Primaloops (Australia)                      - Drums/Percussion
Frank Wilke (Germany)                     - Trumpet
Paul Miller(U.S.A)                              - Keyboards
Dani Kirby (Australia)                       - Piano
Juan A Miñana (Canary Islands)      - Electronics
Phil Bywater                                         - Tenor Sax
Carolyn Wigston                                  - Voice
Glenn Ward                                          - Guitar
Neska Wigston                                     - Barking/Growling
Me                                                         - Bass Guitar/Noise/arrangement

The process is simple, I collect a bunch of random recordings from people and then see what i can arrange from it. Nothing subtle here, just huge noisy fun : ) I am open to anyone that thinks they might like to be part of this mess. Drop me a message and i will send you my email. The only criteria is that i wont be using samples from TV/film/other music etc, so just original stuff played on instruments, field recordings, stupid drunk conversations etc. Thanks to everyone involved, i am having a ball

Diffused Dead Icon Inspires Hobbyist To Exceed Entry Level Building Skills

Guitars (Fender telecaster, Gibson Les Paul), ebow, tube amplifiers (Epiphone and Fender)

Composed and performed by DD during Lockdown, late 2020.


Photo by DD, Buenos Aires circa 2017.

A video with this track: https://youtu.be/R7jQr5YpIxg

Antipoético

Skewook [part 2]

Marco Lucchi : analog synthesizer and organ

2 aprile 2021

Sutra

beyond the curtain
a quiet depth –
northern plum blossoms

haiku by Shiba Sonome https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/shiba-sonome.html

picture by Cecile Hournau https://unsplash.com/@cecile_hournau

unfair latch

halF curtaiN [naviarhaiku381]

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

2021-04-22

beyond  the curtain  ( Naviarhaiku 381 )

beyond the curtain
a quiet depth –
northern plum blossoms

Shiba Sonome (1664–1726) was a haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashô. In her book Those Women Writing Haiku, Jane Reichhold wrote about her: “One sees that most of these women gained access to the inner circle around Basho by being related either by marriage or blood to one of his disciples. It is possible that Shiba Sonome was one of the few to be accepted as a poet on her own. ”

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Asmruh

Blum Plossom

Blum Plossom (naviarhaiku381)

beyond the curtain
a quiet depth - 
northern plum blossoms

naviarhaiku381: beyond the curtain

Beyond (naviarhaiku381)

This week's haiku is by Shiba Sonome: 
beyond the curtain
a quiet depth –
northern plum blossoms

A Quiet Depth (NaviarHaiku381)

Lunar Modifier

A piece composed for the Naviar Haiku http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

"Someone else's clock / During the long night / I count all the strikes"

This is a modular piece that uses two quantisers that are transposed throughout the piece such that they are never in the same key.  These drive two pairs of oscillators, one from each pair ring modulated with one from the other pair to give the bell like sounds. A lot of complex sequencing involving prime numbers and different length sequences ensures it never quite repeats.

Someone Else's Clock [naviarhaiku101 - Someone else's clock]

Through the ages
rising above the mountains
tonight's moon

Haiku by Inoue Shiro

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/136732575773/naviarhaiku105-through-the-ages

The repeating sequence represents starlight (and the 'ages'), the brassy sound is the mountain, and the higher shimmering melodic line that appears gradually is the rising moon. 

Tonight's Moon [Naviarhaiku105 - Through the ages]

My attempt at some music for Naviar Haku 106: Sunrays.
I tried to represent the needles underfoot by the crispy noises, the dark mystery of the pine forest with the deep foreboding bass, offset by the brighter rays of sunlight, and then cut through by brighter shafts of light.

I am guessing the poem is saying that the pine trees look like snake gourds (which I hadn't heard of before - they are long and thin and hang down off their vines - I can imagine the trunks of pines would look like them in the bright sunshine?)

"Sunrays - 
Between the pines we see 
snake gourds"

Poem by Ichihara Tayo-Jo

Sunrays [Naviarhaiku106 - Sunrays]

This is my entry for this week's Naviar Haiku:

"The sleet falls / As if coming through the bottom / Of loneliness"
Haiku by Naito Joso

This is as usual 100% modular,  one take, straight into the  computer. The reverb is Strymon BigSky, and the Mix and Tone levels are being controlled by the modular via the expression pedal input. 

The Sleet Falls [Naviarhaiku107 - The Sleet Falls]

My entry for NaviarHaiku 114 - http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

"Where do you come from? / Borders on Earth fall away / as we fly upwards" - poem by David Pulsford

This is a modular piece that uses multiple LFOs and envelopes both as modulation sources and as a method of triggering events (using a comparator) - meaning that the outcome is derived from simple rules but exhibits complex behaviour - much like the universe. And us. 

From Whence We Came (Naviarhaiku114 -where do you come from?)

Zumaia - Evol

Event Horizon

Jeremy J Saks - Event Horizon

Composed and performed by Francisco Nicosia

Larnaka Studio 2019

2019

Francisco Nicosia - Letter for Vangelis

Hmm, perhaps not as retired as I thought.

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.” 
Stanisław Lem, "Solaris"

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/the-stars-won-t-save-us

The stars won´t save us

Taken from the debut album 'The Atmospheric Synthesis', released 19 September 2019 on CD Baby:
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The Atmospheric Synthesis

The Immensity Of Spacetime

Scandinavian Homes - Redundant Machines

Redundant Machines

Mount Shrine presents us an album filled with radio chatter and warm drones layered on cold textures.

Your shortwave radio crackles with life as it rests on your heavy backpack. It follows your every step across the rough terrain as you narrow your search for the abandoned station. It is up here, far from civilization that the answers linger, lost for years as the stations self sustainability has kept it alive.

Recommended for fans of sedative ambient and for drifting into a place of comfort.

Shortwave Ruins

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Subtotem

Endless grey skies. Dim sunlight. Seeping cold...

Crystal Monuments

Ripples

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This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
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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.