A real sense of a journey with this track - superb!

love how these notes vibrate together!! I really dig your style!!

this is so good! magical texture!! i love the energy it has, yet it is soothing!!!! well done!!!

All submissions to Haiku 368:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/01/20/naviarhaiku368-a-river-in-january/

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.

- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

- 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 #368: A river in January / running through / a January valley

Sound Emerges in the Mist: Gaze and Dissolution

Acousmatic Sketch No.5 [2025-05-07]
Music & Photo by Shih-Lin Hung

Acousmatic Sketch No.5 [2025-05-07]

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

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku

Picture by Ritz

KiKaKuKaKi [ naviarhaiku599 ]

The first sentence of Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig is, "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning."

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.

more halF unusuaL

halF icanseebymywatcH [disquiet0705]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
601
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

2025-07-10

pulling light  from the other world . . . (Naviarhaiku 601 )

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)

Korg monotron with loop pedal and tape delay (in that order). Added some strings and brass afterwards.

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

insect tremolo-naviarhaiku603

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by: Tōge Morita

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita

Picture by Kyle Bushnell

Join The Naviar Haiku Music Challenge
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.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page. https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

SONG 114 - NaviarHaiku604 - In Spring Sunlight

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
606
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku606-slightly-faint/

20250814

slightly faint (Naviarhaiku 606)

Faint yet clear (naviarhaiku606)

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project: The barcode of the softcover Penguin edition of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was used as the timeline for the rhythm, and the track was created with this beat as inspiration.
The other elements followed, found through intuition or happy accidents.
The result is a far groovier track than I initially assumed.

More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/

Thinking Fast and Slow (Disquiet0712)

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

2021-01-22

a river in january ( Naviarhaiku 368 )

response to a "River in January" * Haiku -juxtaposed with the dry creek bed here in January (southern hemisphere) :)


A river in January
running through
a January valley

haiku by Iida Dakotsu https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/iida-ryuta.html

https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

RiverChronographs(naviarhaiku368)

Winter in the North. A mix of recorded sound & electronics.

A January Blast (naviarhaiku368)

a river in January
running through
a January valley

naviarhaiku368: a river in January

This week's Haiku is by Iida Dakotsu: 
A River In January / running through / a January valley

I took the idea of a 'January valley' as meaning a slow, quiet, melancholic time, and imagined myself standing in the cold and letting my mind wander like a river.

A River In January (naviarhaiku368)

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

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.

A River In January (naviarhaiku368)

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