Naviar Haiku submissions

Weekly music challenges inspired by haiku poetry. Find out more at http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

NH123: In his eyes / Sunlight glistens / The universe reflected

Naviar Haiku challenge 101 - 150

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?)

Here’s the haiku of the week, written by Max St. John; Max was inspired by playing on the beach with his four year-old son, on a cold morning on the south coast of England.



DEADLINE: 18th May
Poem by maxstjohn http://www.maxstjohn.com 

Picture by ignacio sagone https://www.flickr.com/photos/ignaciosagone 

On the mend [Naviarhaiku123 - In his eyes]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
123 week haiku 

In his eyes
Sunlight glistens
The universe reflected

Poem by maxstjohn
www.maxstjohn.com

Picture by ignacio sagone
www.flickr.com/photos/ignaciosagone

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Birds, tibetian bowls, jingle bells, koshi + nord lead a1r


so I see it [Naviarhaiku123 – In his eyes]

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vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GOYgDMkug&index=6&list=PLEmllIk802-Z0cVk5sttvtmCIp37ySZeZ

beach nostalgia: / grew up near brighton beach / landlocked now

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originally recorded for naviar haiku

In his eyes
Sunlight glistens
The universe reflected

Poem by maxstjohn http://www.maxstjohn.com

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

waves (in his eyes)

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2016/05/naviarhaiku123-in-his-eyes.html for track discussion.

A Friend's Eye Is A Good Mirror (edit) [Naviarhaiku123 - In his eyes]

This week's Naviar Haiku from Max St John, inspired by playing with his son on the beach: "In his eyes / sunlight glistens / the universe reflected"

For this, I imagined looking at the sparkling sun reflected in the child's eyes, and then getting drawn in and seeing there is more depth, and then drawn in further starting to see the child's universe opening up - all the memories had and those to come, overlapping in space and time... then a sudden jolt back to reality on the beach. 

I had the perfect sample of a child being extremely cute, a short snippet from a much longer recording of a park in Brussels (I was recording a violinist busking, but the brief noise made by the cute kid stole the show!). The beach was a recording I made in Brighton,  and the rest of the 'memories'  were raided from the last few years worth of field recordings, quite haphazardly overlaid with a few choice ones carefully placed for effect (like the swans flying overhead - an amazing sound!).  I didn't have as much time to work on this as I would have liked, otherwise all the samples might have been more carefully chosen and placed - but then a little aleatoric influence is not a bad thing.  

The shimmering synth is a BassStation2 playing an arpeggio of the Tristan chord, using a high pass filter to gradually add more lower frequencies, and the attack/decay/sustain constantly changing to adjust the type of sound from sharp points of light to smooth clouds of imagery. 

A Universe Reflected (NaviarHaiku123)

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

2016-09-22

One note of the shakuhachi (Naviar Haiku 142)

one note of the shakuhachi / resounds endlessly / piercing the winter clouds

all tonal sounds except the background pads and drums are created from a broken shakuhachi sample-CD, sampled in real time. 

sampled, mixed and mastered by www.stachy.dj

Naviarhaiku 142

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hofuku sochi 報復措置 - one note of the shakuhachi (or two?) [Naviarhaiku#142]

went literal: one held shakuhachi note, resonating at C1 - C6

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The haiku of the week was written by Sôen Nakagawa, a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world.

The shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute that was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 8th century. If you’re curious to hear how it sounds, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7s-wXZWT5o

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

DEADLINE: 28th September

Poem by Sôen Nakagawa

Picture by Anne James

shakuhachi d  r   i    f     t (naviarhaiku142)

Written as companion to the following Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa:

One note of the Shakuhachi
resounds endlessly
piercing the winder clouds



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Piercing Clouds

Piercing Clouds [NaviarHaiku142]

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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.