my monthly report 
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in the pic: Aleksandr Scriabin

"musica assoluta" (dicembre 2023)

Deadline: 3rd January 2024

All submissions to Haiku 521:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku521-basking/

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 (naviarhaiku382)”
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.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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haiku #521: Basking / in the New Year's sun... / my trashy hut

Naviar Haiku submissions

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers
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1 dicembre 2023
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Nel Museo nazionale romano di palazzo Altemps si conserva una testa in marmo che secondo la tradizione rappresenta un’Erinni addormentata. Gli occhi chiusi, i ciuffi dei capelli scarmigliati sulla fronte e la guancia, le labbra appena dischiuse, il volto della Furia – se di una Furia si tratta, sia essa Aletto, Megera o Tisifone – riposa quieto su un cuscino di buio marmo, come se sognasse.
Una furia che invece di gemere e urlare, scuotendo la chioma serpentina, chiude gli occhi e sogna, smentisce se stessa. Eppure proprio e soltanto il sogno o il sonno di una furia assomiglia al pensiero. Il pensiero non è soltanto contemplazione, è innanzitutto furore. Si dà pensiero, si dà contemplazione, solo se prima vi è stato furore, se guardando l’abominio degli umani e del mondo, la mente – diceva Bruno – discesa «ne la parte più inferna… si sente lacerare e sbranare». E solo se nel nostro eroico furore riusciamo a chiudere gli occhi e sognare, si ha vera quiete, si ha visione e teoria. I nostri sogni non sono allora fantasie a occhi aperti, che sappiamo ingannevoli e vane, ma verità a cui, anche se con gli occhi chiusi, non possiamo non credere, perché abbiamo prima visto la vendetta e l’errore. Il pensiero è questo acquietarsi del furore, è un’Erinni che sogna.

13 novembre 2023
Giorgio Agamben

Furore che sogna [1]

Ansynda [part 2]

Meanwhile, in a parallel dimension...

The assignment: describe a shadow using sound.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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-0622-know-the-shadow/

throwing shade [disquiet0622]

Marco Lucchi : piano and synthesizers
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for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2023/11/30/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/
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4 dicembre 2023

Afterlife [disquiet # 0622]

My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 521.
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa
Basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut

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

::::>>>>::Journey To The Sun::::::Naviar Haiku 521

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)

29Dec23

My naviarhaiku521 submission;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/737852018027298816/naviarhaiku521-basking
:D

basking in the New Year's sun [naviarhaiku521]

Huge thanks and appreciation to xtrgamr who provided the crowd countdown, which can be found @ https://freesound.org/people/xtrgamr/sounds/239496/

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

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

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

more halF unusuaL

halF trashY [naviarhaiku521]

Seramind - Casa Mea (naviarhaiku521)

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

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Casa Mea (naviarhaiku521)

Composition inspired by haiku written by Kobayashi Issa

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

Basking in the Sun

Basking in the Sun - (naviarhaiku521)

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?)

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

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https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selene 

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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.