NH114: Where do you come from? / Borders on Earth fall away / As we fly upwards

Naviar Haiku submissions

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]

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/140747491353/naviarhaiku114-where-do-you-come-from

"Make music inspired by a haiku poem in seven days."

doing a series of recursions converting wav to midi to wav and so on, seeing if they converge. this is a chopped and squeezed version of one of them. one that reminded me of looking up at the fast ISS speck from my old balcony.

reiterations

Where Do You Come From ? (Naviarhaiku114)

Where do you come from ?
Borders of Earth fall away
As we fly upwards.

This is a 7-times time-stretched version of https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg/activating

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Naviarhaiku - Where Do You Come From?

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?)

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2016/03/naviarhaiku114-where-do-you-come-from.html for track discussion.

Remove Borders [Naviarhaiku114 - Where do you come from ?]

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

.............. .      .             .

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



For more information and to participate: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Piercing Clouds

Piercing Clouds [NaviarHaiku142]

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
-Experiments may appear on YouTube from time to time: 
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New album "The Endless Solitude Of A Skylark's Song" now available:
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Album 'Selene' now available on Cassette / Download from Naviar Records: 
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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.