c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

questo mese dedica speciale per Jonny Greenwwod

"musica assoluta" (agosto 2020)

All submissions to Haiku 343:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/29/naviarhaiku343-persistently-i-stare/

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)”

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haiku #343: Persistently I stare / At the moon / Still I cannot hear

Naviar Haiku submissions

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?)

Marco Lucchi : synth, tape and treatments

morphing and playing along "Water" by Jonny Greenwood

Lisa Moore : piano
Olivia De Prato : violin
Lauren Radnofsky : cello
Greg Chudzik : bass
Paul Coleman and Elena Moon Park : tanpura

to Olivier Messiaen

A glass of water [alt version]

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

2020-07-30

Persistently I Stare At The Moon Still I Cannot Hear ( Naviarhaiku 343 )

Persistently I stare
At the moon
Still I cannot hear

haiku by Sugiyama Sanpu https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2012/10/sugiyama-sanpu.html
picture by Guzmán Barquín https://unsplash.com/@guzmanbarquin

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

fishnet stapler

halF persistenT [naviarhaiku343]

But There Is Something ( Naviarhaiku 343 )

Solitary simplicity cried out to me for this one

But the Moon Does Not Stare Back

But The Moon Does Not Stare Back (NaviarHaiku 343)

1Aug20

My naviarhaiku343 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/29/naviarhaiku343-persistently-i-stare/
:D

Boson Spin - Staring at the Moon [naviarhaiku343]

Previews of the new album by Quiet Places (Dennis White, https://soundcloud.com/charliemay and Dave Gardner), available on Transparent Gatefold 2LP and digital August 17th on A Strangely Isolated Place asip.me/asipv023

Quiet Places / Volume 1 (ASIPV023) [Previews]

20200801(1

This week's Naviar Haiku is by Sugiyama Sanpu:

Persistently I stare / At the moon / Still I cannot hear

This is a few layers of JP8080, BassStation2, and Summit

I Stare At The Moon (NaviarHaiku343)

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 

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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.