faves of this month
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in the pic: John Fahey

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2024)

Deadline: 3rd April 2024

All submissions to Haiku 534:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku534-pre-dawn-inertia/

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
Naviar Records store: www.naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

haiku #534: Pre-dawn inertia / Where do I go / From here?

Naviar Haiku submissions

One of the first people I met on this platform was the wonderful Societe Cantine. He listened with open ears and offered indepth thoughts on my music and sparked conversation and experimentation. He, himself a mind-blowing sound artist, has released a  string of albums over the last decade that still sing with originality and genre breaking optimism. We danced round the edges of collaboration for a longtime, adding little bits of sound to bigger projects or producing video. Just before COVID hit the world we finally met in Paris - I had so much talk about, as did he.. like children we struggled with face to face language; his english is good, my french is terrible : ) We decided that we should finally start collaborating in depth and this is the first piece - conceived and played with, back and forth during lockdown COVID times. Naturally enough we titled it Language Gap after our initial stumbling meeting. It got an honourary mention in the 2023 One Minute Radio Festival and through that has been played all over the world . Fardeau Losange (as he now known) and I are working now, very slowly on some sort of album - it will take forever, but its almost secondary to the friendship that has grown around the music we have listened to, written and shared on this platform.   https://societecantine.bandcamp.com/album/lopacit-des-interlignes

Language Gap (Fardeau Losange/Mat Ward)

Electronic composition, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Easy (naviarhaiku530)

1Mar24

My naviarhaiku530 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/743612557262274560/naviarhaiku530-taking-it-easy
:D

taking it easy [naviahaiku530]

Marco Lucchi : piano, mellotron and tape
Akemi Takeya : shamisen and voice

marzo 2024

Iki no kôzô # 2 - w/Akemi Takeya

I sent music I titled "Ravine" to Paulo Chagas, who listened closely to it and responded with his alto sax. Our album explores this close listening in context of various mental landscapes, with this piece, being in a metaphoric ravine.

In A Ravine, (Matthies And Chagas)

How could I not work on this week's Haiku challenge, when it was written by our glorious leader himself?
I tried to capture the feeling of emptiness after something big has finished, but then the urge to get moving again starts tickling...

Pre-dawn inertia
Where do I go
From here?

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi (founder of Naviar Records.)

Picture by Dameli Zhantas

Pre-Dawn Inertia (Naviarhaiku534)

Enjoy the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/t3AsvEyUhXc

Pre-dawn inertia
Where do I go
From here?

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF intertiA [naviarhaiku534]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
534
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku534-pre-dawn-inertia/
train sound  https://freesound.org/people/bassboybg/sounds/218925/

224-03-28

Pre - Dawn Inertia (Naviarhaiku 534)

two drum and bass drum loops hand cut and glitched. layers of distortion, feedback, electric guitar, sub drones, voices and multiple field recorded one shots.

[naviarhaiku534] dawn, pre-inertia

29Mar24

My Naviarkaiku534 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/746205559437557760/naviarhaiku534-pre-dawn-inertia
:D

Pre-dawn inertia [naviarkaiku534]

Electronic composition, an evolving structured drone-like sequence, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Lassitude (naviarhaiku534)

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: 
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.