<i>very</i> menacing start. the looming sense will make a great opening for the gig i think.. good luck!

Naviar Haiku submissions

naviarhaiku596 – spring dream…
June 4, 2025
spring dream…
not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

by: Konishi Raizan

Pianoforte (4 linee) Reaktor (Korrel e sequencers).

Unberable Spring (naviarhaiku596)

#4208 92.75% 329 left): Jun. 21, 2025: and all that famous harmony of leaves  (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

 

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Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )

 

Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:

This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

 

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"wind of mysteriousness" - the 30th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

 

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spotify:

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and all that famous harmony of leaves - #4208 (92R77 percent 328 left) by chair house 250622 2

So sing the leaves of Willow.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

disquiet0705 - Lubadh

Fajny Zinek

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 602

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

This week's challenge features a poem by the greatest master of haiku, Matsuo Bashō.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō

Picture by Michel Stockman
 

Submission deadline: 23rd July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Sweet Elderpath (naviarhaiku602)

for The FURICO Music Team
https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783
July 19, 2025

CONFUSING LIGHTS (for The FURICO Music Team)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
603
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

2025-07-23

insect tremolo (Naviarhaiku (603)

Mellow instrumental
Music by David Michael Turnbow

remixed recording from 1986, with Fred Shepard (lead guitar)

First of May

https://youtube.com/shorts/yTAz05U07aw?feature=share

We All Love The Same, So...

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 week's NaviarHaiku is by Back Roads Haiku: "North of the mountains / alien and dangerous / - darkening clouds" .

I wanted to express the feeling of clouds, which usually involves a certain amount of lightness, but for this haiku it needed an element of darkness too, some 'grit' to make them a little menacing.  I created a patch on the BassStation2, which starts out as just noise and distortion, but gradually I bring in the other oscillators. The dry BS2 signal is not present - it is totally through the Strymon BigSky reverb, so has a nice 'pad' sound even though it is monophonic. As the track progresses, I add some delayed signal, which means you get to hear some of the notes as they play. Over the top of this, I am also playing ad-lib on the modular.   This is a 100% live take, recorded straight into the computer, no post processing or overdubs.  

I am also preparing for a live gig on 4th June, and I think this piece may form the basis of the opening section....


North Of The Mountain (NaviarHaiku124)

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
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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.

North Of The Mountain (NaviarHaiku124)

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