Naviar Haiku submissions

All submissions to Haiku 191:

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/08/30/naviarhaiku191-springtime-in-edo/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- Upload your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku145)”

Your track will be included in Naviar's weekly podcast and monthly compilation. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix it by using a Creative Commons License.

Haiku #191: Springtime in Edo, / Not a day passes without / A temple bell sold.

ikjoyce Not a Day Passes

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?)

DD, Paris, Summer 2017
Cello, Uprigth basses, samples: strings and brass

Music for this Haiku by Takarai Kikaku:

    Springtime in Edo,
    Not a day passes without
    A temple bell sold. 

    鐘ひとつ賣れぬ日はなし江戸の春

Photo by Cater Yang
https://unsplash.com/@rugeli

@naviar-records
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/08/30/naviarhaiku191-springtime-in-edo/

spring is coming, somewhere somehow

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
191 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/
Roland HPD 20,  "Sakuhashi"=Yamaha mx49

2017-08-31

Springtime in Edo (Naviarhaiku 191)

This week's haiku is by Takarai Kikaku:
Springtime in Edo, / Not a day passes without / A temple bell sold

I created a slowly drifting patch on the modular, using multiple clocks that gradually speed up and slow down. The sequences driven by these clocks interlock, such that the whole feels integrated. Over this, I ad libbed on BS2, JP-8080, and nord piano, with lots of effects (reverb and delays)

Not A Day Passes (naviarhaiku191)

Naviarhaiku191 – Springtime in Edo
Edo Spring (naviarhaiku191)


Springtime in Edo,
Not a day passes without
A temple bell sold

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku http://simplyhaiku.com/SHv4n4/renku/springtime.html
Picture by Tim de Groot https://unsplash.com/@timdegroot

Nature sounds recorded at Pinnacles National Monument on May 3, 2017.

Thanks to RTB45 and pashupati_007 for the bell sounds on freesound.org and Soul Candle on You Tube.

Edo Spring (naviarhaiku191)

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.