"musica assoluta" (luglio 2021)

All submissions to Haiku 394:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/07/21/naviarhaiku394-having-a-dream/

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)”

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: naviarrecords.bandcamp.com
Subscribe/support the project: www.naviarrecords.com/support-us

haiku #394: having a dream / is part of the job … / rain in spring

Naviar Haiku submissions

Piano Pieces

Kuronami

Anna Mark Richter-music, voice, poetry, visual, cover

Vadimpetrenko: music, mixing, guitars, voice, vinyl, digital touch tools: generator, pianos, keyboards, e-contrabass, bass, e-clarinet, strings, brass, drums, percussion, chinese erhu, chinese lute /pipa/, koto, guzheng, chinese kit, taiko

I am a DNA owner,
That is my only passport!
I've got my secret number- 
My security password.

I am Combination of Numbers
Written by algorithm...
I am a DNA owner,
I have my own rhytm,
I am a DNA owner
It is my living license.

There is SO SOLAR SYSTEM 
always sunny around
One day it must be finished
Well, not now, not now...
I am a DNA owner
For a while,for a while...

Я - Комбинация Цифр
Я несу свой таинственный шифр
Я носитель своего ДНК,
Но это пока, это пока..
В этой системе так солнечно 
В этой системе ТАК СОЛНЕЧНО, 
Когда-нибудь это все кончится,
А пока....

DNA Owner-Voice Generators Soul Organ Chinese Kit And Chinese Erhu

JUST BEFORE A DISCOVERY

A piece for Naviar Records' weekly haiku challenge. As the first word is 'experimenting', I thought I'd experiment with odd time signatures. The haiku has 5, 5 and 8 syllables, so my piece is based round two bars of 5 beats and 1 bar of 8 beats. I also wanted the piece to be quite melodic with the melancholy feel of a moonlit night under the trees.

I Hung The Moon On Various Branches (naviarhaiku391) - Adrian Lane

Ghtcheona

I was actually just messing around for a few hours with some sounds and thinking of the heat wave we're having here in the UK. This was bubbling along and  I was playing some dead sounds on the piano when the Naviar Haiku came along, it seemed to fit the mood and the words. I then started a new arrangement to further focus the sounds on the words and meaning of the poem. Quite pleased with this. Not taken part in the Haiku challenge for a while so seemed a good time to come back to it.
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    having a dream
    is part of the job …
    rain in spring

    Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, “the Nun Shokyu” traveled to to the Deep North of Japan.

    Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

    Deadline: 28th July 2021

    haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/shokyu-ni.html

    picture by Corey Hearne https://unsplash.com/@socialcorey

     

    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 (naviarhaiku394)”

    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.

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

A Dream... Of Rain (naviarhaiku394)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
394week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.co
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/07/21/naviarhaiku394-having-a-dream/

2021-07-22

Having A Dream  ( Naviarhaiku 394 )

Track submitted for Naviar Haiku #394 challenge.

More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/07/21/naviarhaiku394-having-a-dream/

Dreamin' or Somethin'

Dreamin' Or Somethin' - Naviarhaiku394

A track for Naviar Records weekly haiku challenge, making a track in response to the haiku posted within one week. I wanted to capture the feeling of watching the rain hit the windows during a storm on a spring day. I also think the piece has a slightly medieval feel to it.

Rain In Spring (naviarhaiku394) - Adrian Lane

having a dream
is part of the job …
rain in spring

haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/shokyu-ni.html

picture by Corey Hearne https://unsplash.com/@socialcorey

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

flat harp

halF parT [naviarhaiku394]

A piano improv inspired by the haiku:

having a dream
is part of the job …
rain in spring

Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, “the Nun Shokyu” traveled to to the Deep North of Japan.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 28th July 2021

Rain In Spring (Naviarhaiku394)

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 Disquiet Junto project: Sight Read a painting as a graphical score. 

I examined the painting, noting the different types of symbol. I interpreted them thus:  
Black = Octaves and fifths
Red = Minor chord
White = Major chord
Horizontal line = broken chord (i.e linear) 
Vertical line = chord stab
Square = Held chord with broken chord underneath.
Where there were two lines above each other, I played two lines together. 

Examining the score closely, and you will notice that the third vertical line on the fourth row is actually more to the left than the other vertical lines - in that way I realised that each black line is three units long (hence the broken chords being three notes long). Each stab occurs at the third unit of a block of three , except that one on the fourth line that is on the first position. That is what gives rise to the unusual little syncopation just before the two major chords. 

This recording is of me literally sight reading the score at the piano.
I have tried a different one without the gaps as well, but I made a mistake so I need to re-record it when I have time. 

More on this 225th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Sight read a late-1940s painting by Argentine artist Lidy Prati as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0225/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image originally posted (and viewable in larger scale) at

http://blakegopnik.com/post/142806762364

Serial Killer (disquiet0225-serialcomposition)

This week's Disquiet Junto project: Sight Read a painting as a graphical score. 

(A stretched and pipe-organesque version of this is here: https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/reinterpretation-reinterpreted)

This is my second reinterpretation, and is a more reflective piece. 
I examined the painting, noting the different types of symbol. 
For ths version, I interpreted them thus:  
Black = Octaves and fifths (A and E)
Red = D minor 7th chord with A bass.
White = A Major
Horizontal line = broken chord (i.e linear) 
Vertical line = chord stab
Square = Held chord with broken chord underneath.
I played an almost continuous three note broken chord in the left hand throughout, adjusting slightly towards the end.

Examining the score closely, and you will notice that the third vertical line on the fourth row is actually more to the left than the other vertical lines - in that way I realised that each black line is three units long (hence the broken chords being three notes long). Each stab occurs at the third unit of a block of three , except that one on the fourth line that is on the first position. That is what gives rise to the unusual little syncopation just before the two major chords. 

This recording is of me literally sight reading the score at the piano.

More on this 225th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Sight read a late-1940s painting by Argentine artist Lidy Prati as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0225/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image originally posted (and viewable in larger scale) at

http://blakegopnik.com/post/142806762364

Reflective Reinterpretation (disquiet0225-serialcomposition)

This week's Naviar Haiku was a little different for me, as it was one of my own poems being set! I have never tried setting them to music before (I had actually forgotten I had written them until recently), so this is my attempt. I am really looking forward to hearing what everyone creates! 

My track was created using multiple ad-libs on the BassStation2, plus some piano, and a little bit of Dark Energy. 

Poem by ikjoyce: "Hush descends / Darkness envelops all: / Dreamers soar" 

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/143476960738/naviarhaiku121-hush-descends 

Dreamers Soar (Naviarhaiku121 - Hush descends)

For this week's Naviar Haiku, I improvised at the piano, imagining looking at the rippling waters below. I tried also to represent the bridge as a rising and later falling motif. This is the best performance I did, but annoyingly it was recorded too hot and distorts :-(  So - here is another recording which is cleaner but maybe not as interesting in my opinion : https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/the-river-naviarhaiku122-mid-point-of-the-bridge-take-2

Poem by r-d-w: "Mid-point of the bridge / I hover above / the river's currents"

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/143836265323/naviarhaiku122-mid-point-of-the-bridge


The River (NaviarHaiku122 - mid point of the bridge) Take 1

For this week's Naviar Haiku, I improvised at the piano, imagining looking at the rippling waters below. I tried also to represent the bridge as a rising and later falling motif. Annoyingly the best performance was recorded too hot and distorts :-(  So - this is a different take, which is cleaner but not as interesting in my opinion. 

Poem by r-d-w: "Mid-point of the bridge / I hover above / the river's currents"

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/143836265323/naviarhaiku122-mid-point-of-the-bridge


The River (NaviarHaiku122 - mid point of the bridge) Take 2

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.