steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino! 

Ōshima Ryōta was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. Some sources say he was a disciple of Yosa Buson, while others say his master was Hattori Ransetsu. He's mostly remembered for his essay “Bashō ku kai” 芭蕉句解 ('Study of Bashō's haiku') published in 1759, a magnum opus of his studies and literary theories on Matsuo Bashō's work.

Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta

picture by Soubhagya Ranjan

Submission deadline: 7th May 2025

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Steady Spring Rains (naviarhaiku591)

The piece has commissioned as a result of Ö1 Talentebörse Kompositionspreis 2024 provided by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)

Helena Sorokina, Alt;
Samuel Toro Perez, E-Gitarre;
Raffael Dolezal, Violoncello;
Georg Hasibeder, Schlagwerk;
Severin Neubauer, Saxofon

Conductor: Clemens Flieder 
Recording: Fridolin Stolz

Definition of Oneself

From my album "Brittle Fractures" which is available to buy and download on Bandcamp. Only available on Soundcloud for a limited time... 🙏

afloat

An electronic composition with dense and muted sounds created using Pure Data with additional reverb, delay, etc.

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/.





Fog Muffles (disquiet0716)

While the far-flung Asarian homeworld is the first inhabited system that we've discovered, this is not our first time encountering the intelligent cloud beings of Asar. We've learned that Asarian explorers visited our earth thousands of years ago, touching down somewhere in the Nile river valley. When the gas giants finally departed, the Pharaoh whose hospitality they had enjoyed bestowed two gifts on her alien visitors. The first was a scroll with plans they could use to build their own pyramids back home. But the most remarkable gift was a papyrus describing a peculiar set of frequencies that, when resonated in certain sequences, could reveal spiritual and mathematical truths. We believe the audio captured by our surface drone may be a sacred performance of this ancient harmonic "spell".

This one was a lot of fun to put together! It gave me a great excuse to experiment with microtonal composition, and learn how to configure custom tunings in Logic. I chose the Maqam scale, a traditional scale in Arabic music believed to have originated in ancient Egypt. The scale consists of two "half-flats": in this case, A, B half-flat, C, D, E half-flat, F, G, and A. The main melodic line is typical for the scale, arcing from root to  octave and then descending again. The percussion was inspired by reading about Wahda w-Nuss rhythms. 

More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/.

The Asar Sequence (disquiet0718)

CHERRY BOMB! THE VIDEO: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqD0n1CVkY

DCR - CHERRY BOMB - DCOMPOSED

Little song for Kaya Shirao haiku: 
"The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly."



The coming of the red dragonfly (naviarhaiku614)

11Oct25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/796847388320055296/naviarhaiku614-the-coming-of-autumn
😀

a red dragonfly [naviarhaiku614]

Feat: Emilia -Vocals/Blair Purdy-Guitars
https://soundcloud.com/blair-purdy-music-bpm
Track is available at: https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/

Talk To Me

Little improvised song for Tanaka Hiroaki haiku:"
Whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts"

We meet (naviarhaiku616)

First there was a common funky beat for 2 minutes or so. Then there was a bass played during those 2 minutes in a complete improv mood. Then a nylon guitar came breaking time. Then a steel guitar came bending time. Then some djembes, shakers and seeds came defying the beat and eliminating it.

In the spirit of mixing traditional instruments with free jazz approach, a simple though "we are lost in time" emerges.



Lost in time

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.