Composition inspired by haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Endless echo
Footsteps on an empty house
Once full of life

Once Full Of Life

Once Full Of Life - (naviarhaiku512)

This week's podcast features music made by Naviar's community inspired by
Jerome Berglund’s poem “ore train / bright colors / passing quickly”

Tracklist:

Leon Clowes – passing
zenbytes - passing colors
Night Note - Ore Train Bring Colors
Debroc - Bright ore
Stan Magendanz - ore train
Halcyon Hum - Passing

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku527-ore-train/ 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Chuttersnap
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #307 – ore train – Wednesday 21st February 2024

This track is available on Bandcamp as pay-what-you-want: https://future-boy.bandcamp.com/track/entreaty-to-a-tree

There is a Giant Sequoia in Seattle's Volunteer Park named Franklin who I have spent many hours talking with and leaning on for support. This is a song that imagines asking Franklin for wisdom and receiving their response. The tune and structure is inspired by / adapted from the African-American spiritual Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord), which is a song about witnessing suffering. Since I have spent so much time witnessing Franklin and having my suffering witnessed by them, it felt appropriate to use Were You There as a model.

Entreaty To A Tree

So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

A live improvisation using a Dingwall NG3 6 string bass into a pair of Chase Bliss pedals; a Mood and a Blooper, and an Empress Zoia pedal using a patch I designed myself.

2812

A play with the modular, started out as a big evolving patch that then crystalized into this more repetitive jam thing. 

12Jan2025Jam

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0722: Spook Street. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0722-spook-street/73313/5.

Escapism 10

You Might Say I Haven't A Care in the World

Spar Run

the harp player
moves under cover
market day

kjmunro cultivates poetry on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. She founded & facilitates ‘solstice haiku', a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, & manages a weekly blog feature for The Haiku Foundation called Haiku Dialogue. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, & her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).

haiku by kjmunro

Picture by Indira Tjokorda

Submission deadline: 12th November 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

The Harpist (NaviarHaiku618)

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0727: Polar Strategies. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/73513/5.

Polar Strategies

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.

The Harpist (NaviarHaiku618)

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