Verrrrrry much looking forward to a couple of October days in Suffolk playing and musicking with two favourite musicians @kate-gallaher and @stellato-strings. I'm mucking around today tapping into the iceberg that is Logic Pro learning how to edit and cut and do effects effectively. Blimey there's so much room in this universe. This is me taking some long notes of @kate-gallaher playing Handel and going wobbly. I'm pleased with this experiment on a train back from Stoke today :))

This is my response to this week's @naviarrecords Haiku prompt. Here's more info about that:

Lazing in shadows,
Conceding the drawing room
to moonrays

Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

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

Deadline: 6th September 2023

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Picture by Sebastian Mark https://unsplash.com/photos/L7T7afz-eTc

drawing (naviarhaiku504)

Composition inspired by haiku by Elliot Carson.

in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall

Elliot Carson is a teacher living in Japan who doubles as an artist/designer/translator in his free time. He writes haiku under the pen name EKC and is currently working to self-publish his first book of haiku.

Rainfall

Rainfall - (naviarhaiku510)

Hey peeps,

The title explains everything.
When you start to believe that everything is 1, you will experience not too much problems. In fact, you're completely at easy and you can cope with everything.

Try to follow Gloomy's language of existence.

Thanks to Soho-D for his tips & tricks, lol :-)

If you wanna watch the video on YouTube, cleck here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGbtiOuZkuM

Enjoy,

Gloomy

Gloomy - It Only Gets Better

Les Violons De L'automne, a title inspired by Paul Verlaine's "Chanson d'automne".

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naviarhaiku515 – Last bloom before autumn

Last bloom before autumn
Stares back at me with a smile
My younger brother

John Wright is a drummer, producer, and regular participant in our music challenge. A few weeks ago, John participated in our latest haiku workshop on Discord, and here’s one of the poems he wrote recently.

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

Deadline: 22nd November 2023

Haiku by: John Wright  https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj

Picture by: Katerina Kerdi https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photograph-of-forest–YiJvbfNDqk

Les Violons De L'automne - Naviarhaiku515

MMXXIIIVIXXVTGHTNNG

Tom (@tom-2020) and I are glad to present track 7 (last but one) in our almost finished collaborative album "La belle et le loup, ou Les loups du Gévaudan" (2023), or in English translation "Beauty and the Beast, or The Wolves of Gevaudan").

The track was created in collaboration on 25 November 2023 (initial composition, recording, arrangement and mix in MAGIX by Tom) and 10-11 December 2023 (subsequent composition, recording, arrangement and final mix in GarageBand iOS and Logic Pro by Alex M), and posted here on SoundCloud on 11 December 2023 (by Alex M). We acknowledge use of vocal samples from MAGIX Dance-Main Stage, selected and incorporated into the track by Tom. 

The artwork cover for the track is based on a photo by Tom of 11 September 2013 (exactly 10 years and 3 months ago!) that was cropped and annotated in Mac OS Preview by Alex M and Tom in coordination on 8 October 2023.

Duration: 6:59 minutes

La belle et le loup, ou Les loups du Gévaudan 7 - Tom & Alex M

RE:cycle

2024-05-19

Reflections On A Calm Surface

Dreaming in Texas

MST. From the album Flight of the Airborne Phantom.

Bandcamp: https://linakamura.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5JJaCP2DNoIXagSqLAWfhF
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwtEnI7bNM
Find More Here: linktr.ee/linakamura

Composed and Produced by linakamura
Artwork/photography by linakamura
Released August 17th, 2025

Flight of the Airborne Phantom

so cold. 0407205. it feels like just disaster soon i hate it. 
it makes feel sick. i dont know what my holds in scared.
i dont want
to feel dead 
 bodies
everywhere
ㅤㅤits gross

ㅤ
ㅤ
ㅤ
ㅤㅤㅤyrics
i really don't like this
ㅤㅤreally really really really really really reaㅤlly

i don't like it
ㅤㅤa cut,
ㅤㅤㅤㅤa commint.

really really really really really really really ㅤreally really really really

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤi don't l i ㅤke
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤi really don'tㅤㅤli ke t
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤdo tㅤ liㅤghhss

ㅤlittle fire

James is a multi-instrumentalist creator of music as well as a contemporary artist. He plays stringed instruments (guitars, cello, ukulele, bass, etc.) and uses a midi controller for any instruments he doesn't have access to; such as a timpani or a glockenspiel.

James creates music that is inspired by the pure love and joy of making music. The style of music he creates varies from piece to piece. He will go from songs that are accompanied by guitar or ukulele to full arrangements of a traditional North American band to orchestral scores that you could easily hear backing a film or video. 

By browsing his music you're likely to come across traditional pieces of music sounding as old as time and other pieces sounding as new as yesterday's jingle. 

Instruments inspire him to make new sounds come together to form music and combining old and new sounds is something he very much enjoys exploring.

While music and sounds are a big part of James' personality so is making art, graphics, and videos. James has worked professionally as a technical illustrator/graphics specialist since 1991. So James almost always creates art specifically for each piece of music he puts out into the world. The art may or may not be directly related to the piece of music in context but it will definitely give you another perspective on how the music has inspired him or makes him feel.

To learn more about James and/or see his art seek him out on Instagram.com and YouTube.com; he’s easy to find if you spell his name correctly.  A pseudonym also being used by James is Mildred Stain.

If you are interested in collaborating in any way, contact him!

Rainfall - (naviarhaiku510)

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