

Haiku poetry and music.

Naviar Haiku is a music project in which artists are invited to make new music inspired by a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

Haiku is a traditional and short form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines: it’s about moments of objective experience which lead to deeper considerations about life and nature. The juxtaposition of two images or ideas and the consequent creation of a gap in the imagery gives the reader (or, in this case, the musician) the chance to complete the poem with his/her own interpretation.

This project is about expanding the meaning of a poem beyond its words, and the active role of the reader in haiku poetry, unique in the literary realm, is what inspired this project.

To find out more and participate, visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/


Naviar Haiku Challenge 1 - 50

Naviar Haiku 026

Welcome to the twenty-sixth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 9nd July and post a track inspired by the haiku poem on our Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory: https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by 40ozphilosopher (http://40ozphilosopher.tumblr.com)

Picture by Mike Beauregard (https://www.flickr.com/people/31856336@N03)

Thunderclap [naviarhaiku026 - Shadows and Gravestones]

Very appropriate, it's 4 degrees here at the moment.

Ice Age [Naviarhaiku 026 - Shadows and gravestones]

Made for the Naviar laboratory Group.

<i>Shadows and gravestones 
Reaching out across the tundra
Unspoken words</i>

Haiku poem by 40ozphilosopher (http://40ozphilosopher.tumblr.com)

Picture by Mike Beauregard (https://www.flickr.com/people/31856336@N03)

More info at: soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

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Very cool remix! =>  https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/drone-is-in-the-heart

Thanks Ethan :)

Ice Age [Naviarhaiku 026 - Shadows and gravestones]

Welcome to the twenty-sixth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 9nd July and post a track inspired by the haiku poem on our Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory: https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by 40ozphilosopher (http://40ozphilosopher.tumblr.com)

Picture by Mike Beauregard (https://www.flickr.com/people/31856336@N03)

Frostbitten Vowels [Naviarhaiku026 - shadows and gravestones]

Welcome the forty-ninth assignment of Naviar Haiku.

Participants are to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and post it on Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory (https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory)

Deadline: 17th December 2014

Haiku poem by Sōseki Natsume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_Sōseki

Picture by Old Mister Crow

https://www.flickr.com/photos/43181051@N00/

White Tree, Black Heart [naviarhaiku049-Over the wintry]

submitted to the Haiku poem by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
"Only in the river
 Darkness flows:
 Fireflies

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?
This is the fiftieth experiment of Naviar Haiku.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Only In The River [Naviarhaiku050 - Only In The River]

Only In The River...Naviarhaiku 050

Fireflies -Naviarhaiku 050

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/12/naviarhaiku-050-only-in-river.html for track discussion.

Frostbitten Vowels [Naviarhaiku026 - shadows and gravestones]

Kyle TM