Naviarhaiku 073 | Soundbook 011

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Naviarhaiku - Searching For Balance

This is the 73rd experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants have seven days to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and upload it to Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory

Deadline: 03rd June 2015

Poem by charlesfolsom

Picture by frank

Funambulism [naviarhaiku073 - Searching for balance]

Soundbook 011 | Deadline 03.06.15

Once upon a time there existed somewhere in the world, nobody knows where, a school which was called the Black School. There the pupils learned witchcraft and all sorts of ancient arts. Wherever this school was, it was somewhere below ground, and was held in a strong room which, as it had no window, was eternally dark and changeless. There was no teacher either, but everything was learnt from books with fiery letters, which could be read quite easily in the dark. Never were the pupils allowed to go out into the open air or see the daylight during the whole time they stayed there, which was from five to seven years. By then they had gained a thorough and perfect knowledge of the sciences to be learnt. A shaggy gray hand came through the wall every day with the pupils’ meals, and when they had finished eating and drinking took back the horns and platters. But one of the rules of the school was, that the owner should keep for himself that one of the students who should leave the school the last every year. And, considering that it was pretty well known among the pupils that the devil himself was the master, you may fancy what a scramble there was at each year’s end, everybody doing his best to avoid being last to leave the school.

It happened once that three Icelanders went to this school, by the name of Sæmundur the Learned, Kálfur Arnason, and Hálfdán Eldjárnsson; and as they all arrived at the same time, they were all supposed to leave at the same time. Sæmundur declared himself willing to be the last of them, at which the others were much lightened in mind. So he threw over himself a large mantle, leaving the sleeves loose and the fastenings free.

A staircase led from the school to the upper world, and when Sæmundur was about to mount this the devil grasped at him and said, “You are mine!”

But Sæmundur slipped out of this mantle and made off with all speed, leaving the devil the empty cloak. However, just as he left the school the heavy iron door was slammed suddenly to, and wounded Sæmundur on the heels. Then he said, “That was pretty close upon my heels,” which words have since passed into a proverb. The Sæmundur contrived to escape from the Black School, with his companions, scot-free.

Some people relate, that, when Sæmundur came into the doorway, the sun shone upon him and threw his shadow onto the opposite wall. And as the devil stretched out his hand to grapple with him, Sæmundur said, “I am not the last. Do you not see who follows me?”

So the devil seized the shadow, mistaking it for a man, and Sæmundur escaped with a blow on his heels from the iron door.

But from that hour he was always shadowless, for whatever the devil took, he never gave back again.



Picture by Bob Vonderau

Sæmundur's Heel [Soundbook011 - The Black School]

This is the 73rd experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants have seven days to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and upload it to Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory

Deadline: 03rd June 2015

Poem by charlesfolsom

Picture by frank

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Rising Noise [Naviarhaiku073 - searching for balance]

A track from the compilation album, Liquidation Totale, which can be streamed in full via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2rBSsYBjNZLwVXNL0xgWaK?si=-1DGs7cxQxaMs4uwq5OjFg

Liquidation Totale

On A Balcony, The Love of a Good Life (2017, from Awry EP and Liquidation Totale compilation))

Today, the Japanese musician Taro Ishida posted a video clip to his Instagram of a rainshower in Nasu Forest (Nasu-machi Nasu-gun, Tochigi.) He also shared a 30-minute audio recording of the rainshower via his dropbox account. I downloaded the audio and decided to improvise a little piece of ambient music around the rainshower recording using my electric 12-string guitar and two patches on a Microkorg synthesiser.

As I listened to Taro's recording, I made a sketch of the rainshower.

I was feeling quite miserable this wintery morning, so I went for a long walk into and around the city of Adelaide. On the way there, it started raining heavily and I sprinted to the nearest shelter at the Himiji Japanese Gardens in the southern parklands. The shelter adjacent to the beautiful stone garden provided a bit of respite whilst the rain cleared. As the rain subsided and the sunlight peeked through, it was a beautiful moment there by the stone garden and my mood improved significantly from that point on! The sound of the dripping rain was particularly lovely and hearing Taro's recording later in the day reminded me of this moment. Hence, the title of this piece.

I want to thank Taro for uploading and sharing the recording of the rainshower in Nasu. 

Taro Ishida: field recording
TLR: electric 12-string guitar, synthesiser

It rains today (in Nasu & Adelaide)[feat. Taro Ishida]

"Apophenia" is a track from Mote Music, a new album by South Australian sound artist and composer, Tristan Louth-Robins. Releases December 4th 2020.

Mote Music is now available for pre-order via the artist's Bandcamp page: https://tristanlouthrobins.bandcamp.com/album/mote-music-2

Apophenia

Jim Fry and Luke Haines 
Test Driving the New Prius - Full Radio Play
featuring an introduction by Scott King

Test Driving the New Prius - Full Radio Play

Bobby Rangell: alto sax
Nico Arnicho: percussion
Daniel Diaz: acoustic bass guitar & live synth sparkles

Live in the studio recording, circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 27th 2020.

Again, from the  masters I got back some weeks ago and I am rediscovering and reworking some music for there.

This is part of a one day session with these extraordinary musicians  this is the only session with the three of us together in the studio. We recorded tones of music that day, including [junto0463](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/two-memories-gradient-disquiet0463) and [naviarhaiku358](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/black-horse-naviarhaiku358) with a 4th element , Pajaro Canzani on guitar)

This is the introduction to an instrumental composition we recorded for a producer (documentary) who accepted the mix but later asked for the introduction to be removed.
So this free form 2 minutes remained unused.
I remixed this today for 27/NOV/2020 thanksgiving  junto challenge
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0465-you-thank 
as a thank you note for those excellent musicians.

I spent some time live and i the studio with Bobby since that day, but completely lost track of Nico, 10.000 Km between us...

Going back to these masters is a joy and reminds me how great it is to play together with fellow musicians and how grateful I am that I could do it with such great, talented guys.


Photo by DD: self portrait with blue forms

Happy thanksgiving everybody, love
DD 27/NOV/2020

Deep Blue 01 (Giving Thanks) - disquiet0465

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the development of digital technology. Without it none of what we do here would be possible.
Piece for digital 'orchestra' created in Pure Data & incorporating the framework for a march that I submitted for disquiet0464..

More on this 465th weekly Disquiet Junto project, You Thank (The Assignment: Make a piece of music for someone or something toward which you feel thankful), at:

https://disquiet.com/0465/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0465-you-thank/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Ellen K, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (flipped and cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/9ztLGg

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

The March of IT (disquiet0465)

Disquiet Junto Project 0465: You Thank
The Assignment: Make a piece of music for someone or something toward which you feel thankful.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0465-you-thank/38745/12

Step 1: Think of someone (friend, family member, source of inspiration, etc.) you’re thankful for, or perhaps a thing (instrument, institution, a local business, etc.).

Step 2: Write a short piece of music dedicated to the subject you focused on in Step 1.

Track notes: 

I've been catching up, listening to(and buying) a bit of more Jim O'Rourke's formiddable Steamroom editions over on his Bandcamp. For the most part, these are longform works (~30mins to 1 1/2 hours) composed primarily on a Serge modular synth. There are also archival editions going back as far as 1992. Getting into these can be daunting (there are currently 51 releases!) but the recent output is incredible: especially the drone-y, ambient vibes of 40, 45 and 50. 

So, this drone of mine - on my studio modular set up - goes out to Jimbo. Thanks for the ongoing inspiration, you wonderful human.

It's an excerpt from a patch that I'd left running for about half an hour. The core of the patch's activity is a newly acquired Doepfer Wave Multiplier, which works beautifully when the CV controls are being affected *very* discreetly. The signal is also passed through a Doepfer Wasp Filter. Around this, there's a dual delay emulating a pair of long tape loops. The artefact sounds (warbles, clicks, static) are stems from my new album, Mote Music. I'm looking to 'deconstruct' the album for live performance next year, so I thought I'd incorporate them into the mix of this patch. I like how - at times - they almost sound like field recordings.

[disquiet0465] Steam Wisp (for Jim)

Cecilia Tyrrell
Signal
07:27

Blurring the boundaries between land and sea, Signal creates a seascape in constant flux with its identity, ever changing, always in motion.  Sonic topography inspired and partly arranged from recordings made at a sound mirror on the South East coast of England (UK). The mirror itself stands dormant as it waits, facing out away from land. Sound markers and siren warnings, still it listens, quietly detecting.

https://theradius.us/episode93

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Episode 93: Cecilia Tyrrell

More on this 466th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [ ] Sound Machine (The Assignment: What sort of sound does your city make?), at:

https://disquiet.com/0466/

Project inspired by a December 2, 2020, tweet from George Wallace:

https://twitter.com/MrGeorgeWallace/status/1334274395938832387

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0466-sound-machine/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Seattle Sound Machine [disquiet0466]

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [Missing in Caption] (The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions), at:

https://disquiet.com/0469/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0469-missing-in-caption/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Rune Vallesether, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/9U2HvQ

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Music For Captions [disquiet0469]

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Rising Noise [Naviarhaiku073 - searching for balance]

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