Built out of a short extract from an improvisation between @stellato-strings (violin) and myself (piano) there's some Audacity pitch change going on and I'm keeping this week's @naviar-records Haiku Challenge as sparse as possible, with organ stop shifting and very low growling Garageband string ensemble. The picture is from a sunset this week in Margate.

without a voice
the heron would disappear –
morning snow

Widely regarded as one of the most important female haiku poets, Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. She started writing haiku early in her childhood and was strongly influenced by Basho’s poetry (probably because her teachers were his students).

The fundamentals in Basho’s poetry include: sabi (detached loneliness), wabi (poverty of spirit), hosomi (slenderness, sparseness), shiori (tenderness), sokkyo (spontaneity), makoto (sincerity), fuga (elegance), karumi (simplicity), kyakkan byosha (objectivity), and shiZen to hitotsu ni naru (oneness with nature). Fukuda Chiyo-ni was particularly interested in the latter, since most of her poetry deals with the realm of nature.

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

Deadline: 26th October 2022

haiku by Fukuda Chiyo-ni http://haikukan.city.hakusan.ishikawa.jp/english/about/index.html

morning snow (naviarhaiku459)

... building up fragments for Cafe Oto set on 7th December ... take a few seconds of @stellato-strings violin and let Paul and Pan stretch their stuff ... chosen by the magic of angel numbers and intuited numerology ... memory of the never ending awe I feel for Eliane Radigue's work (saw 'Sisters with Transistors' again this week) ... picture of Margate at night (not raining, but it does rain there, did this week) ... here's this week's response to the @naviar-records Haiku challenge ...

the sound of rain
on a cold spring morn
the town is quiet

Craig Lincoln is a poet who enjoys the challenge of writing in many forms of poetry. He is the author of two poetry collections: A Mind’s Eye View Come Talk With Me, and Dance Macabre.

His poems have been featured in writing magazines such as The Curious Record, Scope Magazine, Readers Carnival, and on various poetry sites he is a member of. He has also been featured in poetry anthology collections such as Change of Scenery, They Shall Not Grow Old, Northern Lights and Brio.

He has had his haiku (his particular passion) published in 3 editions of the Yamadera Basho Memorial Haiku collections.

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

Deadline: 9th November 2022

haiku by Craig Lincoln https://twitter.com/Clpoetry

Cold Rain Town (naviarhaiku461)

This piece was created from materials created by a recorded improvisation of @stellato-strings playing violin and me on the piano. It's this week's response to the @naviar-records weekly Haiku challenge:

Icarus
the pelican hovers
mid flight

We discovered Kimberly’s writings on Twitter. If you find the haiku we chose inspiring, make sure you explore her Twitter profile for more evocative poems.

“I am blessed to live by the sea. This informs a lot of my ‘ku. I also try to write honestly about my struggles with depression. Not sure how successful I am on that topic. It’s hard. The nature poems come easier. I began writing haiku about four years ago. I try to write daily, giving myself Sundays & holidays off. ‘Ku is a kind of discipline for me—much like a daily walk or yoga practice. Haiku quite simply saved my life.”

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

Deadline: 16th November 2022

haiku by Kimberly A. Horning https://twitter.com/everydaydeath12

the photograph was taken by me in Holborn this morning.

Icarus (Naviar 462)

This week's response to the @naviar-records haiku challenge is a cut from the improvisation session I did with @stellato-strings a few weeks back. It really is the gift that keeps on giving. This a live excerpt, no editing or adding. 

the fall
of memory
leaves
Jim Young [haigo – Oyoguhito] is an old poet writing from his beach hut on the Gower peninsula, Wales, UK.

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

Deadline: 23rd November 2022

haiku by Jim Young https://haikueye.blogspot.com

I took the picture on a walk southside of the river opposite the Houses of Parliament a few days ago at sunset.

The Fall (naviarhaiku463)

I'm oh too familiar with nightmares, often wish for sweeter dreams. Glad to know more of the C69 chord then. I had great fun doing this with the Garageband Clavs, strings and Steinway. Apart from a couple of accidental notes I just just the notes of the chord, evoking the nightmare through pitch bend, flangers and phasers.

More on this 568th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Slumber Mill (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a key chord from sleep research) — at: https://disquiet.com/0568/

Thanks to Glitcher for proposing this project.

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-0568-slumber-mill/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “piano chord, sleep, vaporwave, green, pink” was the prompt.

nightmare into slumber (disquiet0568)

This is my response to this week's Disquiet Junto prompt.

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) — at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

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-0572-rhythm-kit/

Rhythm Kit (disquiet0572)

This is this week's response to the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge.

filling my shadows
glorious rays bringing growth
heavenly ascent

Jennifer Doty was born and raised in the beautiful wilds of the Ozarks in southern Missouri. She was taught to value literature, music, the arts and spirituality. Her upbringing encouraged creativity, open mindedness and self-expression.

Always attracted to the outdoors, she draws much inspiration for her poetry from nature, as well as human nature. Her interest in poetry and writing as a form of self-expression began in her early teens, only recently is she beginning to publicly share her work.

Jennifer obtained a B.S. in Child, Adult and Family Services and an M.S. in Health Sciences. She has always had a passion for helping others. She raised 2 children and currently spends time helping with her four grandchildren. She enjoys family, writing, travel, photography, painting and working on improving her guitar skills.

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

 

Deadline: 22nd March 2023

haiku by Jennifer Doty https://twitter.com/jenncord

picture by Elton Sa https://unsplash.com/@bigeruta

heavenly ascent (naviarhaiku480)

Coming up, I've got my first piano commission to write (thanks @drakemusicscotland). Had been thinking I have to explore range and dynamics of the piano but increasingly, with the @naviar-records prompts I've been aiming for simplicity and space inbetween.

Here's this week's prompt that closes today:

Lost in tranquil seas
Where spring feels melancholy
Another sunset

Gary Clarke joined a social media platform to raise awareness about an infrastructure issue in his local area by creating a website at Whaligoe Eye in August, 2021. During this time, he stumbled across a poetry and writing community which provided support and encouragement for his creativity.
 
Living right on the coastline in the Highlands of Scotland provides Gary with plenty of inspiration for his poetic endeavours, and through moments of sunrise and sunset gracing the North Sea it proves to be a motivational muse.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 3rd May 2023

haiku by Gary Clarke https://whaligoeeye.co.uk/

lost in tranquil seas (naviarhaiku486)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records Haiku prompt.

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”
 
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 10th May 2023

haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

picture by Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY

spring rain (naviarhaiku487)

In responding to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge, I was exploring the live loops capabilties of Logic Pro. hHere I am taking nine tiny sample slices of improvising with @stellato-strings and slooooowing it right down to five.

Here's information about this week's prompt:

in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.

From the Haiku Guy website:

“Perhaps Issa’s dream is symbolic. Like a turtle, he is hunkered inside his shell (hut), waiting out the harsh winter weather. Or, William Nicholas offers a different interpretation, noting that the turtle is linked with good luck and longevity in Japan. In 1812 Issa was still a bachelor; he married two years later. At this point in his life he longed for the good luck of marriage and family life, hence the dream turtle’s teasing laughter?”

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

Deadline: 17th May 2023

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Todd Trapani https://unsplash.com/photos/ymEcUhbjCrI

in dream world (naviarhaiku488)

This is this week's response to the @naviar-records haiku challenge.

Desolate street at dawn
Last night’s turmoil
Whispers in the wind

Second haiku written by me that makes it to the Haiku challenge. I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

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

Deadline: 21st June 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi https://www.naviarrecords.com

Picture by K8 https://unsplash.com/photos/vEESxiQXASk

Desolate (naviarhaiku493)

Uncannily I had been working on this piece this morning using the harmonics from piano chords I'd played and recorded a while back. I'm exploring and teaching myself how to compose usimg the editing and effects of the Logic Pro X multiverses. I'd been drawn to soft quiet sounds and was using delays and echoes to create subtle patterns that play off one another.

I was halfway through this and then @disquiet Marc sent this email prompt out saying this ...

"Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result."

... which was exaclty what I was doing anyway. I must be psychic.

More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Music Itself Listens To (disquiet0611)

I took some of @kate-gallaher's recorder loops from yesterday to make this response to the @naviar-records weekly haiku. 

Here's the details about this week's challenge:

'Disappearing
snow on mountain peak
unfurls a rainbow'

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”

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

Deadline: 11th October 2023

A cut up of the Haiku poem by John Hinks is used for the title https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

excerpt of picture used here is from Joe Hu https://unsplash.com/photos/ZXaCeb7rwfE

Disappearing On Mountain (naviarhaiku509)

This piece is built on Ableton Live out of the recordings I recrently made of @kate-gallaher and @stellato-strings playing flute, recorder and violin, sometimes using melodies from John Walsh's The Bird Fancyer's Delight, then also with me on the piano.

The image is from me asking Adobe AI for a picture of 'baroque dreamcatchers on a Sunday afternoon in South London'.

The piece is a response to this week's @naviar-records challenge based on a haiku poem by Jerome Berglund and here's the information about that:

'ore train
bright colors
passing quickly'
Submission deadline: 14th February 2024

 

 
TO PARTICIPATE
 
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku527)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title.

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.
 
For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.

Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems and Funny Pages were just released by Setu and Meat For Tea press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.

passing (naviarhaiku527)

In the second part of the three week @disquiet Junto Project, I took @triermusic's Ableton Live track of street musicians and added three Logic Pro X bass. I panned Nate's track halfway left and my basses to the middle of the right and kept the tempo of 81bpm.

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

Right 2of3 Disquiet0637- with Nate Trier

Using slowed down fragments of recordings of pedalled piano notes, @stellato-strings touching her violin with the bow, a creaking piano stool and ticking clock, I created this piece using loops and effects on Ableton Live.

It's my contribution to this week's @naviar-records haiku prompt.

The title 'along' is taken from this haiku poem by Takashi Matsumoto:

'Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.'

Takashi Matsumoto was a Japanese poet originally from Tokyo. Born into a family deeply interested in nō theater, he also devoted himself to it in his youth until 1921, when he came into contact with Hototogisu magazine and haiku poetry. Beginning the following year, Matsumoto became a student of Takahama Kyoshi. In 1946, he launched the magazine Fue 笛 ('The Flute').

The image is from a fraction of a picture by Rodion Kutsaiev.

For more information about @naviar-records and the weekly haiku challenges please visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

along (naviarhaiku533)

This Ableton Live-devised piece takes its title 'Tall,' from the first word of a haiku poem by John Hinks, a regular contributor of music and poetry to this Naviar community, who has recently passed away. Thank you for your gifts of art, @flownblue.

'Tall, wide-arching trees
Assume a cathedral shape
Until darkness falls'
 
I found out today that John passed away. John participated in the Naviar Haiku challenge for over 4 years, almost every week, and shared both his music and poetry with us. He'll be deeply missed.

"John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, was a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John was also involved in multiple projects: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland), ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott), Szukanie (with Michał Wojciechowski), and Meadowlight (with Emma Reed)."

Haiku by John Hinks

The image used here is a fragment of a picture by Mike Petrucci


Submission deadline: 17th April 2024

 
TO PARTICIPATE
 
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku536)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title.

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.
 
For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Tall, (naviarhaiku536)

A few months back using a Zoom mic I recorded @kate-gallaher playing recorders in the nearby woods to her home. Many birds were around us singing. This piece, 'spoke no' takes a short rhythmic fragment that she improvised which I compressed slowed down on Logic. I used echo and reverb to build rhythm and dictate paste, and then created new pitches through Ableton, combining this with the layers already created on Logic. This is the first time I've use Logic and Ableton to work on one piece.

This piece is a response to this week's @naviar-records weekly haiku challenge. Here's the information about that:

they spoke no words
the visitor, the host
and the white chrysanthemum

For this week's challenge, I picked another poem by Ōshima.

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 Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov

Submission deadline: 28th August 2024

spoke no (naviarhaiku555)

In 1987 I first got my hands on a polyphonic (Elka) synth and with a Roland Boss drum machine and a Tascam Porta One, wrote and recorded my first synth pop song, 'A Love Divine'.

After re-recording this in 2022, musician @ashgre asked to remix it. Much more than that, they reworked it! I'm absolutely delighted with this 80s 12 inch-stylee revisit, thank you Ash :))

Ash also made the image art based on this photo: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-arm-with-tattoo-holding-apple-20088223/

A Love Divine - the AshG Rework

Observing this week's Disquiet Junto project's instructions, I took fragments of recordings of @kate-gallaher playing recorders, @stellato-strings playing violin and myself on the piano to create reverse reverbs as the short soundscape, then placed the original extracts throughout. I used two of the in-built reverbs in Logic Pro X (Quantec Room Simulator and SilverVerb) to record the reverse reverbs along with the Binaural Post-Processing.

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Space Shot (disquiet0683)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

one by (naviarhaiku578)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge, which you can find more information on here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/.

The haiku this week is by Yosa Buson:

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!

The image used is a portion of a picture by Wyxina Tresse.

fresh (naviarhaiku579)

In response to this week's @disquiet projetc, using six Alchemy presets on Logic Pro X I tried to capture that brief moment after dreaming upon awakening. More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

early bird (disquiet0684)

using 20 resonance tones I recorded on a toy piano and acoustic guitar, I've responded to this week's @naviar-haiku music challenge, of which you can find details about here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Haiku by Fuhaku

Extract of picture by Ming Han Low

bell's voice (naviarhaiku580)

As @disquiet's project landed in my inbox I'd been working on ideas for a sound design I'm developing for a live artist's performance next month. That I was using percussion (Ultrabeat on Logic Pro X) fitted with the pick up sticks game, and I'd been playing with panning via automation, which also felt a good fit with the deft art of manoeuvring the sticks in the game.

More on the 685th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Pick-Me-Up — The Assignment: Treat a set of sounds like a game of pick up sticks — at https://disquiet.com/0685/

Pick-Me-Up (disquiet0685)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

"plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds"

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Extract of picture by Atsushi Tsubokura

Submission deadline: 26th February 2025

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

billowing (naviarhaiku581)

Thinking about this week's @disquiet project, I drew on my daily meditation this morning. I took samples of wheels from Splice to represent the shape, length and cycle of breath.

More on the 686th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Catch Your Breath — The Assignment: Listen to yourself inhale and exhale; make music from what you sense — at https://disquiet.com/0686/

oldface (disquiet0686)

Thinking about the differences between the “behavioral” and the “physiological” music making activites as instructed in this week's @disquiet project (see more on the 687th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Applied Science — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that includes physiological and behavioral techniques — at https://disquiet.com/0687/) I made an instinctual first take riff on the 70s modular synth in Alchemy on Logic Pro, in response to the synth's rhythm, then layered this pattern in tracks knowing it would phase and create new rhythms inbetween.

The appliance of science (disquiet0687)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku music challenge.

"here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets"

Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, "the Nun Shokyu" traveled to the Deep North of Japan.
 

Haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni

Extract of a picture by A C

here (naviarhaiku582)

In response to this week's @disquiet project, I picked this road sign I saw in central London. I'm working on a sound track for a live artist's performance work, and while I've still got much to do, this morning I completed the final piece of the work, which is what you hear here.

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

The End (disquiet0688)

I'm working on sound design for a performance and installation by zack mennell at Dadafest in Liverpool next week. This is one of my favourites, and it fits well with this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

"out of the blue
of early morning light:
a paulownia leaf"

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

Extract of picture by Thomas Kinto

Submission deadline: 12th March 2025

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

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