HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 567

Above my head -
The burning summer sky,
Begging and walking.
 

Haiku featured in the collection "Fire on the Mountain: the Selected Haiku of a Wandering Zen Monk Taneda Santôka". Japanese, and English translated by Hisashi Miura and James Green.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda

Picture by Wayne Low

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

Season Of Light

Season Of Light (naviarhaiku567)

Days In Seoul | 서울에서의 일들 - Pt. 2

Sven's compositions often transport listeners to inspiring, ethereal realms. Cellos and pianos paint soft, contemplative landscapes, tinged with underlying angst and longing, showcasing Sven's talent for translating life stories into relatable and evocative music.

With 'The Undefined Feeling of Discomfort', Sven presents an album this time brimming with anxiety, fear, and anticipation. Struggle permeates the music, enhanced by distorted vocals, acoustic guitars and drone pads. Sven once again evokes deep emotions, guiding the listener through a powerful sonic journey.

The album opens with a floating, introspective tone. The atmosphere is dark, and an anxious feeling gradually emerges. As the first city lights appear from afar, a tumultuous force sweeps everything away, like an undertow shattering waves on a coastline. Moving on, choir-like vocals bring in a biblical aspect, adding darker, soul-wrenching depth. It feels like a scream from the abyss, leaving an empty shell resonating with its vastness. Soft guitar notes offer hope, but the passage ends with intense anxiety, and feelings of rapid flashes before one's eyes throwing us off balance.

Further along, a rise from uncertainty hints at a resolution. It starts with a sense of battle and resistance illustrated with hopeful strings and a heartbeat-like backbeat. A force emerges from the dark sonic cloud pierced by a tenacious sun. The second half brings resolution and lightness, offering hope and comforting certainty amidst the alarming tension of this transitional phase. The album leaves us feeling chaos after the storm, atoms crushing into one another. With a calmer end, as if the initial rumble had passed, a scar remains. The memory lingers, but things move forward. 

The Undefined Feeling of Discomfort

wlr180 Sven Laux - The Undefined Feeling of Discomfort

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extract from the track 'the space between'
from the album 'where light touches'

this music is built upon the vibrational structures of the elements. at the most subtle level of being, in the equanimity of compassion.
nature or the self or the infinite emptiness of sky are all one.

all is mind, all is vibration
all that is can be seen as intervals, relations, architectures in interaction.
in the subtlety of the creases inside the surface are the intimate characteristics of all forms.

I’ll be seeing you in the interweave where all is reflected.

released April 27, 2025

hervé perez – field recordings, sound sculpture, singing bowls, shakuhachi, saxophones, clarinet, keys, electronics

produced, mixed and mastered at nexTTime studios
+ artwork by hervé perez 

where light touches

the space between

the space between [where light touches nt38]

nap in the laundry room

茂不

Arcadian

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Marc Sheridan’s poem “a splash of colour / cherry tree petals / drifting silently falling”   

Tracklist:   

Addisonic - Splash Of Colour  https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/splash-of-colour
tetkik ve tedavi - a silent splash  https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/a-silent-splash-naviarhaiku585
zenbytes - a splash of color  https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/a-splash-of-color
Night Note - a splash of colour  https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/a-splash-of-colour-naviarhaiku-585
Daniele Marx - Cherry tree petals  https://soundcloud.com/user-537291530/silently-falling-wav
Jimmy Lem - Flapping Coagulabilities  https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/flapping-coagulabilities-naviarhaiku585
Anne Versailles - Falling petals https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/falling-petals    

Credits:   

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela  
voice intro: Ian Joyce  
cover image: Micah Hallahan   

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 #362 - A splash of colour – Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Some of my experimental stuff. 
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The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.

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