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)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 26 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo.

This original version of "Cool Your Scorching Throw Pillow, Part 73" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 582, Here And There

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

by: Arii Shokyu-Ni

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.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Feb 2023 - a view of a painting of mine from the same month named “No Plans”, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Cool Your Scorching Throw Pillow, Part 73  (naviarhaiku582)

27Feb25

My naviarhaiku582 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/
:D

upon scorched fields [naviarhaiku582]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 582:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA, 2024)

upon scorched fields - Naviarhaiku582

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)

This track is about renewal.  When thing are uncertain and the world is upside down we must have faith that we can begin again that we will endure I hope this track will give you strength and hope and help all of us dream of a making this life a more peaceful and better place for all.

Produced by Andrew Cloninger
Engineered and Mixed by Andrew Cloninger @ The Factory
Andrew Cloninger - Synth, Bass, Electronics, Drum programming
Song Composed by Andrew Cloninger

Wild Violets

An interpretation of:

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

Naviar haiku challenge 582, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Assembled using a combination of Voltage Modular and Bento, the noise synth from Giorgio Sancristoforo; https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net (Bento is about 2/3 of the way down the list).

I started out with Bento, got it set up worked out which controls I wanted to manipulate the moved onto Voltage Modular and patched together the other elements I'd need. Although a bit of a fiddle, I'd assigned all my physical controls to Bento so had to control all the VM components with the mouse, everything was manipulated and recorder in a single live take.

Scorched Fields - (Naviarhaiku - 582)

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

SONG 76 - Naviarhaiku582

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0688: Sign Up. The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction.

At the end of a short cul-de-sac in a residential neighborhood in the town where I live, is a yellow triangular road sign with the words “END” (see image). Something about the finality of the words and the placement of it in front of the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, makes me a little sad and a touch melancholic every time I see it. Especially when the air is misty or foggy, which happens often along the coast. It’s as if the sign is trying to prevent one from further experiencing more joy, hope or happiness. The solid red secondary sign adds to that feeling. I tried to convey that thought with this piece.

This was created using Ableton Live using Native Instruments Playbox, Slate+Ash Spectres, and a field recording from a local beach. Also used built-in reverbs and Spectral Resonator effects within the DAW.

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/

Last Wave [disquiet0688]

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