release date : 25/10/2023 
 naviarhaiku512 – Endless echo

Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, 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: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Endless Echo Loop   (naviarhaiku512)

The breeding of good thoughts

naviarhaiku512:
Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

haiku: Marco Sebastiano Alessi
image: Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

An Empty House [NaviarHaiku512]

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All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

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The album uses harmonic waves, resonant drones, and frequency-layered sound design to create an atmosphere that symbolically mirrors the idea of clearing out what does not belong — physically, mentally, or energetically.

Warm drones, pulsing sublayers, and vibrating overtones blend into a meditative soundscape that feels both primal and futuristic. Inspired by Rife-style frequency concepts, each track explores different tonal fields associated with purification, balance, and rhythmic release.

This is not medical audio — it is an experiential sound ritual, crafted to give listeners the sensation of cleansing, clearing, and energetic realignment.

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Let the pulse refresh your inner space.

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mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.

An Empty House [NaviarHaiku512]

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