rock bottom—
river stones form
gentle waves

haiku by Luke Levi https://www.lukelevi.com/

picture by Nadine Marfurt https://unsplash.com/@nadine3

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

arch folk

halF rocK [naviarhaiku475]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
479 week haiku
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/08/naviarhaiku479-summer-night/

2023-03-09

Summer Night ( Naviarhaiku 479 )

This is the first part of a 3-part collaboration for the Disquiet Junto. All the sounds used in this basic rhythm track (85bpm) are from a recent session where the numerous noises a bass guitar makes were recorded using a contact mic on the body of the bass rather than through the normal pickups.

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

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-0591-the-loneliest-number/

85bpM

halF numbereD [disquiet0591] 85bpM

naviarhaiku487:
Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.
haiku: Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/
image: Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Ocean Everywhere [NaviarHaiku487]

Disquiet Junto Project 0593: The Charm
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Please note: While this is the third part of a three-part project sequence, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which have occurred over the course of three consecutive weeks.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the third in a sequence that encourages and rewards asynchronous collaboration. This week you will be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0592 7). Note that you are finishing a trio: you’re creating the third part of what two previous musicians began. Please keep this in mind.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record an original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to a pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. The majority are in this playlist:

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It was an interesting balancing act, to add something fresh while still leave enough space for the original material to breathe.

This is my 2nd iteration.
Initially, I wanted to just record a drum part but wasn’t satisfied with the end result.
I wanted something more subtle.

So for the 2nd iteration, I came up with a process that allowed me to explore a few of my current interests at the same time. Probably that’s why I was willing to give this piece so much attention. Hm…

Below is a somewhat detailed description of the process and context.
It’s long & detailed, because I wanted to capture a few thoughts while they’re still fresh.

Context:

earlier this week, I studied interviews with Nils Frahm about his current improvised live concerts (How I Play Live: Nils Frahm | DJMag.com). My take-away for me was that playing all parts by hand (e.g. not relying on quantized sequencers) is a part of his organic sound that I like so much.
That motivated me to play keyboard a lot more - mostly piano & electric piano sounds with a touch of tape delay effect - and discover that this is currently my favorite thing to do, musically.

yesterday, I repaired the broken switch of the audio input preamp on my Buchla Easel, and my mind was naturally wondering about how to employ it in the next projects…

earlier today, I read an interview with Biosphere (In the studio with Biosphere | Headphone Commute) - another artist whose sound I like a lot.
I liked the idea of processing samples of acoustic instruments (he mentions sampling classical music) through synths/filters/etc.

yesterday, I found the perfect reverb effect pairing for the Easel - a modulated space reverb pedal.

All of the above coming together to form the idea for a process.

(continued on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/62312/57)

Frugal3ty feat Marc Eisenschink and encym [disquiet0593]

Seramind - Chinkapin Shii (naviarhaiku489) [Ambient, Chillout, New Age]

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/17/naviarhaiku489-dividing-the-autumn-sky/

naviarhaiku489 – Dividing the autumn sky

Dividing the autumn sky
Into two
A huge chinquapin tree

Takahama Kyoshi was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was the editor of the haiku magazine Hototogisu (previously edited by Shiki), where he promoted a more traditional style of haiku, as opposed to other popular schools which did not follow the pattern of seventeen syllables at that time.

Kyoshi also highlighted the symbolic function of the kigo (the seasonal reference), even though the more modern trends were already tending towards seasonless haiku.

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

Deadline: 24th May 2023

Haiku by Kyoshi Takahama https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/literatures-and-poems/haiku/takahama-kyoshis-haiku-poems

Picture by Will https://unsplash.com/photos/x1JObX8KM8w

Visit my other pages:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/22xH66OU00shKM5kcwbAeK
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/seramind
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/4709745-Seramind
Bandcamp: https://seramind.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seramind
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@seramind

Chinkapin Shii (naviarhaiku489)

One hand becomes two. Original recording:
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/one-hand-piano-n1-you-to-play-with-if-you-like-it?in=marcolucchi/sets/one-hand-piano-1

Marco Lucchi - One hand Piano in duo w  Michael's left hand

Field recording of an electrical transformer at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) slowly transformed with GRM BandPass and GRM Reson.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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-0595-filter-progression/

Transforming A Transformer For Éliane [Disquiet0595]

Composed with radio signals derived from Shortwave, SDR dongle, Low Frequency applications of Airspy, CB triggered synthesizer, cassettes tapes, digital feedback and intuition.

Radio Polytopes Series 2 Section 1

Mitelium [part 2]

Retro sparkle meets modern punch: a synthwave-tinted anthem with widescreen chords and hooky lead lines. It’s all signal, no noise—broadcast at full strength.

Broadcast

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.