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]

Sound Fantasy on:

The rain is over:
South Mountain puffs out
Spring clouds.

(Tr. Sōiku Shigematsu)

Naviar Records Haiku Challenge

The rain is over

The rain is over_Naviarhaiku485

Morning Meditations April 28

Morning Meditation April 28

Naviar mountain naviarhaiku487

Sound Fantasy on:

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Naviar Records Haiku Challenge

Mountain Rain

Mountain Rain_Naviarhaiku487

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]

Created on iPad with AUM and several AUv3 synths and effects:
SoundScaper, Hilda, Euclidean, FLUSS, Wires, otherdesertcities, RoughRider, BLEASS Granulizer, Eos 2
 
Mastered with Cubase 12 and Ozone 10.

Photo by zenbytes (2014, Vosges Mountains, France)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 487:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/03/naviarhaiku487-sound-of-mountain/

Poem/sample by PlatypusVA:
https://freesound.org/people/PlatypusVA/sounds/440579/

rain - Naviarhaiku 487

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)

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.

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

Deadline: 31st May 2023

Haiku by Pritee Rel https://twitter.com/PriteeRel

Picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/photos/pfBwKO8rzjY

Wood Anemones (NaviarHaiku490)

Rafael Anton Irisarri presents his new album, Points of Inaccessibility, out on February 6th.

Pre-order: https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/points-of-inaccessibility
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@irisarri

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Premiere: Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison

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.