This week's haiku is by Elancharan Gunasekaran:
     lightning thunder
     and rain
     all speaking at once
It inspired this improvisation (in D Dorian) played on three instances of Hybrid VST synth. 
Recorded and mixed in Reaper. No added effects. Mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Weatherspeak (naviarhaiku436)

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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Hunted by the Unseen

naviarhaiku439:
Tall trees gently wave
Sending secret messages
Into the Spring breeze

haiku: John Hinks @flownblue
image: Amanda Mocci unsplash.com/@amandamocci
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Spring Breeze [NaviarHaiku439]

gently (naviarhaiku 439)

I went back to my old DAW (EnergyXT2) for this ambient piece, because I wanted to use a particular 32-bit VSTi. This mix (with different mastering) features on Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 18, which contains almost 6 hours of excellent ambient music, and is available from BandCamp at a price of your choosing, which represents excellent value in these days of hyper-inflation.

Sophism

Paramnesia

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Music in response to the (naviarhaiku442) challenge 
"Eruption of light
deconstructing the darkness
beauty for ashes"

gently (naviarhaiku 439)

Blue Monk