This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

250511 [disquiet0697]

Disquiet Junto Project 0699: Third Third
The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio.

I went through some of the tracks no one had done yet from last week and chose Lee Evans and Ray Cobley's track from last week for my second submission.  I once had John Cage's Music of Changes and Terry Riley's In C open in different browser tabs and played them at the same time to see what it would sound like.  It was interesting.  All the randomness of Changes was suddenly put into a harmonic context.  I heard Evans and Cobley's track and thought I might do something similar.  I kept it super basic and played some chords in C# Major.  Created some swelling with reverse and delay.

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caged bird
glaring with envious eyes
at butterflies!
(Kobayashi Issa)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird/
Komposition1070 KammerEnsemble

Cage Music ]naviarhaiku594[

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

disquiet0705 - Lubadh

Bonfire Reverie

WHALE  REQUIEM

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 602

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

This week's challenge features a poem by the greatest master of haiku, Matsuo Bashō.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō

Picture by Michel Stockman
 

Submission deadline: 23rd July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Sweet Elderpath (naviarhaiku602)

Inspired by the usual electronic 90'd suspects with Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRMj5aQeHCo

A life of credit

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves



Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita

Picture by Kyle Bushnell

avaunt weightless - naviarhaiku604

The haiku that inspired this:

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

Naviar haiku challenge 610, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge 

Was a clear indication that every sound would be in some way derived from or be a simulation of glass. While the final piece is the result of a one off live mix performance there was a lot of assembling of elements and preparation including routing audio to numerous effects.

Not possessing any glasses that properly ring I experimented with other glass objects and found I got acceptable results from several lamp shades, these were recorded and split into single hie samples. I used a simple patch in VCV Rack to play these in a semi random sequence; the result of which is passed through Moon Echo, Audio Thing. It is also routed to GRFX from Imaginando and separately to a combination of SpaceBlender, Soundtoys and ShimmerVerb, Eventide. Together these are used to build the opening of the track.

The central drone section had to be prepared in advance because of audio driver limitations.  I recorded the output of two random but overlapping sequences again generated using VCV Rack, then used that audio to excite and resonate a simulated glass disc with holes in it using Substrata from Giorgio Sancristoforo.

The closing section features two again semi random sequences generated with Voltage Modular and passed as MIDI information to two separate instances of Clear Glass from QuietMusic. The faster sequence also has a small amount of Stardust 201 Tape Echo, Cherry Audio, added towards the end.

Dropped Glass - (naviarhaiku - 610)

half-asleep eyes
open to a dreamlike world
of blossoms

Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Picture by Pascal Bullan

beryl mossed wools - naviarhaiku611

M. Ackerman's second page, mostly for Disquiet Junto pieces projects.

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