When I read the haiku that guided this:

half-asleep eyes
open to a dreamlike world
of blossoms

Naviar haiku challenge 611, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I had a couple of ideas for a more literal interpretation but as I developed the track these were discarded. Everything was created using Voltage Modular, the individual elements were separated allowing for multi track recording. As an experiment I ran the Speldosa VST from Klevgrand inside VM, this is the basis of the Sparkly Bursts, doing it that way made it much simpler to control the output which was then processed externally through SpaceBlender from Soundtoys and a touch of Valhalla's Supermassive. All recorded in a one shot lave take, live mixing and manipulation of probabilities and subtle modulations. Other than mastering effects the only notable addition in post recording was adding Gong Amp (AudioThing), to the central "Melody".   

A Dreamlike World - (naviarhaiku - 611)

Making Woppets_01

Disquiet Junto # 0737 suggested an anticipatory percussion piece. "Run, Theseus, Run" features hand-programmed drums and a manipulated field recording. When I say field recording, I mean a voice memo that my spouse accidentally sent me from the phone that was tucked away in their coat pocket. Well, now it's the sound of an angry minotaur.

Listen LOUD.

More on the 737th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Opening Ceremony — The Assignment: We’re just getting started — at https://disquiet.com/0737/

Run, Theseus! Run! (disquiet0737)

“Here's the truth: people, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.”  ― Jonathan Nolan

Track list and start times:
00:00  Sion Trefor – The Cabin in the Woods | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
02:16  Insectarium – The child’s laugh
08:05  Dominique Lawalree – La Maison Des 5 Éléments
17:15  alice freshmouth – cut - out 06
25:10  KMRU – They Are Here
32:09  ray_cobley – One Leaf after Another (naviarhaiku630)
36:11  Shifting Path – Unsaid, Unchanged
40:48  Talst – Thread
48:07  Thomas Park – Radioactive_Cab_Ride_06
51:38  Yuki Aizawa – Dazzling Light
56:55  SHIFALA – we never made it
1:00:45  bruno Bernard – cuisine ouverte
1:06:15  Sion Trefor – The Doll You Don't Want | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
1:09:37  Loo(p)cy – The Distance Becoming Light
1:13:28  Emily Wittbrodt – Porous
1:15:50  Carlos Giffoni – Whirlwind (featuring Iggor Cavalera)
1:22:25  Sebby Kowal – Sonar
1:28:12  Ocean in a Bottle – Soundtrack for Global Warming on Earth Over 1,000 Years (excerpt)
1:33:00  Termotank – Piedras
1:36:33  zenbytes – one leaf falls - Naviarhaiku630
1:40:07  thomas fleischhauer – habitat (excerpt)
1:44:57  ホテル shampoo – airport Buddha
1:48:40  thomas fleischhauer – asian dream
1:53:36  Aultone – Limited exposure 02
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Eclectic current – Clouds of electricity

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by El Wud’s poem “slowly gliding — / a snail in the grass / follows the clouds.”

Tracklist:

El Wud · The cloud and the snail https://soundcloud.com/el-wud-1/the-cloud-and-the-snail
Daniele Marx · A snail in the grass follows the clouds https://soundcloud.com/user-537291530/a-snail-in-the-grass-follows
Leon Clowes · gliding https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/gliding-naviarhaiku632
Gianantonio Patella · glowingly opaque https://soundcloud.com/gianantonio-patella/glowingly-opaque
zenbytes · follow the clouds https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/follow-the-clouds
Marco Lucchi · slowly gliding https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/slowly-gliding-naviar-haiku


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #400 – Slowly gliding– Wednesday 25th February 2026

Made for the haiku challenge 634 of Naviar records.

In the temple hall,
sparrows chirping —
evening shower.

by Kagami Shikō

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

In the the temple hall, sparrows chirping (naviarhaiku634)

March forth.
Skybending blending of rumbling fires, crumbling walls,
melodic meandering and playful non-sequential sequiturs.
All aboard...

A mighty panorama of earth-shaking fury!

My submission for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #635. 

can you hear the stars? - naviarhaiku635

the quiet under skylight

Slowly shifting ronroco patterns — both melodic and percussive — create a panoramic acoustic texture inspired by phasing techniques. Small variations and gradual harmonic shifts unfold across the landscape, punctuated by deep upright bass notes and brief swells from a passionate string section.

The ronroco, an Andean string instrument related to the guitar, carries the repeating figures while the harmonies slowly drift and realign.

Quiet, spacious, and cinematic.

Inspired by this haiku:

beyond the talus
withering in the valley —
a hanging glacier

Haiku by Lisa Germany
Cover image: Perito Moreno Glacier
Composed and performed by DD
Six ronroco parts
Upright bass (pizz.)
String section

Glacier Phases (Naviarhaiku636)

Made for the haiku challenge 636 of Naviar records

beyond the talus
withering in the valley
- a hanging glacier

by Lisa Germany

This haiku by Lisa Germany is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between Naviar Records and Red Earth Ecology that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration.

Lisa is a multidisciplinary artist whose work begins with walking, preferably in wild places. Rooted in awe and attentive to the natural world, she writes haiku and haibun in the traditional Japanese tradition, seeking moments of beauty in everyday experience.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

A hanging glacier (naviarhaiku636)

I'm primarily a visual artist both 2D and 3D, for the last decade I've operated almost exclusively in the digital 3D realm.   since the late 80s I've made periodic forays into the sonic world, MIDI sequencing, minimalism, musique concrète, found sounds  and improvisation. I am seldom happy with anything and seldom consider a piece finished.

A Dreamlike World - (naviarhaiku - 611)

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