

Haiku poetry and music.

Naviar Haiku is a music project in which artists are invited to make new music inspired by a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

Haiku is a traditional and short form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines: it’s about moments of objective experience which lead to deeper considerations about life and nature. The juxtaposition of two images or ideas and the consequent creation of a gap in the imagery gives the reader (or, in this case, the musician) the chance to complete the poem with his/her own interpretation.

This project is about expanding the meaning of a poem beyond its words, and the active role of the reader in haiku poetry, unique in the literary realm, is what inspired this project.

To find out more and participate, visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/


Naviar Haiku Challenge 1 - 50

Naviar Haiku 017

This is the seventeenth experiment of Naviar Haiku. Participants are to complete the task by Wednesday 7th May and post a track inspired by the poem on our Soundcloud group  https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Haiku poem by Laura Seigle

Destroyed [naviarhaiku017 - If Build and Destroy]

Music inspired by haiku poems

If build and destroy 
Are music notes, our island
Is a sympony

                     by Laura Seigle

photo: modified https://flic.kr/p/5nDaNd and mine

Sleeping NYC  [Naviarhaiku017-If build and destroy]

Welcome the forty-ninth assignment of Naviar Haiku.

Participants are to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and post it on Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory (https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory)

Deadline: 17th December 2014

Haiku poem by Sōseki Natsume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_Sōseki

Picture by Old Mister Crow

https://www.flickr.com/photos/43181051@N00/

White Tree, Black Heart [naviarhaiku049-Over the wintry]

submitted to the Haiku poem by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
"Only in the river
 Darkness flows:
 Fireflies

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?
This is the fiftieth experiment of Naviar Haiku.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Only In The River [Naviarhaiku050 - Only In The River]

Only In The River...Naviarhaiku 050

Fireflies -Naviarhaiku 050

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/12/naviarhaiku-050-only-in-river.html for track discussion.

Darkness Flows [Naviarhaiku050 - only in the river]

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I'm a graphic designer resides in tokyo. learned graphic design/media art at Tama art university.
I play keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, A.sax. currently just a MBP and ableton
no absolute ears but relative pitch.
sub account in case https://soundcloud.com/naotko2