

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

Soundscapes - Stonerich Compilation

Selection

Naviar Haiku 040

The thing about France Jobin's music that never fails to impress is that it works on so many levels. Listen to it at the threshold of perception (the way it is mastered) or at very high volume, on headphones or through loudspeakers, and you will hear new sonic relationships, new structures, a new logic every time. Things simultaneously are and aren't as they seem; sounds you hear are and aren't really there.

Montréal sound/installation artist France Jobin has come a long way since her days as a blues keyboardist in the 1980s. In 1999, after a hiatus that lasted a decade, during which she raised two sons, she turned to experimental electronic music of the very quiet, rumbling, abstracted kind, and started performing and releasing music under the moniker i8u. Slowly but with great assurance, she built a much-lauded career and kept on refining her art, ever digging deeper into the core of sound. When the revered LINE label offered her an album (Valence) in 2012, she abandoned her alias and started using her own name.

In her own words:

«The Illusion of Infinitesimal represents another chance to refine the unique essence of each sound and composition, in an effort to better communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.

A parallel could be drawn from particles of matter, which, "as far as we know, are infinitesimal points of zero size, yet they have measurable amounts of angular momentum. Does the concept of rotation even make sense for a featureless speck? Angular momentum seems to be a more foundational concept than rotation itself. The angular momentum, or spin, of a single particle is restricted in strange ways. It can have only certain values, and not all values are allowed for all particles." (1)

Perfection and uncertainty.»

(1) Collage of quotes from Jim Pivarski, "Spin", Symmetry Magazine, March 2013.

France Jobin - 0

A Rework of the track "Si" by Nils Frahm for Nils' Screws Reworked project 2014.

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Si (Sleep Orchestra Rework)

A song inspired by the following haiku by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet Junto)

"There's a lifetime in
between the first and second
click of the door's lock"

Recorded with Ableton Live and written in 90 minutes.

This track is a part of both Disquiet Junto and Naviar Lab.
More info:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquiet0145-theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
http://geirt.com/

Lee Rosevere - There's A Lifetime [Naviarhaiku040/disquiet0145 - Theresalifetimein]

This project kinda mutated from my original intention. I recorded the sound of me unlocking various doors at home and then loaded these into a ESX-1 sampler. I originally intended to produce something sparse and minimal but the urge to tweak got the better of me me and I ended up with something busier and more rhythmic. It's pretty much a one take jam with a little bit of post editing.


A song inspired by the following haiku by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet Junto)

"There's a lifetime in
between the first and second
click of the door's lock"

Recorded with Ableton Live and written in 90 minutes.

This track is a part of both Disquiet Junto and Naviar Lab.
More info:
soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:
disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquie…theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
geirt.com/

AmbientNaviarhaiku040-There's a Lifetimeambientinstrumentalpianohaikudisquiet0145-theresalifetimein


Locket (Disquiet0145-There's a life time in)(Naviarhaiku040-There's a lifetime)

**Production Notes**

I used the same sample L-A-J did (sagetyrtle - door.wav, www.freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/32938) and treated it with Ambience V0.3. These resulting granular sounds were routed in Abletons Resonators so I finally had some pads from a door. 

Next were some melodic bits and pieces. I heavily used the Rhythmic Robot Sample  Library for these. Added some long and overboardings delays and EQs. That‘s all, folks! 

* * *

**Disquiet Junto Project 0145: Locked Haiku**
 
The Assignment: Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse.

This week’s project means participating in another music community’s project. There’s a wonderful group called Naviar Haiku, at naviarlab.tumblr.com, that does weekly projects of music inspired by haiku poems. For the group’s current project, its 40th, I wrote the haiku. It reads:

There’s a lifetime in
 between the first and second 
clicks of the door’s lock

The instructions are simple:
Step 1: Please produce a short piece of music “inpsired by” the above poem.

Step 2: Post the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and to the Naviar Haiku group, which is at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory
Include the first line of the haiku as the title of the track.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow participants.

Bonus Step: Include the sound of a door lock in your piece.

Length: Your finished work should be between one and four minutes long.

(...)

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/  Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:  http://geirt.com/  

Doors Wide Shut [disquiet0145-theresalifetimein]

The fortieth assignment of Naviar Haiku is a poem by writer/editor Marc Weidenbaum. Marc is also the creator of Disquiet Junto, a music project which I guess most of you already know.

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: 15th October 2014

Haiku by Marc Weidenbaum  http://disquiet.com

Picture by Geir Tønnessen http://geirt.com

Life clicks [naviarhaiku040 - There's a lifetime in]

Notes:
All tracks have "Events" that suggest space in between.

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquiet0145-theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:

http://geirt.com/

In Between (disquiet0145-theresalifetimein;Naviarhaiku040-There's a lifetime in)

“Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″
'There’s a lifetime
in between the first
and second clicks of the door’s lock' By Marc Weidenbaum

My interpretation is the 三途川思想 The Sanzu river mythology  using clicks and my field recorded stock. that like represented as Souls "Crossings the river out from hereness" in Buddhism

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/
Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
http://geirt.com/

There's a Lifetime In (and Out) [disquiet0145-Theresalifetimein] [Naviarhaiku040-There's A Lifetime]

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]

Lunar Testing Lab-The Winter Void

------------from 1999 , released on mille pleataux

Robert Babicz - Babybel

Blue.Hour explores the high contrast colors created in the landscape during “l’heure bleue,” the period of twilight each evening when there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. Directly following the ‘Golden Hour,’ know for its diffused yet powerful light, the Blue Hour retains the diffusion but lacks the strong light source giving this period of the day an especially melancholic and meditative atmosphere.

Blue.Hour is presented here in stereo with some compositional elements added to make it more suitable for home listening.

Yann Novak - Blue.Hour (Excerpt)

氷の花

This is the title track of my new album <i>Coma Melt</i>, released on Petroglyph by the two gentlemen from Norway,  Øystein Jørgensen and Rune Martinsen. All new, unreleased material. 

If you like drone, dark ambient or experimental music, electronica or just fine sounds, you should check out their netlabel, http://petroglyphmusic.com/

Free download

Coma melt

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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
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