Name: [naviarhaiku601] pulling light by museum of historical materials in haiku #601: pulling light / from the other world . . . / the Milky Way
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Description: PULLING LIGHT :::: eight channels of guitar and multiple channels of noise and SFX over a drum beat switching between 6/4 and 8/4

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haiku #601: pulling light / from the other world . . . / the Milky Way

For the 601th haiku proposed by Naviar records: 

pulling light from the other world . . . the Milky Way
 
by: Yatsuka Ishihara

Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

Pulling light (naviarhaiku601)

Welcome to a little deep (haiku) space TidalCycles livecoding play! 😁😜

pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

Haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara: https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/JonesOnIshihara.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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halF milkY [naviarhaiku601]

Hybrid orchestral soundscape, a simple E major chord progression played on both electronic and acoustic instruments:  4 synthesisers alternating with 4 bowed basses, 2 cellos and a violin.

For this haiku:


pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

by: Yatsuka Ishihara

Created by DD in Paris  July 9, 2025
Photo by Alex.

naviarhaiku601  by @naviar-records

Pulling Light (naviarhaiku601 )

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
601
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

2025-07-10

pulling light  from the other world . . . (Naviarhaiku 601 )

Made specifically for Naviar Records' 501st Haiku Challenge

Light from another world (naviarhaiku601)

PULLING LIGHT :::: eight channels of guitar and multiple channels of noise and SFX over a drum beat switching between 6/4 and 8/4 

[naviarhaiku601] pulling light

The haiku prompt for this one:

whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts

Naviar haiku challenge 616, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Made using  custom recordings, VCV Rack and Dust from Soundmorph.


Green Walnuts - (Naviarhaiku - 616)

Little song forSaitō Sanki haiku:

"An autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea."

I translate the title to my language, catalan. "Drawn back by the sea" is "Arrossegat per la mar" on my island. In Catalonia, they say: "Arrossegat pel mar". The Balearic form is more poetic for me.

Arrossegat per la mar (naviarhaiku617)

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Fusae Fubasami’s poem “reminding me not to forget / a toad goes out / to the verdant world”.

Tracklist:

Anne Versailles · reminding me https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/reminding-me
Ray Cobley · Verdant https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/verdant-naviarhaiku615
Snowman Lost His Head · To the verdant toad https://soundcloud.com/snowmanlosthishead/to-the-verdant-toad
Ed Mundio · MEMORY OF A VERDANT WORLD https://soundcloud.com/edmundio1/memory-of-a-verdant-world-naviar-haiku-615
windspace · Elixir of Memory Toad https://soundcloud.com/windspace/elixir-of-memory-toad
Stan Magendanz · the verdant world https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/the-verdant-world-naviarhaiku615
Guided Levitation - connections https://soundcloud.com/guidedlevitation/naviarhaiku615


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 #385 –  Reminding me not to forget – Wednesday 29th October 2025

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
617
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku617-an-autumn-nightfall/

2025-10-31

an autumn nightfall (Naviarhaiku 617)

A reworking for this track in my archive originally created in autumn 2024, after a few versions in the last year i  find it fits well with the context of Haiku Music Challenge Naviarhaiku 617



an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki



Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki

Picture by John Jason

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an autumn nightfall (Naviarhaiku#617)

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cycles (naviarhaiku617)

My submission for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #617,
More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Autumn Nightfall by the Sea - naviarhaiku617

The haiku prompt for this:

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

Naviar haiku challenge 617, details here:  https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I have my field recording of the sea so I had a starting point; everything else was made with VCV Rack. I started with the sequences then added the synthetic waves, mixed with the real ones towards the end of the track. Wanting to keep the rest quite sparce and minimal I then made a simple chord sequence and a simple self generating melody.   

With a rough plan for the overall form I was going to follow I set up physical controls and multi track recording, hit record and mixed/modulated all the elements in one live take.

While the sea recording is my own it has been uploaded to freesound, find it here: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Drawn Back By The Sea - (naviarhaiku - 617)

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Tanaka Hiroaki’s poem “whenever we meet / it’s raining / green walnuts”.

Tracklist:

Marco Lucchi · It's raining https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/its-raining-naviar-haiku-616
Ray Cobley · Green Walnut Time https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/green-walnut-time
Jimmy Lem · An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/an-all-encompassing-cold-perfume-naviarhaiku616
Stan Magendanz · green walnuts https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/green-walnuts-naviarhaiku616
cryxuss · green walnuts https://soundcloud.com/cryxuss/green-walnuts-naviarhaiku616
Snowman Lost His Head · We meet https://soundcloud.com/snowmanlosthishead/we-meet-naviarhaiku616

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 #386 – Whenever we meet – Wednesday 5th November 2025

https://museumofhistoricalmaterials.bandcamp.com

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

[naviarhaiku601] pulling light

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