All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on X, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

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haiku #609: revealing in the dark / the sadness of things / a fisherman's torch

Hi-res download available on Naviar's Bandcamp page (subscription required): https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/community

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on https://soundcloud.com/resonance-extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

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Full discography

Albums

artist: https://soundcloud.com/subespai
album: The Present Time (NR014)
Track: Braidwood to Northside 
release date: 23rd April 2021
duration: 32 minutes
edition: digital + CD

The Present Time is a collection of five mystic tunes by Subespai, a member of Naviar's community and regular performer in our digital and physical events.

In this concept album, subtle ambient layers are carefully combined with natural sounds, guiding the listeners through a journey simultaneously within and without themselves. The Present Time is a soundtrack for the restless soul: an immersive soundscape depicting the ambivalence of the times we live in.

Subespai is Mauri Edo, a Sydney-based sound artist working with found sound, repetition and volume to explore and express complex thoughts and ideas on existence, society and the individual.

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Mauri Edo
Cover and video by Naviar Records (picture by Denny Müller)
Mastered by Naviar Records

The Present Time

Subespai - The Present Time (teaser)

artist: DesuExSounds https://soundcloud.com/freej-255201882
album: Figments (NR015)
release date: 10th September 2021
duration: 39 minutes
edition: digital + CD

How we recall, 
how Emotions imprint in us, 
the sound of mother Nature, 
the big City, 
our Loneliness, 
our struggles, 
the Voice that soothe our pain, 
the Voice that fuels our Dreams, 
to conquer the Past and reach 
for the Summit, 
Our best. 
to Sail, 
with Hope, 
into the Unknown. 


Figments is an introspective journey depicted through ethereal soundscapes: personal experiences that define us yet result from intimate contemplation that little has to do with objective experience. 

In concert, mind and surroundings create a new world, where the boundaries between reality and abstraction seem feeble, non-existent. Field recordings make way for subtle ambient layers: a metaphor of the world being absorbed and reinterpreted by our consciousness. What’s left is a path made of memory, experience, feelings that become the compass that guides us through the intricacies of life. 

Like waves, perpetual melodies break through the veil of reality and force us to look within, question ourselves and what defines us. 

Figments is a celebration of the inner voice, the one that can shape reality so that we can live within its boundaries while being truly, unquestionably ourselves. 

About the artist: 

A "homegrown" of Naviar's community, Constantin Blu, aka DesuExSounds, started producing ambient and soundscapes by picking up the Naviar's Haiku challenge almost four years ago to explore and develop creativity through music as a tool for self-knowledge and interaction. Previously just a passion, Constantin has co-authored musical projects for dance and theatre in the Bucharest scene with friends who have a special home town in common: Onesti. "Figments" is the first ambient solo album that coagulates this journey, reflects the personal bond, and draws inspiration from Naviar's artistic ethos.

Figments

DesuExSounds - Figments (teaser)

artist: Rathrobin https://soundcloud.com/rathrobin
album: Ear to the Ground (NR016)
release date: 31st January 2022
duration: 36 minutes
edition: digital + limited edition CD

Naviar's first solo release of the year is the stunning concept album "Ear to the Ground" by electroacoustic duo Rathrobin.

Exploring the themes of memory and yearning, Ear to the Ground is a sonic journal of intertwined personal experiences: two nomadic authors pouring their creativity and feelings in a blank canvas that becomes a breathtaking collection of electroacoustic songs.

When Pier and Beth contacted me to release their album, I was mesmerized by the mood and poignancy of their soundscapes.
Ear to the Ground is cinematic music at its best: powerful and enveloping, inviting the listener on a journey that speaks of human nature, life, and personal evolution. Beth's voice gently guides us and hovers over Pier's captivating ambient layers, adding further depth to a multifaceted album that evolves together with the listener.

The main themes of ‘Ear to the Ground’ are time, memory and nostalgia, which are realized through textural, layered, emotive and evocative soundscapes.

During six years of collaboration, inevitably, the artists' own memories, experiences and lives were interwoven throughout the album, and their own, somewhat nomadic lifestyles reflected another significant theme of the album: the meaning of home.

Vocals, field recordings, digital and analogue instruments move through the album as a way for the artists and listeners to process experiences from the past and conjure thoughts of the future.

The album’s making was a long but consistent process and invariably included some periods of furious creativity and others of quiet contemplation.

About Rathrobin:

Beth Chesser (UK) and Pier Giorgio Storti (Italy) collaborated virtually, over a six-year period whilst simultaneously exploring the world, living in various countries. After meeting on Soundcloud they quickly began working on their first collaborative album, ‘Ear to the Ground’. Each are musicians in their own right, both have performed in live bands and a multitude of recorded musical projects. The collaboration sees Pier contribute his multi-instrumental aptitude with Beth’s vocals, and digital music compositions. All the tracks from their debut album have been recorded in various locations: Italy, UK, Singapore and Finland between 2015 and 2020.

Rathrobin - Ear To The Ground (teaser)

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by 
Clive Bennett’s poem “distant hills … / beyond the gate / winter stillness”


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/01/naviarhaiku478-distant-hills/


Tracklist:


John Wright - Between Us
Night Note - Distant Hills
Douglas James's DarkWaterBlue - Distant Hills Winter Stillness
Ingvar Tautra - Beyond The Gate
Seramind - Ferne Hügel
Leon Clowes - Beyond The Gate


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

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 #259 – distant hills – Wednesday 15th March 2023

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Ryokan Taigu’s poem “now it reveals its hidden side / and now the other – thus it falls, / an autumn leaf”.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/09/13/naviarhaiku506-now-it-reveals-its-hidden-side/

Tracklist

Adrian Lane - Now It Reveals Its Hidden Side 
noksidam - Thus It Falls, An Autumn Leaf 
Stan Magendanz - summer sky 
LazenbeeIndustries - its hidden side 
zenbytes - thus it falls 
jamesbrynildsen – Hidden 
Raymond Stull - Now and Again 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

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 #286 – Now it reveals its hidden side  – Wednesday 27th September 2023

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by
Marco Alessi’s poem “Endless echo / footsteps on an empty house / once full of life”

Tracklist:

Audio Obscura - Echo Footsteps
noksidam - Empty House Once Full Of Life
Marco Lucchi - Once full of life (with Night Note)
Nadìr - Forgotten Games
Thoribass - Endless Echo

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/25/naviarhaiku512-endless-echo/

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Peter Herrmann
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

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 #292 – Endless echo – Wednesday 8th November 2023

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by
Kohn Wright’s poem “Last bloom before autumn / Stares back at me with a smile / My younger brother”

Tracklist:

Adrian Lane - Stare Back At Me With A Smile
zenbytes - with a smile
undermulden - Last Bloom
LazenbeeIndustries – autumn
ray_cobley - A Last Bloom
Raymond Stull - The Last Bloom

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/11/15/naviarhaiku515-last-bloom-before-autumn/ 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Katerina Kerdi
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

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 #295 – Last bloom before autumn – Wednesday 29th November 2023

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Jack Kerouac’s poem “The sound of silence / is all the instruction / you’ll get”.

Tracklist:


JRBjork - Silence of Sound
Stan Magendanz - The sound of silence
LazenbeeIndustries – silence
Voidborn Horde - The Sound Of Silence
Night Note - The Sound Of Silence
Oxebe - the sound of silence
ray_cobley - The Silence of Sound


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 #328 – The sound of silence – Wednesday 17th July 2024

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Genkaibō’s poem “heaven and earth / still not rent asunder / - morning mist”.

Tracklist:

EdMundio – EARTHandMIST 
Voidborn Horde - Morning Mist 
Halcyon Hum – Asunder 
zenbytes - heaven and earth 
Oxebe - heaven and earth 
windspace - Not Yet Rent Asunder 



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 #336 - Heaven and Earth – Wednesday 11th September 2024

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Tachibana Hokushi’s poem “I write, erase, rewrite / erase again, and then / a poppy blooms”.

Tracklist:

Marco Lucchi - A poppy blooms 
Stan Magendanz - I write, erase, rewrite 
Cryxuss - Write, Erase, Rewrite 
Lazenbee Industries - write erase rewrite 
GROUNDFORMS - Erase Blooms 



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 #337 - I write, erase, rewrite – Wednesday 18th September 2024

Bluster is a collection of five songs by tetkik ve tedavi, a contributor to the Naviar haiku challenge.

The collection represents an attempt to explore various states of mind, ranging from the eerie to the joyful, elicited by and expressed via repetitive arpeggios accompanied by ambient layers and electronic rhythm.

tetkik ve tedavi is Adil Sarıbay, an Istanbul-based musician working with various techniques and devices to explore ambient and electronic musical possibilities for self-expression and communication of experiences and emotions.

Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Adil Sarıbay
soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi

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tetkik ve tedavi - Bluster (teaser)

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Ueda Akinari’s poem “washing up the mountain / a colourless rain of autumn / waters unseen.”

Tracklist:

cryxuss - a colourless rain of autumn https://soundcloud.com/cryxuss/a-colourless-rain-of-autumn
Addisonic - Misty Mountain https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/misty-mountain-naviarhaiku570
rikardfvs - washing up the mountain https://soundcloud.com/rikardfvs/washing-up-the-mountain-naviarhaiku570
Debroc - Washing the mountain https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/washing-the
windspace - Unseen Colours https://soundcloud.com/windspace/unseen-colours-naviarhaiku570
Voidborn Horde - Pieces Of A Grey Sky https://soundcloud.com/voidbornhorde/pieces-of-a-grey-sky-naviarhaiku570


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 #350 - Washing up the mountain – Wednesday 18th December 2024

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kagami Shikō’s poem “Even though afar / a feeling of coolness / comes from those mountain pines.”

Tracklist:

tetkik ve tedavi - Forest Magic https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/be7da0d1-de7b-4746-86b2-2ae893de2bd2
Addisonic - Moutain Pines https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/moutain-pines
Debroc - Feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/feeling-of
Terry Mullett - atmospheric perspective https://soundcloud.com/terry_mullett/atmospheric-perspective-naviarhaiku575
Ray Cobley - Coolness from Afar https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/coolness-from-afar
Anne Versailles - Coolness feeling https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/coolness_feeling
Robert Knote - a feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/a-feeling-of-coolness-naviarhaiku575


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 #352 - Even though afar – Wednesday 22nd January 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Marc Sheridan’s poem “a splash of colour / cherry tree petals / drifting silently falling”   

Tracklist:   

Addisonic - Splash Of Colour  https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/splash-of-colour
tetkik ve tedavi - a silent splash  https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/a-silent-splash-naviarhaiku585
zenbytes - a splash of color  https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/a-splash-of-color
Night Note - a splash of colour  https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/a-splash-of-colour-naviarhaiku-585
Daniele Marx - Cherry tree petals  https://soundcloud.com/user-537291530/silently-falling-wav
Jimmy Lem - Flapping Coagulabilities  https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/flapping-coagulabilities-naviarhaiku585
Anne Versailles - Falling petals https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/falling-petals    

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 #362 - A splash of colour – Wednesday 2nd April 2025

https://soundcloud.com/user-537291530

Daniele Marx (Switzerland)
I was born in 1977 in Lugano, a town on the shores of the lake of the same name in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. In the first eighteen years of my life, the environment around me changed substantially, with concrete replacing meadows and the city expanding. However, I spent a large part of my vacations in a châlet (a house built mainly of wood and stone) in the mountains, among the pines and mountains. I now believe that these places forged my soul. Each time, the return to the city was painful, as the concrete horizon took the place of the fir woods. Since the age of 18, I've lived in Lausanne, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, by the lake and close to the mountains. Here, too, concrete and nature firmly share the territory.

The piece is a superimposition of a layer representing nature, its harmony and the joy of birdsong, and a layer representing concrete, much less varied, and more severe, played on the guitar over a few notes that sometimes erupt abruptly. This composition is a synthesis of my environment and the small country I live in. Switzerland offers majestic and varied landscapes, between lakes and mountains. It's easy to contemplate nature's beauty. But at the same time, Switzerland is also one of the most heavily concreted countries in the world in relation to its population. Concrete and nature stand side by side, but these last decades have tended to favor the first. The contrast is striking. It's this contrast that I've tried to set to music, both by a field recording taken one hundred meters from the apartment in which I live, and through a recording with my guitar in one of its rooms, in the middle of the city.

Daniele Marx - Birds and Concrete

https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes

I'm an artist of sounds, story and socials. I explore the hidden and uncomfortable, inviting nuance in difficult conversations. My commissions have included BBC Radio 4, Contemporary Music for All, Liberty, SPILL, Supernormal and Deptford X festivals, Disability Arts Online and Queer Art Projects. 

I live in central London and my flat is surprisingly quiet. Or is it? I was curious to record the quiet corners of my living room, kitchen, drying room, bathroom and bedroom. Affixing them together, and panning these 6 to 10 minute recordings, there’s many creaks and taps, and the faint sound of a piccolo. I find the urban hum a reassuring sound - although I was raised in an English village, at age 54 I’ve now lived twice as long in cities.

leon clowes - corners

https://soundcloud.com/theadelaidean

Sean Williams is an Australian composer and #1 New York Times bestselling author. On his albums for Projekt Records he has collaborated with Steve Roach, Sam Rosenthal and Deepspace under the name “theAdelaidean”, as well as created music independently and under his real name for exhibitions, film scores, and the stage.
This work links field recordings of wind taken from a shearing shed in outback South Australia (Oratunga) with an improvisation recorded while playing live in Tokyo (Koenji) through textures that speak back to my first remembered experience of choral singing (Darwin). The thread linking these three locations follows a 7,500-kilometre line that stretches almost perfectly north across the equator, weaving and warping through memories spanning fifty years.

theadelaidean - Heirlome 2496 -

https://soundcloud.com/encym

The Ambient/Electronic transmission channel of guitarist and producer Roland Reinke, "encym" explores un-guitaristic territory by layering, collaging and shaping improvised loops. 
This piece draws inspiration from two contrasting environments. The first is the my recent concerts in Japan, which prompted me to revisit a Logic project containing ambient set rehearsals prepared for this year’s performances. Among various sonic experiments—many of them focused on noise and pedal-based textures—I rediscovered a sparse, unembellished guitar composition. It reflects my own musical roots and cultural legacy: guitar playing in its most elemental form.
To ground the piece in a specific place and time, I layered it with a slowed-down field recording captured on the Osaka subway, creating a deep, immersive atmosphere. The result is a meditation on space and memory—anchored both in the familiarity of home and the surreal experience of being elsewhere.

Encym - hdtrn [オサカ]

Sound Ripples is a sound installation by Marco Sebastiano Alessi, created for the Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio. Inspired by the cultural legacy of the Ainu people, Alessi and members of the online music community Naviar Records reflected on the roots of their own local traditions, and created sounds inspired by the landscapes and stories of their respective environments.
Combining field recordings from across Japan, ambient compositions by Naviar Records’ community, and sounds captured during Alessi’s time in Sapporo, this installation invites listeners to experience sound as a vessel of memory, transmission, and transformation.
This immersive experience aims to highlight the importance of music as a connector that brings cultures into dialogue: a medium that transcends space and time to build bridges between distant communities.

Sound Ripples sound installation

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Marc Sheridan’s poem “cloud and mist alike / rendered unnoticeable – / bright moon tonight!”   

Tracklist:    

Night Note · bright moon tonight  https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/bright-moon-tonight-naviarhaiku-593
Boundary Objects · SONG 94  https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-94-naviarhaiku593
leon clowes · bright moon  https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/bright-moon-naviarhaiku593
Tuonela · The piercing moon https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/the-piercing-moon 
Ray Cobley · Mist and Moon  https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/mist-and-moon-naviarhaiku593 

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 #369 – Cloud and mist alike – Wednesday 28th May 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “caged bird / glaring with envious eyes / at butterflies!”

Tracklist:


Boundary Objects · SONG 96 https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-96-naviarhaiku594
Stan Magendanz · caged bird https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/caged-bird-naviarhaiku594
Jimmy Lem - Operating Alongside The Existing Scratch https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/operating-alongside-the-existing-scratch-naviarhaiku594
leon clowes · caged bird https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/caged-bird-naviarhaiku594
Mr_Lamppost · Caged Bird https://soundcloud.com/mr_lamppost/caged_bird-naviarhaiku-594
Robert Knote · Cage Music https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/cage-music-naviarhaiku594

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 #370 – Caged bird – Wednesday 4th June 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Dakotsu Īda’s poem “Under the twilight sky / light shimmering on the pond - / swallows in autumn”.   

Tracklist:   

Boundary Objects · SONG 99  https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-99-naviarhaiku595
Stan Magendanz · light shimmering on the pond  https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/light-shimmering-on-the-pond-naviarhaiku595
halF unusuaL · halF swallowS  https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-swallows-naviarhaiku595
zenbytes · under the twilight sky  https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/under-the-twilight-sky
leon clowes · autumn  https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/autumn-naviarhaiku595
Ray Cobley · Shimmering Twilight  https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/shimmering-twilight
Robert Knote · light shimmering on the pond  https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/light-shimmering-on-the-pond-naviarhaiku595  

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 #371 – Under the twilight sky – Wednesday 11th June 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Konishi Raizan’s poem “spring dream… not becoming unhinged is what’s unbearable”.   

Tracklist:   

Debroc · spring dream  https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/spring-dream_naviarhaiku596
El Wud - Sound notes from an anomalous spring  https://soundcloud.com/el-wud-1/sound-notes-from-an-anomalous
Stan Magendanz · not becoming unhinged  https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/not-becoming-unhinged-naviarhaiku596
Jimmy Lem · Navigation Problem No. 1  https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/navigation-problem-no-1-naviarhaiku596 
Mr_Lamppost · Spring Dream   https://soundcloud.com/mr_lamppost/spring-dream-naviarhaiku-596 

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 #372 – Spring dream… – Wednesday 18th June 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Yosa Buson’s poem “orchids by night – / within their fragrance looms / their blossoms’ white!”.   

Tracklist:   

Zivile Opfer · Weiße Orchidee  https://soundcloud.com/zivileopfer/weise-orchidee-sound-art-naviarhaiku597
zenbytes · orchids by night  https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/orchids-by-night
mike shockley · orchids  https://soundcloud.com/user-209675219/orchids_naviarhaiku597
Daniele Marx · Orchids by night  https://soundcloud.com/user-537291530/orchids-by-night
Ray Cobley · Night Fragrance  https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/night-fragrance-naviarhaiku597
Boundary Objects · SONG 101 https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-101-naviarhaiku597   

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 #373 – Orchids by night – Wednesday 25th June 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Hosomi Ayako’s poem “after the typhoon / I walk around alone - / sunshine everywhere”.

Tracklist:

fectoper · Tori, hitori, hi https://soundcloud.com/fectoper/naviarhaiku598
Ray Cobley · Sunshine after Storm https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/sunshine-after-storm
Night Note · after the typhoon https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/after-the-typhoon-naviarhaiku-598
Voidborn Horde · Clearing Loneliness https://soundcloud.com/voidbornhorde/clearing-loneliness-naviarhaiku598
Anne Versailles · After the typhoon https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/after-the-typhoon

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 #374 – After the typhoon– Wednesday 2nd July 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Takarai Kikaku’s poem “rain rituals - / if the gods are here now / to see the paddies”.   

Tracklist:   

tetkik ve tedavi · KiKaKuKaKi  https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/kikakukaki-naviarhaiku599
mike shockley · the gift of rain  https://soundcloud.com/user-209675219/the-gift-of
Seramind · Oryzae  https://soundcloud.com/seramind/oryzae-naviarhaiku599
Tuonela · Ta-no-Kami  https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/ta-no-kami-naviarhaiku-599
Daniele Marx · Rain rituals  https://soundcloud.com/user-537291530/rain-rituals-naviarhaiku599
Robert Knote · rice and rain  https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/rice-and-rain-naviarhaiku599

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 #375 – Rain rituals – Wednesday 9th July 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Andrea Cecon’s poem “thinking of us / the sound of wind / among the pines”.   

Tracklist:   

Stan Magendanz · thinking of us  https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/thinking-of-us-naviarhaiku600
Voidborn Horde · The Sound Of Wind  https://soundcloud.com/voidbornhorde/the-sound-of-wind-naviarhaiku600
Adrian Lane · Us the Wind Among the pines  https://soundcloud.com/calicoade/us-the-wind-among-the-pines-naviarhaiku600
vheissu77 · wind & pine  https://soundcloud.com/vheissu77/wind-pine
zenbytes · wind among the pines  https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/wind-among-the-pines
El Wud · Shapeless shadows  https://soundcloud.com/el-wud-1/shapeless-shadows 

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 #376 – Thinking of us – Wednesday 16th July 2025

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Yatsuka Ishihara’s poem “pulling light / from the other world . . . / the Milky Way”.

Tracklist:

windspace · Otherworldly Light https://soundcloud.com/windspace/otherworldly-light
Benn DeMole · Pulling Light https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/pulling-light-naviarhaiku601
Night Note · pulling light from the other world https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/pulling-light-from-the-other-world-naviarhaiku-601
Ed Mundio · By the Light Of The Milky Way https://soundcloud.com/edmundio1/by-the-light-of-the-milky-way-naviarhaiku-601
Tuonela · Light from another world https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/light-from-another-world


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 #377 – Pulling light – Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Revealing the dark torch (naviarhaiku609)

4Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793657063087767552/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark
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The sadness of things [naviarhaiku609]

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Sadness in the Dark (naviarhaiku609)

Made for the haiku challenge 609 of Naviar records.

revealing in the dark the sadness of things a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

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

Thank you Marco!

A fisherman's torch (naviarhaiku609)

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

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Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 119 - NaviarHaiku609 - Revealing in the Dark

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kaga no Chiyo’s poem “young grasses - / not yet bent / in any direction”.

Tracklist:

Debroc · Anarchic https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/anarchic_naviarhaiku608
Boundary Objects · SONG 118 https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-118-naviarhaiku608-young
Gianantonio Patella - as soggy neutrons https://soundcloud.com/gianantonio-patella/as-soggy-neutrons
mike shockley · not yet bent https://soundcloud.com/user-209675219/not-yet-bent_naviar-haiku-608
Stan Magendanz · not yet bent in any direction https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/not-yet-bent-in-any-direction-naviarhaiku608
zenbytes · young grasses https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/young-grasses-naviarhaiku608

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 #378 – Young grasses – Wednesday 10th September 2025

This is a preview of the upcoming Naviar Haiku 7, a music compilation which will be released on 15th March. To download the free compilation visit https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/naviar-haiku-7

Naviar Haiku is a weekly music project in which artists are invited to make music inspired by an assigned haiku poem in seven days. This compilation includes music compositions from 25 experimental artists from around the world, working in the genres of ambient, drone, instrumental, electronic, modern classical and field recordings. All songs were composed in seven days or less.

Participation is free and every Naviar Haiku release is free to download. If you wish to participate, please visit soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Tracklist:

1. Analoc - Nico [Naviarhaiku053 - The Bones]
	
2.Naotko - Only In The River [Naviarhaiku050 - Only In The River]
	
3.Flat Stone - A Human Voice [NaviarHaiku055 - A Human Voice]
	
4.Ho66it -Lunar Dreams [Naviarhaiku052 - Pointing Their Fingers] 
		
5.Dave Dorgan - Bitter Cold [Naviarhaiku049 - Over the wintry] 

6.ASYMMETROI FAROI - Riding Back Home [Naviarhaiku053 - The Bones]
	
7. Lionel Benancie - BB88 [Naviarhaiku059 - Heaven Is In Uproar]
	
8. Jascha Hoffman - The Sun and the Moon [Naviarhaiku047-Toward those short trees]
	
9.Roofhare - Melancholy of Nostalgia [NaviarHaiku060 - Roving]
	
10. Unden - Chasing Remnants [Naviarhaiku051 - Chasing Remnants]
	
11. Mike J Dayton - Everything dies, even the stars [Naviarhaiku043 - They say when stars die]
	
12. Carlos R - Look, I'm Dancing on the Death Star [Naviarhaiku043 - They say when stars die]
	
13. Digital Compost/Owlbert - SolitaryCrowd [Naviarhaiku054 - If you climb the mountain] 
	
14.Phocasm - Dappled [Naviarhaiku047 - Toward Those Short Trees] 
	
15. Stull - Bones and Bells [Naviarhaiku048 - You are the silence]
	
16.Chad Taylor - Walking In The Forgotten Fields We Heard A Ringing (Naviarhaiku060 - Roving dreams)
	
17. Tuonela - From the mountain [Naviarhaiku054 - If you climb the mountain]
	
18. KeithysDunimselfaMischief - Nightcrawlers [Naviarhaiku057 - Still there somewhere]
	
19. Ian Haygreen - Through Hawk Wood [Naviarhaiku047 - Towards those short trees]
	
20. Kyle TM & Viva - The Great Flood [Naviarhaiku059 - Heaven is in uproar]
	
21. Rizzi - [Naviarhaiku049 - Over the wintry]
	
22. Unnecessary Enterprises - If you climb the mountain [Naviarhaiku054 - If you climb the mountain]
	
23. Oxebe - [Naviarhaiku060 - Roving dreams]
	
24. Bassling - Windy bases [Naviarhaiku049 - Over the wintry] 
	
25. Noimspartacus - Leaves [Naviarhaiku046 - Blown from the west]

Naviar Haiku 7 (album preview)

An excerpt from Naviar's upcoming compilation Haiku 11, which will be available from 22nd September at https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

Artists:

Ikjoyce https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce
Windspace https://soundcloud.com/windspace
Ablaut https://soundcloud.com/ablauto
Earthborn Visions https://soundcloud.com/earthborn_visions
Lastboss https://soundcloud.com/lastboss-1
The Temple Bells https://soundcloud.com/songaweek-nerd
Jesús Lastra https://soundcloud.com/jalastram
Yum Haruki https://soundcloud.com/yum-haruki
MusicheVirtuali https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali
Dominic Razlaff https://soundcloud.com/ratze-1

The Haiku music challenge invites artists to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. To find out more and participate, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku 

Haiku 11

Haiku 11 // Excerpt

Track preview from Sevenism's album 'Saline celestial', available now in limited edition cassette + digital at https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/saline-celestial

Saline Celestial

Sevenism / Saline Celestial (teaser)

artist: Hirotaka Shirotsubaki
album: Wet Petals
release date: 09th February 2017
duration: 36.03 min
edition: digital + limited edition cassette

Wet Petals is a collection of 5 ambient compositions by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki, a sound artist from Kobe, Japan.

Soothing melodies, field recordings and otherworldly guitar atmospheres will take you to an ethereal and eternal landscape where time stopped long ago, but nature still resonates with intensity. Wet Petals is a recreation of memories from fragments of sounds: it draws inspiration from nature and moods, bringing back impressions from days gone by.

Available from 9th February at https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

Written, recorded and produced by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki https://soundcloud.com/infection
Artwork by Marco Alessi
Design by Ewa Goral http://ewagoral.com

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Wet Petals (album preview)

artist: https://soundcloud.com/unden
album: Haiku (NR013)
release date: 27th February 2021
duration: 23 minutes
edition: digital + CD

"'Haiku' is a collection of musical interpretations of haiku poems, all recorded during 2020, as part of Naviar Haiku challenges. My aspiration when selecting tracks is to communicate a series of experiences, and hopefully take you on a short journey. Most pieces are played, mixed and recorded live with an eclectic arsenal of hardware keyboards, synthesisers, and analogue effects, with little or no further editing."

Mats Unden is a Swedish sound artist, musician, and experimental composer, based in Darwin, Australia. He creates minimal electronica, ambient, and makes noise, with a passion for analogue, modular and vintage synthesizers. Being a visual artist as well, some works end up in performances, videos and installations.

Haiku

Unden - Haiku (teaser)

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

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