This is based on a chord progression/melody I came up a few months ago. Added a few arpeggios and field recordings, and pushed everything through some nice moog-style ladder filters and saturation plugins.*

The footsteps you hear are taken from a field recording of me walking through Finnish snow :)

*Arturia Filter MINI and Klanghelm SDDR

...like glaciers

Graqtho

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by
Shubham Dasgupta’s poem “in dark autumn nights / dew and the new bamboo shoots / reaching out to moon”

Tracklist:

jamesbrynildsen - Bamboo Moon
Stan Magendanz - reaching out to moon
zenbytes - night dew and bamboo shoots
noble-earths – Bamboo
33per - (new bamboo shoots) Rarotonga
Raymond Stull - Touch the Moonlight

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/18/naviarhaiku511-in-dark-autumn-nights/

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 #291 – in dark autumn nights – Wednesday 1st November 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

2023-11-28

NLS - 2023 - 11 - 28 Perseids

Music Festival "Prospettive" - Ludus Tonalis Music Academy
Violin - Filippo Fattorini
Cello - Anna Armatys
Piano Sara Dominici

Cinque Enigmi, for Violin, Cello and Piano - LIVE 2023

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Spirits Of Menghuanhu

2023-12-12

lost Submarine

09.08 - 23.08.2025
A Milli Space, 101 Reykjavìk

archivum, chronaura, cachéamor

Atmoswanderer Idref

Guitar is from the early 2000's.
Crickets appear courtesy of themselves.
Headphones very much recommended.

Meanwhile......

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

Naviar Broadcast #292 – Endless echo – Wednesday 8th November 2023

Naviar Records