after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Hosomi Ayako (1907–1997) was a prominent haiku poet from Aogaki, Hyogo. After a series of personal tragedies, including the deaths of her husband and mother, she found solace in haiku during an illness. She later married Sawaki Kinichi, leader of the modern haiku group Kaze, and was deeply involved in the haiku community until her passing at 90.

Haiku by Hosomi Ayako: https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/hosomi-ayako.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF alonE [naviarhaiku598]

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 103 - NaviarHaiku598

naviarhaiku598 – after the typhoon

June 18, 2025

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Hosomi Ayako (1907–1997) was a prominent haiku poet from Aogaki, Hyogo. After a series of personal tragedies, including the deaths of her husband and mother, she found solace in haiku during an illness. She later married Sawaki Kinichi, leader of the modern haiku group Kaze, and was deeply involved in the haiku community until her passing at 90.

Haiku by Hosomi Ayako

Picture by Tam DV

Join The Naviar Haiku Music Challenge
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.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.

Submission deadline: 25th June 2025


Clearing Loneliness (naviarhaiku598)

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Hosomi Ayako (1907–1997) was a prominent haiku poet from Aogaki, Hyogo. After a series of personal tragedies, including the deaths of her husband and mother, she found solace in haiku during an illness. She later married Sawaki Kinichi, leader of the modern haiku group Kaze, and was deeply involved in the haiku community until her passing at 90.

Haiku by Hosomi Ayako

Picture by Tam DV

Submission deadline: 25th June 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

After The Typhoon (NaviarHaiku598)

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

i wanted to concentrate more on my own next track this week so i avoided #naviarhaiku and #diquiet this time. then i began sketching out random experimental minimal sounds and beats combined. and got curious again as usual so i looked up this weeks haiku promt for naviar haiku music challenge. and zap what came from my monitors matched on instant so i uploaded it and now share with you. not my usual kind of work and somehow quite sketchy in it. dont be wonder for the sound was mixed on my fostex monitors this time and not on headphones like my last few tracks. was quite difficult to hit the tone somehow, but here we go

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

by: Hosomi Ayako

Naviar Haiku Music Challenge 598
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku598-after-the-typhoon/


Naviar Haiku 598 -- After the TYphoon

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 598:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku598-after-the-typhoon/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Pilot Peak, Wyoming, USA, 2023)

Samples by
freetousesounds.bandcamp.com

after the typhoon - Naviarhaiku598

Although this track was made as a response to:

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Naviar haiku challenge 598, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

It strayed a bit; In the very early stages while I was designing a sound for "Walking in sunshine", everything is assembled in virtual modular using VCV Rack, I played a simple phrase that suggested that it wanted to be a sequence, divergence begins. Probably because I had another project in mind  the original phrase and subsequent sequence development borrowed quite heavily from Steve Reich, I split off that version and pulled back a bit for this track although the roots are still there hence the minimalism tag. 

With the sequences complete I went back and designed an intro, not quite a typhoon but serves as as opening. And an outro; not really sunshine but while experimenting with modulated frequency modulation I unexpectedly found a sound I'd been hunting for a couple of weeks ago, it made a nice contrast so I kept it.

With all the elements in place I set up and did a one take multi-track live improvised mix, I also manipulated a couple of probability parameters, other modulations were built into the patch. 

A couple of eternal effects:
There is a final layer of reverb wash derived from the sunshine element made with SpaceBlender from Soundtoys and included in the performance via recorded parameter automation.      

I added a little bit of tape echo, Stardust 201 from Cherry Audio, to the sequences.
 
After all the usual blending a tweaking I added The Free Vinyl plugin from iZotope, felt like it would fit on the opening of the track.

After The Typhoon - (naviarhaiku - 598)

Tori, hitori, hi: A bird, alone, in the sun
鳥、一人、日

Based on Hosomi Ayako's haiku:
野分あとひとり歩きに日あまねし　
nowaki ato hitori aruki ni hi amaneshi

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku598-after-the-typhoon/

Typhoon recording by ljdyfstories @ freesound
https://freesound.org/people/ljdyfstories/sounds/394001/
Sterna sumatrana recordings thanks to xeno-canto:
https://xeno-canto.org/species/Sterna-sumatrana
Pedal steel guitar by Travis Linville, with fectoper additional treatments

Tori, hitori, hi (naviarhaiku598)

NaviarHaïku-598

Inspiré par le haïku de Hosomi Ayako (1907–1997)

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere




After the typhoon



Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 598.
Sur un haïku de Hosomi Ayako :

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


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