Naviar Haiku challenge 101 - 150

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
139 week haiku
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in the track is used in a lot of sounds from various railways station, the foundation of the line sounds from Yamaha MX49 (This time it will be around for a little hardcore people audience :-)

2016-08-31

insomnia - Railway of ghosts (Naviar Haiku 139)

Inspired by a haiku by Yu Chang http://www.ahapoetry.com/PP0601..htm
Image remixed from a photo by photodarren https://flic.kr/p/ouGb7g

This piece was created, recorded live playing one long low D on a Roland Juno-D while manipulating the Filter Cutoff, Resonance and LFO Speed and Depth.



 Naviar Haiku

Insomnia in D (the line, on a string)[naviarhaiku139]

This week's Naviar Haiku is by Yu Chang: 
"Insomnia - / the train tracks are silent/ all night long".

This is a modular synth piece, with me playing the mixer and changing levels, effects, and EQ.

More on the Naviar Haiku here: http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/ 

Insomnia (naviarhaiku139)

September, 2016. A pastiche including some of my earlier sounds:

"Rail Rode Sunset"  from tsk tsk: https://unnecessaryenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/rail-rode-sunset

and

"bonbonbon" from Villages: https://unnecessaryenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/bonbonbon

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Up All Night (Naviar Haiku 139)

used the last disquiet track https://hearthis.at/sevenism/shifting-chasm/ as the sound source and fed it into itself an regurgitated it.
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insomnia -
the train tracks are silent
all night long


 

 
DEADLINE: 7th September

Poem by Yu Chang http://www.ahapoetry.com/PP0601..htm

Picture by photodarren 
https://flic.kr/p/ouGb7g

 

 


 - Make music in response to the assigned haiku.
- If you're a Soundcloud user, upload the track on Soundcloud and message me privately the track's URL; alternatively you can send me your composition directly via Dropbox
- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku139)”


For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Fever Dream (naviarhaiku139)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
140 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Korg Microkorg XL+   and VST fireworks

2016-09-08

Fireworks against the evening sky(Naviar Haiku 140)

Contribution to the Naviar Haiku for naviarhaiku140

Poem by Charles Reznikoff
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/charles-reznikoff

Picture by Varshesh Joshi
https://unsplash.com/photos/BIiC3Dmkv9g

http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Evening Sky Far From Fireworks (naviarhaiku140)

The latest Naviar Haiku project;
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2016/09/07/naviarhaiku140-fireworks-against-the-evening-sky/

Fireworks against the evening sky
are pretty and even dramatic:
but I prefer the crescent moon and evening star

The author of the 140th Haiku music challenge is Charles Reznikoff, an American poet and one of the major exponents of Objectivism, a school of poetry that emphasized simplicity and clarity over formal structure and rhyme, that emerged in the 1930s. You can find out more about him at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/charles-reznikoff 

Headphones recommended :)


I prefer the Crescent Moon & Evening Star [Naviarhaiku140]

Fireworks against the evening sky / are pretty and even dramatic: / but I prefer the crescent moon and evening stars.

created with the waldorf 4pole and the matrix-12 synthesizerin one live-take..

Naviarhaiku140

hofuku sochi 報復措置 -  fireworks against the evening sky [Naviarhaiku140]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
141 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2016-09-15

on a grass pillow (Naviar Haiku 141)

Designed for Naviar Records Haiku 141. 

See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2016/09/14/naviarhaiku141-perfect-calm/

On a grass pillow [Naviar Haiku #141]

The latest Naviar Haiku project;
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2016/09/14/naviarhaiku141-perfect-calm/

Perfect Calm
on a grass pilow
far from my hut

Headphones recommended   d('<')b

Contemplating Perfect Calm [Naviarhaiku141]

Contribution to the Naviar Haiku for naviarhaiku141

Poem by Ryōkan Taigu
http://terebess.hu/english/haiku/ryokan.html

Picture by Sam Austin
https://unsplash.com/photos/wJjIHuNpLS8

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Lie Down On A Grass Pillow (naviarhaiku141)

This week's Naviar Haiku is by Ryōkan Taigu:
Perfect calm / on a grass pillow / far from my hut

I wanted to create a piece that was ever changing, yet never changing - like watching clouds pass by, the experience feels much the same throughout, despite the changes. This is a reworking of a modular patch I had made for this week's Disquiet Junto - made much much slower but on the same principles. To the slowly moving bed I added a 13 note repeating sequence, which occasionally samples itself to add extra notes in. Because it is sampled at intervals that are unrelated to 13, and the quantiser is having different chords selected (by the slower sequences), this makes the sequence constantly and very subtly evolve.  It is a very long piece at nearly half an hour, but I felt it needed that space for the 'enjoyable boredom' to set in, for it to truly feel meditative, like lying in the grass watching the drifting clouds and not thinking about your 'hut'. 

100% modular synth, one take with no overdubs. My only interventions were to fade in and fade out at the beginning and end. 

Perfect Calm (NaviarHaiku141)

This week's Naviar Haiku is by Sôen Nakagawa: 
One note of the Shakuhachi / resounds endlessly / piercing the winter clouds

This is single a live take on the modular synth.   I tried to get a breathy, flute-like sound, which I then ran through Strymon BigSky with none of the dry signal mixed in. I also ran this through Clouds, to sample and pitch-shift the notes, and ultimately to hold the sound endlessly at the finish of the track. The main repeated ostinato is several sine waves which are delicately frequency modulating each other, with an envelope that gradually changes from percussive to sustained and back. Bass is a simple Dark Energy patch, and the higher sequence is an 11-note sequence that has extra notes added occasionally, and the envelope on the voice picks out a more regular pattern so that the '11-ness' is not so apparent. 

One Note Of The Shakuhachi (naviarhaiku142)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
142 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2016-09-22

One note of the shakuhachi (Naviar Haiku 142)

Written as companion to the following Haiku by Ryōkan Taigu:

Perfect calm
on a grass pillow
far from my hut


For more information and to participate: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Grass Pillow

Grass Pillow [NaviarHaiku141]

one note of the shakuhachi / resounds endlessly / piercing the winter clouds

all tonal sounds except the background pads and drums are created from a broken shakuhachi sample-CD, sampled in real time. 

sampled, mixed and mastered by www.stachy.dj

Naviarhaiku 142

stachy.dj

hofuku sochi 報復措置 - one note of the shakuhachi (or two?) [Naviarhaiku#142]

went literal: one held shakuhachi note, resonating at C1 - C6

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The haiku of the week was written by Sôen Nakagawa, a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world.

The shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute that was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 8th century. If you’re curious to hear how it sounds, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7s-wXZWT5o

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku poem. To participate, visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

DEADLINE: 28th September

Poem by Sôen Nakagawa

Picture by Anne James

shakuhachi d  r   i    f     t (naviarhaiku142)

Written as companion to the following Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa:

One note of the Shakuhachi
resounds endlessly
piercing the winder clouds



For more information and to participate: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Piercing Clouds

Piercing Clouds [NaviarHaiku142]

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