Michael Mooser 
This is in response to the wonderful naviarhaiku series from Naviar Records in the UK. this is challenge 511, I did the first 52 the first year and occassionally through the years to show my support of collaboration. Starting to be back into it now and enjoying it. Hope you do as well, it is emoting what the haiku says, I hope.

in dark autumn nights dew and the new bamboo shoots reaching out to moon        naviarhaiku 511

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

I started playing around in the DAW and somehow ended up with old step samples. The simplest idea of musical shadows are certainly delay and reverb, and initially I built a (virtual) modular thing behind the steps that changes the shape of the steps but still lets us think of the original, just as shadows only hint at what cast them.

The second idea was the drums, and what could be the shadow of a drum kit? I used a looping noise sample (coming in very late, and not too loud) and carved out a kind of kick drum with negative noise using filters, so the absence of sound is the shadow here. I'll tell you why it has to be like this at some point far, far away … 

The third idea was to use two different types of motifs in one scale: An FM synthesizer using only the black keys of a blues scale (the real thing), and a classic basic saw synthesizer using only white keys (the shadow). 

Em ... and in general: first comes the real and then you hear the shadows, and in the end there are only shadows, because the word also stands for a kind of vague memory that continues to have an effect even after the real has disappeared. And remember, samples are shadows of real sounds …

The result is undoubtedly overly intellectual and musically not a gem. But it wouldn't be experimental music if the experiment couldn't - as here - go badly wrong. That's why I kept it under 3 minutes ...

Image: Dall-E

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More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

3 Shadows [disquiet0622]

Enjoy the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/QViQOfQU5WE

morning service
offering its fragrance
a white lily

Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

More information @ https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF servicE [naviarhaiku519]

Mornings Service-naviarhaiku519

:::
my contribution
to
Naviar Records
Haiku Challenge 519

my interpretation of a
haiku
by
Sôen Nakagawa

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morning service
offering its fragrance
a white lily

li(ly_rics) ::: naviar haiku 519

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

Winter sky–
Distant dreams
Shattered and flown away

(Tr. by John Stevens)

Haiku by Santoka Taneda https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm

More information @ https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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halF shattereD [naviarhaiku520]

disquiet0625

More on this 626th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Audio Journal 2023 — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at: https://disquiet.com/0626/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0626-audio-journal-2023/

Audio Journal 2023

Disquiet Junto | Audio Journal 2023 - disquiet0626

Play Barrow here! https://gryhme.itch.io/barrow

Forest Cliffs

Experimental noise listening experience. Big collection of works under different aliases, released under my new, more conceptual alias "goldeneye". Retrowave, noise, ambient, plunderphonics & other interesting genres, that emerge on the album, will leave you at least surprised by its rudeness and absurdity, and will certainly leave their mark on your head.

album on my Bandcamp: https://dumbravefactory.bandcamp.com/album/the-chants-of-mutual-feelings

li(ly_rics) ::: naviar haiku 519

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