Submission to naviarhaiku#548 https://naviarlab.tumblr.com
Haiku by Jack Kerouac https://livinghaikuanthology.com/index-of-poets/livinglegacies/2650-jack-kerouac.html
Picture by Francesco Ungaro https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-white-starry-night-l3XNNaZ3EH0

. . .
The sound of silence
is all the instruction
you'll get
. . .

Naviarhaiku#548 /the sound of silence

Created in response to:

Year's end,
all corners
of this floating world, swept.

Naviar Haiku challenge 573, challenge details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

The haiku more or less said it all for this one, so yes a bit obvious but had to be done. I knew I was going to start and end with collages of samples so created sequenced elements and some semi-random pings in virtual modular using VCV Rack. As usual I set up multi-track recording and physical controls then recorded a live one take improvisation. 

I then added the sampled elements, initially the New Year midnight chimes, these are my own recording. The bell as recorded didn't fit the final mis so I pitched it down a couple of semitones.

All the other samples are from Freesound:

Sweeping by L.i.Z.e.L.l.E_+ -- https://freesound.org/s/707736/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
sweeping_tile_floor_with_broom.wav by daboy291 -- https://freesound.org/s/138067/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

spanish party noisemaker by beerre -- https://freesound.org/s/344965/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
telethon cheering2m57s060213.mp3 by John Sipos -- https://freesound.org/s/190597/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
fireworks big +slapback echo reflection4 Montreal, Canada.flac by kyles -- https://freesound.org/s/453100/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
fireworks1.wav by adrianmoore -- https://freesound.org/s/133670/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Year's End (Naviarhaiku - 573)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 04 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used Audio Damage Phosphor 3, some DX100 samples, Behringer ProVS mini, several native Live devices, a few Arturia effects.

This original version of "Doll Anatomies" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 574, On New Year’s Day.  

on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms.

by: Kobayashi Issa

As customary, the first haiku of the year is by Kobayashi Issa.

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Art photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 15 Dec 2017, Massapequa, NY, USA. 

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Doll Anatomies (naviarhaiku574)

On New Year’s Day [naviarhaiku574]

Margin Shoulder

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves! 

The event Bosun refers to is the eruption of Mount Asama in 1783, which instantly killed over 1,000 people. The toxic ash traveled 100 miles to Edo, making farmland useless and causing many more people to starve.

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson

Picture by Wyxina Tresse

Vulcanic fresh young leaves_naviarhaiku579

gigo

neuver shapes

miXture_03

More on the 687th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Applied Science — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that includes physiological and behavioral techniques — at https://disquiet.com/0687/

Naviarhaiku#548 /the sound of silence

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