Created on iPad, mixed and mastered with Cubase 14 and Ozone 11

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 605:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku605-just-inside-the-fence/

Photo by zenbytes (Sibratsgfäll, Austria, 2019)


prohibited grounds - Naviarhaiku605

Roland JX 3P and acoustic guitar.
Mooer Ocean Machine

Made for the haiku challenge n. 606 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku606-slightly-faint/

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slightly faint, yet clear (naviarhaiku606)

Hård II

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
609

2025-09-08

revealing in the dark (Naviar Haiku 609)

Unusual glass (naviarhaiku610)

D MACHT ES

Made for the haiku challenge 610 of Naviar records.

dropped glass - its ring outlasts the fall  
Thank you halF unusuaL for offering this haiku!

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

The fall (naviarhaiku610)

My take on this was to use glitches or extraneous sounds that crop up in field recordings. These are usually edited out but here I extracted some from a couple of recordings and joined them to form a continuous sequence. After extending this sequence and adding a touch of reverb and delay I combined it with an evolving electronic drone.

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/.

Field Glitches (disquiet0715)

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not broken (naviarhaiku610)

Admittedly, the extract from the still belies the line in this week's @naviar-records haiku poem challenge. The actual line is "half-asleep eyes", but we'll go with what's in the image. This week I've been collaging splice sounds and playing them live in Ableton, then drastically re-editing. I wanted to mix up how I'm making music. Break habits and form new.

The information about this week's challenge is here:

"half-asleep eyes
open to a dreamlike world
of blossoms"

Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Extract of a picture by Pascal Bullan

Notes from the Penguin Book of Haiku:

nebuki me o / hirakeba hana no / ukiyo kana

Ukiyo, the floating world of pleasure, specifically referred to the pleasure quarters with its various beautiful women (hana, literally ‘blossoms’) as well as to popular theatre and street spectacles.

 

Submission deadline: 24th September 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

half-asleep eye (naviarhaiku611)

Ancient or ancestral dance rhythms emerging from the mists of time and combined with a modern drone. Or is it an ancient drone with modern rhythms?

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.





Ancient and Modern (disquiet0717)

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Ancient and Modern (disquiet0717)

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