Name: Dream and Reality (naviarhaiku591) by ray_cobley in haiku #591: steady spring rains... / both dream and reality / Mount Yoshino!
Duration: 6 min 28 s
Description: An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

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haiku #591: steady spring rains... / both dream and reality / Mount Yoshino!

ataraxia pinknoises

https://disquiet.com/2025/04/24/disquiet-junto-project-0695-clean-after-each-use/
Komposition1028 Klavier

turned and turned, and turned out to be bad (disquiet0695)

iosslo

steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino! 

Ōshima Ryōta was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. Some sources say he was a disciple of Yosa Buson, while others say his master was Hattori Ransetsu. He's mostly remembered for his essay “Bashō ku kai” 芭蕉句解 ('Study of Bashō's haiku') published in 1759, a magnum opus of his studies and literary theories on Matsuo Bashō's work.

Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta: https://thepoetryhour.com/poets/oshima-ryota/

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halF realitY [naviarhaiku591]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
591
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

2025-05-01

steady spring rains... (Naviarhaiku 591)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 29 Oct 2005 & 30 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Stockhausen Sound & Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, augmented piano, voice & effects.

This original version of "Let's Leave Steady Divided" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 591: Dreadful The Stream.

steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!

by: Ōshima Ryōta

Ōshima Ryōta was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. Some sources say he was a disciple of Yosa Buson, while others say his master was Hattori Ransetsu. He's mostly remembered for his essay “Bashō ku kai” 芭蕉句解 ('Study of Bashō's haiku') published in 1759, a magnum opus of his studies and literary theories on Matsuo Bashō's work.

Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Aug 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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Let's Leave Steady Divided (naviarhaiku591)

Seven ronroco tracks
Infra bass
Orchestral Samples

Composed and recorded by Daniel Diaz, 1st May 2025

for this haiku:

Steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!


Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta
Photo by DD, Iceland  2024


@naviar-records

Dream and Reality (naviarhaiku591)

A hopefully peaceful track composed for the 591st Naviar Haiku challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Haiku:
steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!
— Ōshima Ryōta

Photo by: Soubhagya Ranjan (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-tree-with-green-leaves-YqFqYd_WQHU)

The rain field recording felt inevitable as a starting point—once in place, the chimes followed naturally. Two measures of gentle drones and a few understated piano notes later, and the piece settled into a safe haven. Nothing more felt necessary.

Steady spring rains (naviarhaiku591)

SPIT OF LAND

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Whesovea

[naviarhaiku591] dream and reality

"Run here, my towhead grandchillen, and let this geezer dandle you upon his knee." - Lester Bangs

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 04 & 05 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, effects

The first sentence in Lester Bangs' posthumous collection "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" is also the first sentence in the essay with the same title. While ostensibly a record review of the Count Five, it's more accurately a work of fiction. Since the early '90s, I haven't read many complete books beyond instructional ones—instead, I graze for inspiration and create my own works. So I pulled out a Kindle app, scrolled until I found a past favorite and here I am.

What I tried to do is capture all sorts of miscommunication—be it literally Lester imagining himself a grandfather (something I don't believe he ever became), or the way he writes in a slang he probably did not speak, in character. Or my own generation (X) trying to figure out the noise of the generation prior ("who cares about Woodstock when there was Love, garage punks, Pet Sounds and the VU?" was my way of thinking at approximately 20). Or how some of this has not aged well since Lester wrote it, and I know he, being of some conscience and allowing himself revisions and growth might approach it differently now. In the same book, read “The White Noise Supremacists” to experience him struggling with it an emerging skinhead culture. Then, perhaps, how people younger or otherwise different than myself would react to this writer.

The title is an obvious nod at Lester’s character's stolen vernacular and also a reference to an anonymous woman long ago who left a message on an answering machine of my co-improviser where the outgoing message was a snippet of some improv we’d done. She left a message that it was “ugly music.” 

The synths I used here are; Cherry Audio's ARP 2600 & Minimoog emulations; Arturia's DX7; Korg's M1; and the Puremagnetik Klome through a Moogerfooger filter and other things for the textural, almost percussive stuff.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “You Some Ugly Child” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start. The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

You Some Ugly Child (disquiet0705)

Cardboard bridges

Diese Traurigkeit ist nun Alltag I (12-02-2020)

made this one afternoon after cosmic slop in like april 2025? soz if the sub is too loud / badly enveloped at the end :( the artwork is Kandinsky I think? just had it lying about in my downloads folder

the days after (mp3 / early version)

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Dream and Reality (naviarhaiku591)

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