Name: Magnolia Sky (naviarhaiku523) by ray_cobley
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

This time I get naked like never before ... it's a three-track environmental recording (recorded on the phone) in late January last year. my Mother, my Father and I during a dialogue, in our local dialect. With the television on, and some recorded noises ... (of a breathing exercise device that my father used in those days following a cadiac surgery he had undergone.) I was there to monitor his condition and to provide support ... (it was a delicate moment, for him as for us.) For many of you this publication may mean nothing, but for me it means a lot .. It means for me as an attempt to fix something in time (which erases everything. .) But those days I want them to remain etched in my memory and this is probably an unconscious attempt to fix them in time .. Several times I have listened to this kind of song .. In the silence and solitude of my current apartment. In an attempt to further elaborate this sound material. And I had the feeling that I didn't feel alone. But for now, it seems perfect that way. And I decided to share it with you. Maybe over time there will be further developments ... but waiting to be mature to grasp them, I would like to thank you for listening. These are my parents, my ancestors, from whom I am descended and whom I want to honor in this way. thank you.

Ancestors

Sonopoem by Ilaria Boffa
Fieldrecording taken by IB using jrf hydrophone and h6 zoom recorder.

On the night of 9th October 1963 at 22.39, a landslide from Monte Toc* fell down into the Vajont artificial lake (Pordenone, Italy) causing a mega-tsunami and a seismic shock twice the power of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The 250 metre wave that overtopped the Vajont Dam with 50 million m3 of water overflowing in total (other two waves were simultaneously produced), killed over 3000 people. 1910 victims and among the 1300 missing, many were dismembered and atomised by the air mass movement blast. The seismic shock and its earth tremors were recorded as far away as Brussels and Vienna. 
The white dam, perfectly built and still intact, is the tallest in Europe and considered by experts, a work of art.
Tina Merlin, journalist and partisan, wrote, denounced and opposed the construction of the Vajont Dam on Monte Toc (geologically unstable) from 1957 till the disaster in 1963. 

In figures:
- 20 seconds for the landslide to reach the water level
- 45 seconds to fill the hole
- 270 million cubic metres of rock slid down from Monte Toc
- 25 million cubic metres of water overtopped the dam
- 250 metres high, the wave overtopping the dam (50 million cubic metres of water overflowed in 3 waves)
- 25 seconds to the impact
- twice the power of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1910 victims, half of them impossible to identify
- 1300 missing, many dismembered and atomised by the air mass movement blast

'The Dam, for Tina

Tick-Toc*, Tick-Toc, 
Tick-Toc.
All elements buzzing
the earth first sliding
implacable, unending
and then water 
bursting and collapsing
the air blasting
burning and flaying 
limbs and futures
dismembered and 
atomised.

Tick-Toc, Tick-Toc
Tick-Toc.
Almost history 
kneeled down before
the stone.
Almost a war 
its spectres of trees subsiding 
rocks whirling down into
the hole and howls aborted 
perpetually.
Almost a genesis
new order.

Tick-Toc, Tick-Toc,
Tick-Toc. 
Oh damned dam
you, impassive artefact
double-curved arch
towering above, perfect
tiara embellishing 
human hubris.
You, tragic Niobe
still, tonguing your lake
your concrete womb.
You, work of art.

La Diga, a Tina

Tic-Toc*, Tic-Toc, 
Tic-Toc.
Gli elementi a rumoreggiare
lo scivolare primo della terra
implacabile, interminabile
e poi l’acqua 
che esplode e collassa 
l’aria che detona
ustiona e scortica  
membra e futuro 
dilaniati e 
polverizzati.

Tic-Toc, Tic-Toc
Tic-Toc.
Quasi la storia 
inginocchiata dinanzi
alla pietra.
Quasi una guerra 
i suoi spettri di alberi che sprofondano 
rocce che vorticano giù
nel buco e urla abortite 
in perpetuo.
Quasi una genesi
un ordine nuovo.

Tic-Toc, Tic-Toc,
Tic-Toc. 
Oh dannata diga
tu, artefatto impassibile
arcata che doppia ti curvi
troneggi, perfetta
tiara che adorna 
l’arroganza umana.
Tu, tragica Niobe
immobile, a leccare il tuo lago 
il tuo utero di cemento.
Tu, opera d’arte.'

The Dam, for Tina/ La Diga, a Tina

The End Time

Naviar Haiku 522

lightning – 
flashing in the east yesterday 
and today in the west 

Kyorai was a Japanese haiku poet who first trained as a martial artist before he started writing and became one of Basho’s first disciples. 

Haiku by Mukai Kyorai 

Picture by jessezhou 

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Haiku by Natsume Soseki - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Natsume-Soseki

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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.

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