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haiku #563: autumn wind... / I am stringing / a plain-wood bow

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
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https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku563-autumn-wind/

2024-10-17

Autumn Wind... (Naviarhaiku 563 )

Recorded, mixed & mastered 16 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

I put together three generative parts for this in Reason - using Grain, Europa & AudioDamage Phosphor. I then moved over the first take of this to Ableton and did some processing there - some dirt, some echo, a touch of reverb. 

This original version of "Shaking Air" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 563, autumn wind…

autumn wind...
I am stringing
a plain-wood bow

by: Mukai Kyorai

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.

This is one of Kyorai's most famous poem, and one that Natsume Sōseki used as an example of great haiku poetry when teaching at a high school in Kumamoto.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 19 Aug 2011, LIRR, NY, USA

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

Shaking Air (naviarhaiku563)

autumn wind...
I am stringing
a plain-wood bow

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.

This is one of Kyorai's most famous poem, and one that Natsume Sōseki used as an example of great haiku poetry when teaching at a high school in Kumamoto.

Haiku by Mukai Kyorai: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukai-Kyorai

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 563

autumn wind...
I am stringing
a plain-wood bow

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.

This is one of Kyorai's most famous poem, and one that Natsume Sōseki used as an example of great haiku poetry when teaching at a high school in Kumamoto.

Haiku by Mukai Kyorai

Picture by Ehud Neuhaus

Submission deadline: 23rd October 2024

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Autumn Wind

Autumn Wind (naviarhaiku563)

Mellow (naviarhaiku563)

Set Yourself Free

The chamber of lost time

Chronogenesis

88_ Lost Art Dance Inspirations - released on 22 September 2025

I was at the Lost Art Festival Vol. 3 in Berlin on 13 September 2025. Light and sound installations and performances were shown in a soon-to-be-abandoned industrial facility. Music acts were also there, of course.
The only dance performance I attended was at the very end of the festival and didn't really impress me at first. But that changed! #ambient #contemplative #jazz #minimal #only5elements #liverecording

(produced with BlocsWave & Launchpad)

Lost Art Dance Inspirations

Remix and combination of VSS's tracks “Rain” and “Love” for a radio feature* - 20 minutes of intense romantic dark ambient made with electric piano, violin-bow on electric guitar, analog bass synthesizer, effect-pedals, unsynchronized loops, two tube amps, breaking glass and field recordings. All sounds, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.
Image: Face mask of a resuscitation dummy (photo: VSS)

Direct downloads enabled - Please respect the indicated CC license terms.
Support this work: EP "Heat - Love - Rain" on Bandcamp: https://velvetsomethingsuperdark.bandcamp.com/album/heat-love-rain-ep

* broadcast informations t.b.a.

Rain/Love (Radio Edit)

Rain&Love (Radio Edit)

Tones for realignment

Good women and history {Tones for her💫}
Don't mess up with time machines!
Back to this epoch of oppression' scenes?
Same for the darker skinned of our kind 🫂
They won't be rushing back here in time

I know 😷
But what about now 🧘🏻
All lands of pining and nudity? 🕯️
Not allowed 🕯️
Some dudes say so 
They skipped school
And they pray too 
Well, Mrs God is waiting for youz with some proofs

She will say, we're all the same
She will say, it's overtime for just the mans game
She will say, they could have fixed things long ago
But your insular bubbles can never tell you so 🧘🤷
She will say I am a man and I love to cry
She will say I am a man and I'm afraid to lie
She will say I'm a man And I embrace all kind
pShe will say we're the same
Humankind

But now is different
We need to change
Free feed femininity
Flower forces arrange
An Earth unbalanced with men at war
As they burn out let's let the girls out to roar
We've tried the strongman
And look where we are
We need this peace by rose
Human flowers
Us men can come too
Tails in between legs

And we can all learn the Earth
And how it we properly wed

♾️Tones for realignment
Tone for her 💫 ♾️

🌎🕯️♾️🧘🏻
Rose power for the Lotus flower
A light shower
Pure amateur hour
Rose power light shower amateur hour
🧘🏻♾️🕯️🌎

We can all learn the Earth
It's properly wed...
We can all learn the Earth
When it's properly wed

Tones for Realignment

When time becomes a loop 1

While the far-flung Asarian homeworld is the first inhabited system that we've discovered, this is not our first time encountering the intelligent cloud beings of Asar. We've learned that Asarian explorers visited our earth thousands of years ago, touching down somewhere in the Nile river valley. When the gas giants finally departed, the Pharaoh whose hospitality they had enjoyed bestowed two gifts on her alien visitors. The first was a scroll with plans they could use to build their own pyramids back home. But the most remarkable gift was a papyrus describing a peculiar set of frequencies that, when resonated in certain sequences, could reveal spiritual and mathematical truths. We believe the audio captured by our surface drone may be a sacred performance of this ancient harmonic "spell".

This one was a lot of fun to put together! It gave me a great excuse to experiment with microtonal composition, and learn how to configure custom tunings in Logic. I chose the Maqam scale, a traditional scale in Arabic music believed to have originated in ancient Egypt. The scale consists of two "half-flats": in this case, A, B half-flat, C, D, E half-flat, F, G, and A. The main melodic line is typical for the scale, arcing from root to  octave and then descending again. The percussion was inspired by reading about Wahda w-Nuss rhythms. 

More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/.

The Asar Sequence (disquiet0718)

Inspired by the poem "The Peace of Wild Things" by the American poet Wendall Berry.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The Peace of Wild Things

Poème de Mélanie Waldor (1796-1871).

Dors à mes pieds !... Rêve d'amour
Mon souffle, comme une caresse,
Glissera sur le pur contour
De ce beau front qu'avec paresse
Tu reposes sur mes genoux.
Dors à mes pieds, tout fait silence,
Hors la branche qui se balance,
Souple et frêle, au-dessus de nous ;
Dors à mes pieds, tout fait silence.

Sous mes baisers clos tes yeux noirs,
Tes yeux où brillent tant de flammes,
Qu'on les croirait les deux miroirs
Où se reflètent nos deux âmes.
Dors à mes pieds !... Rêve d'amour ;
Je suis jalouse de tes rêves,
Comme du temps que tu m'enlèves
Avec le monde chaque jour...
Je suis jalouse de tes rêves !...

Le soleil glisse à l'horizon.
Pas un souffle, pas un nuage...
Un rayon d'or, sur le gazon,
Reste comme un heureux présage !
Nos riches tapis ne sont pas
Aussi doux que ce lit de mousse
Où, folâtre, ta main repousse
Le brin d'herbe effleurant mon bras.
Dors sur l'herbe, les fleurs, la mousse...

Dors à mes pieds !... Rêve d'amour :
Mon souffle, comme une caresse,
Glissera sur le pur contour
De ce beau front qu'avec paresse
Tu reposes sur mes genoux.
Dors à mes pieds, tout fait silence,
Hors la branche qui se balance,
Souple et frêle, au-dessus de nous ;
Dors à mes pieds, tout fait silence.

Dors à mes pieds !

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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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