Name: Night So Bright (naviarhaiku363) by ray_cobley in haiku #363: only a chirping insect / told me it was night / so bright was the moon
Duration: 6 min 2 s
Description: Real-time recording created in Pure Data.i

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haiku #363: only a chirping insect / told me it was night / so bright was the moon

So sing the leaves of Willow.

"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)

In the vaults of radiation 01

31/ATLAS

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Buzz Tremolo (naviarhaiku603)

Thomas Sander × Aoki Satoru - Mountain
Guitar, electronics, samplings: Thomas Sander, Schwerin, Germany
Prepared bass: Aoki Satoru – Tokyo, Japan
July 28, 2025

Thomas Sander
https://soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295

Aoki Satoru
https://linktr.ee/tototod

Streaming Link

Thomas Sander × Aoki Satoru - Mountain

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

the rows of tea bushes-naviarhaiku604

so my friend

In the vaults of radiation 04

Cryo Drift

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
363 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2020-12-17

only a  chirping Insect ( Naviarhaiku 363 )

only a chirping insect
told me it was night
so bright was the moon

haiku by Ochi Etsujin https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/etsujin.php

picture by Alex Spataru https://unsplash.com/@spat

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

filching harp

halF chirpinG [naviarhaiku363]

Real-time recording created in Pure Data.i

Night So Bright (naviarhaiku363)

trailer for video work in progress
https://vimeo.com/492624911

NaviarHaiku 363 :
only a chirping insect
told me it was night
so bright was the moon

written by. "Kinkaoo"  Ochi Etsujin (1656-1739)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

This haiku reminds me of the full moon lit nights that do look like a spooky kind of daylight in the bush- from the chirping insects I imagine drifting back in moon time, many moons and thousands of years.

Many moons ago(NaviarHaiku363)

My original thought was to make a synth insect chirp, but in the end I started experimenting with cross modulating oscillators with noise, filters and VCAs and used that as a 'insect' texture. The bright repeated element was meant to evoke the procession of night, while the drones were the darkness and moon. I think some field recorded ambience would have been a nice addition, but overall it worked okay.

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This track was inspired by the following Haiku:
Only a chirping insect -
told me it was night,
so bright was the moon.

Insects' Moon (naviarhaiku363)

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.

Night So Bright (naviarhaiku363)

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