Name: Stumbling (naviarhaiku373) by ray_cobley in haiku #373: A lost child crying / stumbling over the dark fields… / catching fireflies
Duration: 4 min 38 s
Description: Real-time recording created in Pure Data.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

All submissions to Haiku 373:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/02/24/naviarhaiku373-a-lost-child-crying/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”

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- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

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- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #373: A lost child crying / stumbling over the dark fields… / catching fireflies

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)

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

2021-02-25

a lost child crying ( Naviarhaiku 373 )

A lost child crying
stumbling over the dark fields…
catching fireflies

haiku by Yoshida Ryusui https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/ryusui.php

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt

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

mans bullfight

halF stumblinG [naviarhaiku373]

Orchestral samples, solo cello and synthesizers

For this haiku:


A lost child crying⠀
stumbling over the dark fields…⠀
catching fireflies⠀
⠀
Poem by Yoshida Ryusui (1691-1758).
Photo by DD (Paris, 2020)

The Dark Fields (naviarhaiku373)

A lost child crying
stumbling over the dark fields…
catching fireflies

The haiku of the week is by Yoshida Ryusui (1691-1758). Very little is known about him, except he’s often cited and quoted as a poet who exemplified the key element in haiku of kireji or cutting word.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 3rd March 2021

haiku by Yoshida Ryusui https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/ryusui.php

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt

Lost firefly [naviarhaiku373 - A lost child crying]

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Naviar Haiku 373

A lost child crying
stumbling over the dark fields…
catching fireflies

The haiku of the week is by Yoshida Ryusui (1691-1758). Very little is known about him, except he’s often cited and quoted as a poet who exemplified the key element in haiku of kireji or cutting word.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 3rd March 2021

haiku by Yoshida Ryusui https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/ryusui.php

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt

Illuminating Shapes (naviarhaiku373)

Real-time recording created in Pure Data.

Stumbling (naviarhaiku373)

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.

Stumbling (naviarhaiku373)

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