This week we celebrate the 500th Naviar Haiku weekly challenge. My first response to the Naviar Haiku challenge was on week 3. Naviar Haiku is my muse and I have submitted over 60 pieces in response to the challenge over the last 500 weeks. Thanks Marco, for building a great community around this idea!

Celebrating 500 Naviar Haiku

Naviarhaiku

All submissions to Haiku 319:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/02/19/naviarhaiku320-the-last-kite/

To participate:

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

- Publish your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku145)”

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

haiku #320: the last kite / carries the setting sun / in its wings

Hawk's Flight

Hawk's Flight [Naviarhaiku003 - Pale Sun]

Prehistoric civilization under extraterrestrial influence.

Primogenitor

Primogenitor (Naviarhaiku004 - New Radio)

Full of Dreams (Naviarhaiku008 - Empty Seashell)

Winter Ghosts (Naviarhaiku 009 - Winter Ghosts)

This piece was planned on the Haiku: "They encounter a cathedral of ice at the end of the world".  The seed of inspiration started with the thought of wind, cracking ice and what the inside of an ice cavern might sound like.
The composition is 4/4, 120 BPM, and in Cm.  There are 7 tracks of laser gun zaps, time stretched, reversed, chopped and screwed, mostly providing the wind-like sounds and some sub harmonics.  I used 3 tracks of Ice cracking Foley.  Everything is done in the box on a MacBook Pro, using Logic Pro X, Native Instruments Kontakt for singing bowls and the strings, Massive for bass, and Absynth for the melody and an FX track.  The large drum, cymbal roll, and sweep are from Quantum Leap Storm Drum 2.  The tuba, trombone section, and horn section are EastWest Hollywood Brass. I used Izotope Alloy 2 and Ozone 5 for mixing and mastering.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9

Frozen in the End of All - (Naviarhaiku012-They Encounter) (disquiet0117-naviarjunto)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
239 week haiku
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Mind Dreams Again (Naviarhaiku 239)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
240 week Haiku
naviarlab.tumbir.com/

Sunlight Mixed With Dust (Naviarhaiku 240)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
241 week Haiku.
naviarlab.tumbir.com/

Nightfall (Naviarhaiku 241)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
242 week haiku
Naviarlab.tumbir.com/

The Pine Shadow Falls On The Tent Wall & I See The Shrine (Naviarhaiku 242)

This track was created for the
Naviar Haiku group
243 week haiku
naviarlab.tumbir.com

Play softly with headphones.

Mountain And Moor Not One Thing That Moves Morning Snow (Naviarhaiku 243)

the last kite
carries the setting sun
in its wings

haiku by Aju Mukhopadhyay https://www.boloji.com/articles/13046/affable-writer-aju-mukhopadhyay
picture by Dewang Gupta https://unsplash.com/@dewang

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

wings

halF kitE [naviarhaiku320]

lemon (naviarhaiku319)

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

2020-02-20

The Last Kite ( Naviarhaiku 320 )

the last kite
carries the setting sun
in its wings

naviarhaiku320: the last kite

sampling of acoustic guitar, alto recorder  and  metals, created into virtual instruments,sequenced  and  processed visually  in Metasynth.
Interpreted Kite as both  bird and toy floating and circling high  in the sky.

TheKiteThatFollowstheSun(NaviarHaiku320)

This weeks haiku inspired a study of film music, with concentration on the styles of Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, and Hans Zimmer.

Ken of the Elliptic

Ken of the Elliptic (NaviarHaiku320)

I'm a composer, working from a 3' x 5' studio (some may call it a dinette) in a 5th wheel camper, while traveling the United States. I've been on the road for six years, so most of my recent work will have come from a different state (of mind and location) during my travels.

Music makes me feel better about everything. I don't know that I'm ever happier than when I am creating. I sometimes wonder if creativity isn't one of the primary keys to happiness. Do you ever feel better than when you say, "Look what I did."? This phrase magically conjures the purest sense of childlike joy.

Music works for every part of our lives. We all have music for when we are sad, happy, celebrating, meeting others, when we are alone, and even when we are lonely. Did a song come to mind as you read each of those situations? I remember the first song I ever heard on the radio, on my first bus ride to kindergarten. One of my favorite musical memories is playing in a band for steel beach on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.

I love telling stories with music. Everybody loves John Coffey in the Green Mile, but Mr. Jingles should have a song commemorating his reaching and joining the circus at Mouseville. If you agree, join me for this and similar journeys. The music here is synthetic, but as real as you would choose to have it.

My music most often lands on Soundcloud first and is inspired by one of my favorite communities, Naviar Haiku:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
I find writing to a Haiku prompt sufficiently limiting and exquisitely inspiring.

Ken of the Elliptic (NaviarHaiku320)

Raymond Stull