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

Deadline: 22nd March 2023

All submissions to Haiku 480:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/15/naviarhaiku480-filling-my-shadows/

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)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- 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.

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haiku #480: filling my shadows / glorious rays bringing growth / heavenly ascent

This album is dedicated to the creator of Naviar Haiku and the artists who contributed to its ongoing success as a weekly challenge and community. These songs are all inspired by the ideas and prompts of Naviar Haiku and the creativity of the people involved.

This collection of songs represents a journey through light and dark, experiencing:
The joy of waking on a favorite morning.
The air we sometimes take for granted, in all its forms.
The sky and its various contents at any given moment.
Lost children who don't know they are lost...and then do.
Space travel, dark corridors,underwater caves, celestial objects to infinity.
The smallest hero in "The Green MIle".
When being is limited.

1st Time for Everything

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)

filling my shadows
glorious rays bringing growth
heavenly ascent

haiku by Jennifer Doty https://twitter.com/jenncord

picture by Elton Sa https://unsplash.com/@bigeruta

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

heavy hell fan

halF heavenlY [naviarhaiku480]

This Haiku mix consists of several field recordings made from a resonating old iron bridge in the wind and falling melting snow in the morning sunlight.
Both these sources gave me this feeling of heavenly energy; both snow and wind being observed in the sky.

Heavely Ascent - naviarhaiku480

multiply layered drones. polyrhythmic drums. cymbal reverb.

[naviarhaiku480] ascent

Made for Naviar Records' 480th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/15/naviarhaiku480-filling-my-shadows/

Filling my shadows [naviarhaiku480]

The track is a performance on a modular synthesis system, recorded in real-time with no overdubbing or post-editing.

Gaetano Fiorin - Rays (naviarhaiku480)

Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bwZVKV1onAQ

Naviar Haiku 480:

filling my shadows
glorious rays bringing growth
heavenly ascent

Jennifer Doty was born and raised in the beautiful wilds of the Ozarks in southern Missouri. She was taught to value literature, music, the arts and spirituality. Her upbringing encouraged creativity, open mindedness and self-expression.

Always attracted to the outdoors, she draws much inspiration for her poetry from nature, as well as human nature. Her interest in poetry and writing as a form of self-expression began in her early teens, only recently is she beginning to publicly share her work.

Jennifer obtained a B.S. in Child, Adult and Family Services and an M.S. in Health Sciences. She has always had a passion for helping others. She raised 2 children and currently spends time helping with her four grandchildren. She enjoys family, writing, travel, photography, painting and working on improving her guitar skills.

Skyward

Skyward (NaviarHaiku480)

Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YXsyQppw_d0

Naviar Haiku 481:

travel home
even the air
has changed

Wai Mei Wong is a former early childhood educator living in Toronto, Canada. Her picture book Hello, Dark was shortlisted for the 2022 IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and chosen for the 2022 CCBC Spring Best Book for Kids & Teens Selection. She enjoys poetry, nature walks and funny movies.

She started writing Haiku in October 2022, after she became curious about this deceivingly simplistic form of poetry. Her inspiration comes mostly from her experience or the stories from people close to her.

Likeness to Air

Likeness to Air (NaviarHaiku481)

https://youtu.be/5OIx0WwKgzQ

Naviar Haiku 316 inspired me to pursue a Bladerunner theme.  I did my best to write something worthy of the movie's soundtrack and in line with this goal is 18 tracks, all made with U-He Tyrell N6.

Over the years, this song has taken on other meanings, and often reminds me of scene, created in my mind by a passage in a Piers Anthony Xanth novel. The Brain Coral, a character in the 2nd Xanth book, Source of Magic, had the ability to suspend beings in its preservative fluids for eventual release later in history. To this point, the theme of the song has changed, in its video form, to a peek into the Brain Coral's underwater cave.
https://youtu.be/5OIx0WwKgzQ

From a Lighted Finite Vantage

From a Lighted Finite Vantage (NaviarHaiku316)

https://youtu.be/cWC_iNIicps
Naviar Haiku 367

morning light
the first blossoms of spring
bloom over-night

The Passing of First Light

The Passing of First Light (NaviarHaiku367)

https://youtu.be/PiB9D6IH4pQ
Naviar Haiku 373

A lost child crying
stumbling over the dark fields
catching fireflies

The Dark Fields of Fear and Joy

The Dark Fields of Fear and Joy (NaviarHaiku373)

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.

Skyward (NaviarHaiku480)

Raymond Stull