Deadline: 6th March 2024

All submissions to Haiku 530:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku530-taking-it-easy/

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 (naviarhaiku382)”
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.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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haiku #530: taking it easy / the mouse sleeps too... / spring rain

My Piano Pieces

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
530
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku530-taking-it-easy/

2024-02-29

Taking It Easy ( Naviarhaiku 530 )

My contribution to Naviar Haiku Project 530

Taking It Easy (naviarhaiku530)

Still another exploration of Neutone_Gen, with the source material being created from the text of the haiku itself ...

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

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

more halF unusuaL

halF asleeP [naviarhaiku530]

Electronic composition, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Easy (naviarhaiku530)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 530

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku: http://haikuguy.com/issa/

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Picture by Nikhil kumar

Submission deadline: 6th March 2024

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Spring Rain

Spring Rain (naviarhaiku530)

Naviar Haiku 530

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Picture by Nikhil kumar

Sleeping Somewhere

Sleeping Somewhere (NaviarHaiku530)

https://youtu.be/rn_zmYjNv6E

The corn outside my window grew an inch during a ten-minute rain. The field is slowly turning from brown to green, out to the horizon. A robin stares into my open window, seeming interested in the sound of piano.

Piano Rain

The simplest of piano pieces, extracted from a week of catharsis.

The Sound of Light (Piano)

A reflection in piano on the moments that come our way.

In Some Unexpected Way

A piano piece in response to the Naviar Haiku 600 ~ 

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Ride in the Pines (Naviar Haiku 600)

A three-handed piano piece in response to:

Naviar Haiku 602
Scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path


Sensory (Naviar Haiku 602)

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.

Sleeping Somewhere (NaviarHaiku530)

Raymond Stull