This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by 
Clive Bennett’s poem “distant hills … / beyond the gate / winter stillness”


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/01/naviarhaiku478-distant-hills/


Tracklist:


John Wright - Between Us
Night Note - Distant Hills
Douglas James's DarkWaterBlue - Distant Hills Winter Stillness
Ingvar Tautra - Beyond The Gate
Seramind - Ferne Hügel
Leon Clowes - Beyond The Gate


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #259 – distant hills – Wednesday 15th March 2023

Started with sustained chords on an old Harmonium added virtual synths and sample based instruments in Logic and Metasynth.
accompanying video:     @pauledmundio  https://www.instagram.com/p/CvyI5h-sAai/

Journey OF a Drifting Butterfly(NaviarHaiku 501)

Naviar Haiku 501 - https://youtu.be/KAWA-ijbnvs

lull in the rain…
drifting into the bedroom
a butterfly!

Enomoto Seifu was a female poet born into a samurai family in 1732. She focused on her writing mostly after her husband’s death in the mid-1750s, and later in life, she became a Buddhist nun. Her works were collected and published after her death by her son.

To participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Haiku by Enomoto Seifu https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/poet/enomoto-seifu/

Picture by Liviu C. https://unsplash.com/photos/_4CAr6AAF0Y

The Interstices of Rain

Electric guitar, violin bow, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps. All sounds, voice, mixing and production: VSS, lyrics: H. P. Lovecraft.

Part 5 of  "Polaris" https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"The Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey..."
From H.P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

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Polaris 5 - Trapped

Naviar Haiku 510

in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall

Elliot Carson is a teacher living in Japan who doubles as an artist/designer/translator in his free time. He writes haiku under the pen name EKC and is currently working to self-publish his first book of haiku.

To participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Haiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/

Picture by Lazarescu Alexandra https://unsplash.com/photos/vRiylUiR6ew

The Soul's Rainy Night

The Soul's Rainy Night (NaviarHaiku510)

This EP was first released as a tape at Already Dead Tapes (AD168). The tape has been sold out, but the EP is available over at Already Dead Tapes : alreadydeadtapes.bandcamp.com/album/low-serotonin

"The world of ambient noise is one that can easily become monotonous and redundant. Expectations of these “spaced out” arrangements are usually met due to the listener’s understanding of the genre. There is, however, comfort in knowing what is coming from these musical experiences; but it is lovely when an artist throws you through a loop and knocks you out of your comfort zone. This is exactly what Lcoma & The Next Commuter drop into your lap on their new release ‘Low Serotonin’. Naturally progressing from their last release with Already Dead (2012’s ‘Waiting to be Spoken To’), the group takes you to a land where gravity holds no bearing, and time is only a myth. Unlike many ambient noise based albums ‘Low Serotonin’ plays more like an organic feeling than a movie score. It is music to implode to; slowly winding its way around and through movement after movement into a victorious conclusion."

- Wesley Nowlin, Already Dead Tapes, 2015
credits
released May 12, 2015

Low Serotonin

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Low Serotonin (Lcoma & The Next Commuter)

2023-12-07

NLS - 2023 - 12 - 07 In Clouds

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

winter - 12:10:23, 6.37 PM

luck horns

PlanetS

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.

The Interstices of Rain

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