“Keep the Americans out!” - excerpt from the text of decrypted secret memo concerning the ‘ghost rocket’ phenomena of the late 1940s.

Before there were flying saucers, ufos or unidentified aerial phenomena, there were ‘ghost rockets’, numbers of which entered Swedish airspace in the years following WWII. The photo shows Swedish Air Force scientific officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll searching for one such “ghost rocket" seen crashing July 19, 1946, in Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden.

Ghost Rockets

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.

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

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

The Interstices of Rain

"Town Path" was originally created back on September 7, 2022, over a year prior to its release. Nothing about this song was particularly difficult to create; it could have easily been released much earlier.

For a very long time, the working title was simply "Town", and the idea of changing it to "Town Path" was first considered on March 23. I only changed the project title on the release date.

Musically, "Town Path" is very minimalist, which is a deliberate break from the dense production I usually gravitate towards.

Sinny: programming, processing, voices, castanets

Town Path

Naviar Haiku 505

in search of a name
the torrent of rainwater
down the canyon wall

Mark Miller is an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight (Ginninderra Press, 2020), a selection of his haiku from over 400 that have been published in international journals and anthologies. His haiku have been featured on buses and trains, on the walls of a public swimming pool, and on art installations in parks and malls. Mark lives in Shoalhaven Heads, Australia.

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Haiku by Mark Miller

Picture by Dan Meyers https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-bird-flying-in-the-sky-OekzV5WdHNU

The Path to Belonging

The Path to Belonging (NaviarHaiku505)

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

The last movement of the String Quartet No. 17 (2023).

Pawel Strzelecki: 4. Finale [String Quartet No. 17 (2023)].

Free flowing rock guitar ballad peaceful and calm

Bleu Finlandais

Old Story

Neon Nocturne

Cubo

Part Two Pensamiento Hippie

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

Raymond Stull