Sound Fantasy on:

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Naviar Records Haiku Challenge

Mountain Rain

Mountain Rain_Naviarhaiku487

naviarhaiku487:
Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.
haiku: Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/
image: Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Ocean Everywhere [NaviarHaiku487]

Created on iPad with AUM and several AUv3 synths and effects:
SoundScaper, Hilda, Euclidean, FLUSS, Wires, otherdesertcities, RoughRider, BLEASS Granulizer, Eos 2
 
Mastered with Cubase 12 and Ozone 10.

Photo by zenbytes (2014, Vosges Mountains, France)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 487:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/03/naviarhaiku487-sound-of-mountain/

Poem/sample by PlatypusVA:
https://freesound.org/people/PlatypusVA/sounds/440579/

rain - Naviarhaiku 487

in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion

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.

From the Haiku Guy website:

“Perhaps Issa’s dream is symbolic. Like a turtle, he is hunkered inside his shell (hut), waiting out the harsh winter weather. Or, William Nicholas offers a different interpretation, noting that the turtle is linked with good luck and longevity in Japan. In 1812 Issa was still a bachelor; he married two years later. At this point in his life he longed for the good luck of marriage and family life, hence the dream turtle’s teasing laughter?”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 17th May 2023

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Todd Trapani https://unsplash.com/photos/ymEcUhbjCrI

Winter Seclusion (NaviarHaiku488)

Strange Dreams of a Turtle...laughing at us.

Strange Dreams Are Made Of This(NaviarHaiku488)

https://youtu.be/nFlCmypblQo
Naviar Haiku 489

Dividing the autumn sky
Into two
A huge chinquapin tree

Takahama Kyoshi was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was the editor of the haiku magazine Hototogisu (previously edited by Shiki), where he promoted a more traditional style of haiku, as opposed to other popular schools which did not follow the pattern of seventeen syllables at that time.
Kyoshi also highlighted the symbolic function of the kigo (the seasonal reference), even though the more modern trends were already tending towards seasonless haiku.

Trees and Tangents

Trees and Tangents (Naviarhaiku489)

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0595-filter-progression/

Feedback Filterbank (disquiet0595)

Evolution (disquiet 0596)

Official trailer: https://youtu.be/Wn-nPby2pUo?si=NFXoDrD9VTom2HJV
This track is taken from the original motion picture “VAKHIM” by Francesca Pirani, screened on September 6, 2024, at the 81st Venice International Film Festival – Giornate degli Autori (Notti Veneziane). I composed and produced the original soundtrack, basing all the work on the search for sounds capable of representing and evoking the deep memories of the protagonist’s early years in Cambodia, and connecting that world with the Western one into which he was projected after being adopted by the same director at the age of four. The soundtrack moves between thematic lines linked to the emotional realities of the characters and indeterminate sounds, with detailed spatial design created through the Dolby Surround 5.1 system. This piece, combining symphonic orchestra and Cambodian ethnic instruments, represents a sonic synthesis of the entire soundtrack. It was conceived and mixed in Dolby Surround 5.1, where the Western orchestral sounds are positioned in the front and the Southeast Asian instruments behind, creating an immersive spatial dialogue between the two musical worlds. My compositional poetics clearly emerge in the relationship between music and image, where sounds become part of the visual movement itself, treated as “images within the scene.” The most intense moments are interpreted by the beautiful voice of Lavinia Mancusi. The film received numerous awards, including the Special Mention at the 34th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, the Signum Audience Award at the 18th Salina DocFest, three recognitions at the Cambodia Town Film Festival (USA), the official selection by the University of Auckland (CINEDANTE), and the Audience Award at the Rome International Documentary Festival – RIDF. It also achieved great public success (sold out at Cinema Farnese, Rome), attended by the director and several renowned figures, including Maestro Marco Bellocchio.

Questo brano è tratto dalla colonna sonora del film “VAKHIM” di Francesca Pirani, proiettato il 6 settembre 2024 alle Notti Veneziane – Giornate degli Autori (81ª Mostra del Cinema di Venezia). Ho composto e prodotto la colonna sonora originale basandomi sulla ricerca di sonorità che potessero rappresentare ed evocare le memorie profonde dei primi anni di vita del protagonista, vissuti in Cambogia, mettendo in relazione quel mondo con quello occidentale nel quale è stato proiettato dopo l’adozione, avvenuta a quattro anni da parte della stessa regista. La scrittura musicale si muove tra linee tematiche legate alle realtà emotive dei personaggi e suoni indeterminati, con un accurato lavoro spaziale realizzato in Dolby Surround 5.1. Questo brano, con orchestra sinfonica e strumenti etnici cambogiani, rappresenta una sintesi sonora dell’intera colonna sonora: gli strumenti occidentali sono disposti in primo piano e quelli del Sud-Est Asiatico sullo sfondo, creando un dialogo immersivo tra i due mondi musicali. Nel rapporto musica-immagine emerge la mia poetica compositiva, dove i suoni diventano parte integrante del movimento scenico, trattati anch’essi come immagini nella scena. I momenti più intensi sono interpretati dalla splendida voce di Lavinia Mancusi. Il film ha ricevuto la Menzione Speciale al 34° Festival Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina, il Premio Signum del Pubblico al Salina DocFest, tre riconoscimenti al Cambodia Town Film Festival (USA), la selezione ufficiale alla University of Auckland (CINEDANTE) e il Premio del Pubblico al Rome International Documentary Festival – RIDF. Grande successo di pubblico (sold out al Cinema Farnese di Roma), alla presenza della regista e di importanti esponenti del cinema, tra cui il Maestro Marco Bellocchio.

TEMA DI VAKHIM (Main Theme from the original motion picture "Vakhim")

Piano playing a melancholic melody and chord progression, accompanied by a string section providing sustained pads and counter-melodies.

Apophis (Instrumental draft)

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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.

Trees and Tangents (Naviarhaiku489)

Raymond Stull