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- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
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- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
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haiku #588: The past, immutable - / an icicle stabs / directly downward

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward
 

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.
 
haiku by Saitō Sanki: https://www.littermagazine.com/2023/07/review-sanki-saito-selected-haiku.html

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF immutablE [naviarhaiku588]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
588
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable/

2025-04-10

The past, immutable  (Naviarhaiku 588 )

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

by: Saitō Sanki

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.

SONG 84 - Naviarhaiku588

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

The Immutable Past (naviarhaiku588)

11Apr25
My naviarhaiku588 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/780349856376061952/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable

The past, immutable [naviarhaiku588]

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable/

an icicle stabs-naviarhaiku588

Nur Atmen

More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/

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This track was produced using four Csound instruments that provided a variety of timbres. The structural framework was built using a chaotic algorithm written in Python which generated the notes for the score.

nos unideal - disquiet0718

ABSURD PROCESS

TRAMPELFÂD
Laboratory for Contemporary Electronic Experimental Music

Rec.name : " D 3V - NAM -Neuroplastic Aleatoric Music "
credit : digitakt 1

date : 20-10-2025
Video links :
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xMy0lTEsP8Q
https://trampelfad.bandcamp.com/track/institute-benjamenta-live-recording

Fragments 7

Verde

24 7 30

gobb

First there was a common funky beat for 2 minutes or so. Then there was a bass played during those 2 minutes in a complete improv mood. Then a nylon guitar came breaking time. Then a steel guitar came bending time. Then some djembes, shakers and seeds came defying the beat and eliminating it.

In the spirit of mixing traditional instruments with free jazz approach, a simple though "we are lost in time" emerges.



Lost in time

Surfing Home

I LOVE creaky floorboards. ❤️ Always have. They’re the little confessions the world doesn’t know it’s making. How could it?

This particular set — oh, these sonic beauties — were discovered in a small museum in Lille, France. A place so very quiet you could almost hear the air move somehow. The curator said the building used to be a tailor’s shop. But the neighbours reckoned it had been an intelligence post during the war; the kind of place where secrets secreted themselves into the grain of the wood.

So I waited until closing time. Set up my recorder. And walked. Slowly.

Every step had its own personality — one a whisper, one a sigh, one a shriek like a door … perhaps remembering something it shouldn’t. Somewhere between the third and fourth creak, though, the air changed and tilted weirdly. You know that cold, coiled feeling — when you’re not sure if you’ve just been noticed by someone? But I was alone ... I WAS alone.

I kept recording.

Later, when I played the sounds back, there it was: a super faint shuffle beneath and between the creaks. A pause. Then two extra footsteps … that weren’t mine. Perfect rhythm. Perfect distance. Like a partner in a dance waiting years for the next cue, which had now arrived, years later.

So I built the track around that. A haunted duet between spy and spectre, each trying to decode the other’s silence.

Enjoy … if you dare. 🎃😈

More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.

halF spooK [disquiet0722]

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - piano (and keyboards) sketch

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

LOUNGE NOISE - SYPHILITIC EXOTICA - RAW AMBIENT - SADBIENT

 ### Makes the show "Nya Ljud" on Camp Radio: http://arkivfeber.se/nyaljud.html

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https://soundcloud.com/twooegg
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