Name: Before the Deluge(naviarhaiku518) by rikardfvs in haiku #518: dark clouds menacing – / I doubt we shall reach shelter / before the deluge
Duration: 5 min 40 s
Description: YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMDKKXyA9_0

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haiku #518: dark clouds menacing – / I doubt we shall reach shelter / before the deluge

I tried out various online tools to convert different field recordings into text and ended up using https://editor.flixier.com/transcribe/ - because it was the only one that worked on any of the recordings. I also tried audio > video > YouTube but YouTube failed to caption the videos.

I used an echoey recording of a recent visit to a cathedral which translated into nonsensical text (in German) but unfortunately no descriptions like [noise] or the like. I did not find a way to read a score or musical instruction into the text so I used text to speech - including the time stamps to translate the text back into audio. Because it is a rainy day, I turned this into a house track, sort of.

More on this 608th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Nature-to-Text (The Assignment: Using a speech-to-text tool, turn a field recording into instructions for a composition), at: https://disquiet.com/0608/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0608-nature-to-text/

Disquiet0608 - Lustig Piper

visuals @ https://youtu.be/QIutdIBAsPo

now it reveals its hidden side
and now the other – thus it falls,
an autumn leaf

Haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://allpoetry.com/Taigu-Ryokan

Picture by Ormid Armin https://unsplash.com/photos/QMlMWL4H9so

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF revealeD [naviarhaiku506]

At SPILL Festival's Think Tank in February, 14 of us co-created an audio visual collage using the letters and poetry of Edward Fitzgerald (audio version here: https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/something-of-a-queer-nature). This opened Jan Pulsford's Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival 2023 (https://woodbridgeambientmusicfestival.net/) on Friday.

Never one to let any scraps of sound materials go to waste (you should see the hoarding on my Google Drive), I took tiny fragments of sounds we recorded at SPILL (including the recorder playing by @kate-gallaher) and made this piece this week. I'm really rather pleased with it. Clever little thing, Logic Pro X. I call mine Larry: what do you call yours?

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge. Such an encouraging and kind community that Marcus puts a great deal of time and love into, and it really shows. I'm so grateful to have these weekly email prompts, listening back I'm so pleased with what I've taught myself and learned from others.

Here's the information about this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

summer sky…
rippling the silence
a watersnake

Janice Doppler spent her writing energy on grant proposals and curriculum development during her career as a teacher and school administrator. Retiring enabled her to develop her creative self—carving realistic birds from wood and nature journaling.

Her heart was captured by haiku during a senior-center workshop that she attended on a whim. Her haiku and haibun have been widely published. She placed second in the Porad Haiku Award in 2021 and 2022. Her collection, Stardust, is available on Amazon. You can read samples of her work at The Poet Hub.

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

Deadline: 27th September 2023

Haiku by Janice Doppler https://poets.drifting-sands-haibun.org/first-name-starts-with-j/janice-doppler/

Picture by Jackson Hendry https://unsplash.com/photos/kKpTHqM2K-c

(In fitting with how I made this piece, I've taken fragments from the picture and haiku for the image and title.)

Summ Rippling (naviarhaiku507)

Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede
The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

I love reading very old news articles and noticing the ways life is still the same and the ways is very different. I wanted to find something from 100 years before I was born in The San Francisco Chronicle. My actual birthday (August 20th) was missing pages in the archive where I looked (newspapers.com) so I went with August 27th, 1884. I enjoyed the style of writing and storytelling about a dog that was addicted to opium. It carries echos of the present day anxiety about fentanyl but in other ways has no moral or backstory - just a snapshot of life.

To create this sonically, I used the "Matthew" voice from TTSmp3.com and played a bit with inserting commands for spacing or emphasis on particular words (always a challenge with text to speech). It worked OK though I think this piece might have been good with someone just reading it.

After creating an initial draft of the piece where I faded out the voice to let the music take over, I thought it would be more fun to disappear him into something that sounds more musical. So I auto-tuned the voice to try to keep it to F# and G. Then I exported the voice file and uploaded it into Holly+, Holly Herndon's AI tool for converting any audio file into her voice. This created something staticky and singsongy. I crossfaded this with the original voice and then chopped up some bits that worked rhythmically for the end.

Just because, I included a little sound design early on using a "Victorian street" simulation by Timbre on Freesound.org. I then processed it and played it backwards, as is *required* of any *real* sound art...

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

fiend (disquiet0618)

Sinny: shaker, tambourine, cowbell, samboga blocks, rattle, hamper, iKaossilator and SpaceCraft apps, synth and xylophone programming

InspectorJ: rooster sample

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

Pumpkin Poaching (disquiet0618)

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by
Shubham Dasgupta’s poem “in dark autumn nights / dew and the new bamboo shoots / reaching out to moon”

Tracklist:

jamesbrynildsen - Bamboo Moon
Stan Magendanz - reaching out to moon
zenbytes - night dew and bamboo shoots
noble-earths – Bamboo
33per - (new bamboo shoots) Rarotonga
Raymond Stull - Touch the Moonlight

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/18/naviarhaiku511-in-dark-autumn-nights/

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 #291 – in dark autumn nights – Wednesday 1st November 2023

dark clouds menacing
– I doubt we shall reach shelter
before the deluge

Haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley

The basis of this track is a recording of a thunderstorm made a couple of months back. The rhythm tracks are generated solely from that storm recording and you can hear the original sounds of thunder and rain in the background, throughout the track. Enjoy! 

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

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Musique concrète, a mix of recorded & electronic sounds.

Menace Approaching (naviarhaiku518)

Haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley

Picture by Malte Schmidt https://unsplash.com/photos/body-of-water-between-island-at-cloudy-sky-CuanMni4ScE

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Doubt before the deluge (naviarhaiku518)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
518
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2023-12-08

Dark Clouds Menacing  ( Naviarhaku 518 )

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMDKKXyA9_0

Before the Deluge(naviarhaiku518)

Raymond's haiku inspired me to dust off my electric upright bass for this minimalist improvisation. Recorded and mixed in Reaper, with Guitar Rig 6. Mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Dark Clouds (naviarhailu518)

dark clouds menacing
– I doubt we shall reach shelter
before the deluge

~~Raymond Cobley 

is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images.

I Doubt We Shall Reach Shelter (navku518)

basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut
 

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.

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

Deadline: 3rd January 2023

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

picture by Jonathan M. Hethey https://unsplash.com/photos/photography-of-grass-with-sun-light-ka9D9DiEVvw

Basking (NaviarHaiku521)

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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

https://linktr.ee/rikardfvs

Twitter and Bluesky: @rikardfvs

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sadbient

TikTok: @rikard157

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/rikardfvs/

Bandcamp: https://rikardfvs.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://spotify.link/EyeMydE7Oyb

Earlier project / Colloboration:
https://hetdonkseoog.bandcamp.com/album/dp016-hamnskiftet
https://soundcloud.com/great-learning-orchestra
https://soundcloud.com/twooegg
https://myspace.com/rikardd/

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