a long experimentation session between different live recordings, post-process samples and piano improvisation held last summer.

Anti_matter

Anti_Matter

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Haiku by Miura Chora: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7303145.Ueda_Akinari

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

more halF unusuaL

halF siftinG [naviarhaiku571]

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku571-stillness/

YT Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/h8tnEwxBL4s?feature=share

sifting down together-naviarhaiku571

14Dec24
My naviarhaiku571 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/769572391878803456/naviarhaiku571-stillness
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the sound of petals [naviarhaiku571]

A generative meditative piece inspired by the following haiku:

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

(from: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku571-stillness/)

The Vulgarization of Haiku [ naviarhaiku571 ]

Over an existing drone I had made from the “quiet” ambience of my house I added three slightly different versions of a stretched treatment of an electronic version of the opening bars of the theme from Star Trek: Voyager.

Also added was a long stretch made from the tonic chord of the theme, pitched an octave down, for a bit of gravitas.

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The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone.

Step 1: We did a drone project last week and it went well, so let’s do another one. You needn’t have done last week’s to do this week, as is always the case. Again, you may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.

Step 2: Think about what makes a melody, even a very slow and simple melody, different from a drone.

Step 3: Now record a piece of music that is, objectively, a deep drone, but somehow within it, somewhere well below the surface, include a slow-moving melody.

More at https://disquiet.com/0676/


More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

Subvoyager [disquiet0676]

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project, which was to create a drone with a melody well hidden in the soundscape. I composed a drone - as in last week's track - based on sounds I created for another endeavour, and hid a slow, soothing melody within the soundscape.  

More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody - The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone - at https://disquiet.com/0676/

The Melody Within (Disquiet0676)

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 571.
Sur un haïku de Miura Chora (1729-1780):
stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Petal's Stilness

The opening hit represents the strong trunk of the tree from which the wind strips the tree of its leaves and flowers where the high notes of the piano thru a delay represent the sound of the petals sifting down together. There's a drastic 'ping' that occurs that's meant to symbolize a pebble thrown into a still pool of water and how the ripples bounce back and forth and mix together but ultimately calm is once again restored.

Stillness (naviarhaiku571)

Created ain response to:

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

Naviar Haiku challenge 571, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

I went back to VCV Rack for the virtual modular for this one as I could achieve what I wanted more directly using fewer modules. The patch contains some sequenced elements as well but when I came to perform and record I didn't feel I needed them. 

Following suggestions from people more experienced than me I've done a little bit of remastering and updated this track.

The Sound of Petals - (Naviarhaiku - 571)

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/omCX1RpsZok

Glimpse 1459 (Sep 30 2025)

LOUNGE NOISE - SYPHILITIC EXOTICA - RAW AMBIENT - SADBIENT

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