Recorded live while playing around with a granular app

Deadline: 12th January 2022

All submissions to Haiku 418:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/01/05/naviarhaiku418-a-machine-gun/

To participate:
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”
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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 #418: A machine gun, / the low moon, / round and resounding.

Live studio jam, Performed by
Flute (Bobby Rangell, Denver USA)
Percussion (Nico Arnicho, Montevideo Uruguay)
Fretless Bass, arpeggiator (Daniel Diaz, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Recorded circa 2007 in Paris, mixed and shared for the first time Wednesday 5th January 2022 for this haiku:

A machine gun,
the low moon,
round and resounding.

Poem by Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) 
Photo by DD (Malaga, Spain, December 2021)

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round and resounding (naviarhaiku418)

A machine gun,
the low moon,
round and resounding.

haiku by Saitō Sanki https://harvardreview.org/content/three-demons-haiku-by-sanki/

picture by Rosie Sun https://unsplash.com/@rosiesun

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

unfold hearings

halF resoundinG [naviarhaiku418]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
418 week haiku
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/01/05/naviarhaiku418-a-machine-gun/

today probably more sound design than song :-)

2022-01-06

A Machine Gun  (Naviarhaiku 418 )

Electronic sequence, sounds created in Pure Data.

Resounding (naviarhaiku418)

For Haiku 418 from Naviar Records I was blocked by the "machine gun"... As I didn't want to use any type of gun sounds an idea came to reverse the situation: I finally recorded some machine gun like firing, but those sounds act as signal for the side-chain that makes the tracks duck in volume. So instead of being loud they create gaps of silence, as if they were distant memories from the ear that are blocked by a traumatized brain.

Duuster - Haiku 418

naviarhaiku418 – A machine gun

A machine gun,
the low moon,
round and resounding.

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.

This haiku is included in The Kobe Hotel, a collection that depicts the author’s wartime experiences in Kobe, the struggles of ordinary people to endure war, defeat and occupation.

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

Deadline: 12th January 2021

haiku by Saitō Sanki https://harvardreview.org/content/three-demons-haiku-by-sanki/

picture by Rosie Sun https://unsplash.com/@rosiesun

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Machine Gun (naviarhaiku418)

Found an old Morphagene sample reel with snippets by Varese, Roads and Stockhausen then performed cutting them up in real time via the Buchla Music Easel.

Cut Ups

eclindesor

I'm the queen in snow-white 
Want to be the best world wide
Think of new strategy every night 
I'm the sister in Cinderella 
For the crown I don't have fear
I give my blood and tear
Because I must be the winner

Do you know The girls' life ends at twenty three
You must sell yourself like a Christmas tree
But no one wants a wife who's only pretty
At least you need an ivy league degree

Piano, chess, ballet, French, calligraphy  
Work 20 hours you still have 4 to sleep 
Remember to calculate your calories 
50 kilo is the number you can't exceed 

Good, better, best... It's still not perfect.
“Have you heard of the training for dating?”

Patriarchy made a demon like me
Maiden, milf, bunny girl, nothing I can't be
Capitalism made a demon like me
I fueled for the rat race with infinite energy

A demon like me
Who makes you scream
A demon like me
Let you cry and bleed
A demon like me
Catches you in your dream
You can once escape
But you'll come back to me
A demon like me
Whom you always seek
A demon like me
In your heart so deep
A demon like me
Teach you to be free
Only in the pain
You know what is joy

Good, better, best... It's still not perfect.
“You need to practice the makeup, and make it look like you don’t use it. Cause you need to be seducing, but you can’t be so apparent.”

Patriarchy made a demon like me
Cook, nurse, professor, nothing I can't be
Capitalism made a demon like me
I'm a hybrid of beast and machinery

Demon Like Me

一  | Album 'ODAYAKA'

Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus
The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video.

In 2002, the media artist Cory Arcangel created a work of art titled Super Mario Clouds, which removed everything from the 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game except the blue sky and passing clouds. This means that Arcangel’s video was silent, because also excluded was Koji Kondo’s classic score.

The asignment is to record a very sedate 8-bit music that does feel aligned with Super Mario Clouds. So while listening please watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmAD0TwGcQ).

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Mario Clouds [disquiet0704]

Lyrics by me

Be my mindless maiden
Your name will be newly given
Be my mindless maiden
You're just dopamine-driven

Be my mindless maiden
The entrance to the abyss is open
Be my mindless maiden
Your future has been written

O Mindless, mindless, mindless maiden
From your conscience, you just need to be absent
O Mindless, mindless, mindless maiden
Let my voice guide you to the heaven

Mindless Maiden

Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start
The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

For this assignment i read the first page of The Chukchi Bible by Yuri Rytkheu.

The Chukchi Bible is a collection of the myths and tales of Yuri Rytkheu’s own shaman father. The stories compose both a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the shores of the Bering Sea, and a beautiful cautionary tale.

This book is a beautiful example for the guiding power of magic places, even when visited via reading.

In the track a field recording of rain in the night is added, recorded in Nunligran/Chukotka and published in the Public Domain on aporee.org: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=61870&m=satellite


More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/0705/.

Chukotka [disquiet0705]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 600:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
And a big thumbs up to Marco for all the time and efforts spent into this wonderful project, 600 weeks is quite a time... Glad to be part of it!

Photo by zenbytes (Casper, Wyoming, USA, 2024)

wind among the pines - Naviarhaiku600

From the new album Moments of Vertical
Buy: https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/moments-of-vertical
Stream: https://share.amuse.io/OQC1u9QAs9v7

Tales from the Garden

Jabuticabe::::
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Photo by Ivons

Jabuticabe & Senglar - Poles

I am Elias Epp, musician and software engineer from Ulm (Germany). Seramind is my music project.

Curator of the Audioscenarion and Testexperiment podcasts.

Most of my stuff is ambient, techno or dub related music.

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

Machine Gun (naviarhaiku418)

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