Name: Three (Ochre extras) by Robert Sharl
Duration: 3 min 16 s
Description: The third of a planned series of extensions to my 2025 album OCHRE, recorded August and September 2025 in Birmingham. These brief, self-contained sketches are intended to sit alongside the original album, and to echo its themes and moods.

Korg monotron with loop pedal and tape delay (in that order). Added some strings and brass afterwards.

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

insect tremolo-naviarhaiku603

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
604
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

2025-07-31

In spring sunlight (Naviarhaiku 604)

Session with Uwe, Arno & Justi at Stefan&Chrissies wedding party in Salzwedel 

didge impro

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
608

2025-08-28

young grasses  (Naviarhaiku 608)

The third of a planned series of extensions to my 2025 album OCHRE, recorded August and September 2025 in Birmingham. These brief, self-contained sketches are intended to sit alongside the original album, and to echo its themes and moods.

Three (Ochre extras)

Ambient?   Noise?  Soundscape?   I don't really know any more - categories are no longer fitting what I am hearing and sharing here.   This one spreads across different genres, but still evokes a compelling listening experience.   This one might have to do with the fact that I am just back from Berlin, where, for the first time in decades, I went to bed after the sun came up.

a slow turning

As will as the haiku:

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

this also takes cues from the accompanying image, which together make up Naviar Haiku challenge 609, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A bit of a change for this one, I didn't use anything modular and didn't do everything in a single take.   However with the waves field recording, chord sequence, (technically dyads), played using a custom patch for Dreamsynth from Cherry Audio:  https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth and the footsteps at the beginning in place. 

I then recoded volume automation for those elements allowing me to live mix them with my performance using the Creature From The ID stand alone synth by Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares which was passed through delay and reverb effects, in place as I recorded so I could judge their effect. 

With those main elements done I added the extra footsteps and buoy bell. After listening to the Creature sounds and deciding that in places they more resembled short wave radio interference than whale song I added the Morse Code.

Sounds used.

Waves - My own recording but available from freesound: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Footsteps: walking slow on stones by launemax -- https://freesound.org/s/249921/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Buoy bell:  S29-19 Bell buoy.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/675693/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Morse Code - generated online using Morse Code Translator: https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html

The Sadness Of Things - (naviarhaiku - 609)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 12 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, samples, effects.

This original version of "Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 610: Dropped Glass.

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

by: Darren Bourne

halF unusuaL is "an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity."

You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2bmRZgyBACkW6lnkTWHSw , and check out his website - https://www.halfunusual.com to find out more about his publications and merchandise.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Oct 2020, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

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