This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
607
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku607-winter-waterfall/

2025-08-21

Winter waterfall (Naviarhaiku 607)

22Aug25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/792400312298323968/naviarhaiku607-winter-waterfall
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Winter waterfall [naviarhaiku607]

Revealing the dark torch (naviarhaiku609)

迷い石（glacial erratic）

誰が置いたか迷い石
どこから来たかわからない
白い砂地に影おいて
いつも黙ってそこにいる
誰が置いたか迷い石
自分が誰かわからない
白い膚に走る傷
いつか黙っていなくなる

Who placed this boulder here?
A boulder whose origin is unknown.
It casts a black shadow upon the white sand.
The boulder always stands there silently.
Its white surface bears countless scratches.
Will the boulder vanish one day?


迷い石（glacial erratic）

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

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

fisherman's sadness_naviarhaiku609

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)

Various authors with some real-time processing captured from Radio Aporee.
It is interesting to discover how inspiring the single nuances of concrete sounds can be, with rhythms, melodic/harmonic cells, textures and more.
This material certainly lends itself very well to further processing for the creation of something else.
Radio Aporee is an excellent source of inspiration.

work in progress

The hidden beauty of concrete sounds v.1

Little song for Yatsuka Ishihara haiku:

"Faring over the lake
drawing the light
an autumn butterfly"

Faring over the light (naviarhaiku612)

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The Phantom of Self is a ten-track reflection on dream, identity, and dissolution.
Includes Mirror in a Doorless Room — a new addition — and Implosion, previously shared only as a standalone SoundCloud experiment.
An inward journey where sound becomes memory, and memory turns to light.

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