@agnosturaelwar: a beautiful description Ingvar - thanks so much :D

All submissions to Haiku 351:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

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)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #352: the surface of the water / like ornate silk / spring rain

Written for Norbert Rodenkirchen. Early flutes, electronics. To be presented in 8-channel sound at the ZKM Karlsruhe on November 20th, 2025

The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)

16Mar20

Mike Brosco very kindly supplied me with a most excellent base guitar track and gave me permission to experiment with it (thanks Mike).
https://soundcloud.com/brosco
This is experiment #1
:D

Partaker of the five-fold mystery 1 [Brosco / Boson Spin Collab]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
352 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2020-10-01

the Surface Of The Water ( Naviarhaiku 352 )

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Haiku by Ryōkan Taigu
Naviar Haiku 352
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Surface Tension (naviarhaiku352)

Electric guitar
Bamboo flutes
Bowed upright bass
Composed and performed by DD

For this haiku:

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Poem by Ryōkan Taigu
Photo by Trevor Cole


@naviar-records

like silk (naviarhaiku352)

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://artofwonder.org/2014/11/14/forgetting-the-moon-the-poetry-of-ryokan/

picture by Tim Mossholder https://unsplash.com/@timmossholder

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

forel thana

halF ornatE [naviarhaiku352]

2Oct20

My naviarhaiku352 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

:D

Boson Spin - Spring Rain [naviarhaiku352]

Rejected orchestral piece for a music score (publisher's call), quite naive and straight forward.
Piano, upright bass and flute, full orchestra (string, brass and woodwind experimenting with several orchestral libraries).

Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz 2020.

Reworked and remixed on Thursday October 22nd 2020 inspired by this haiku:

wind tunnel . . .
a hummingbird fans
the morning glory

poem by kala ramesh
photo by pradeep ghildiyal uIou


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/10/21/naviarhaiku355-wind-tunnel/

Morning Wind -  naviarhaiku355

1st Section: Bb Major
synthesizers performed by DD

2nd Section: A major/minor. 
Performed by
Flute (Bobby Rangell, Denver USA)
Percussion (Nico Arnicho, Montevideo Uruguay)
Fretless Bass, bowed basses drone (Daniel Diaz, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Recorded circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 13th 2020.

Photo by Louis Maniquet 

For this challenge:
Step 1: Think about how a gradient functions, as one thing transitions into another.

Step 2: Make a short piece of music that aims to explore the idea of a gradient in sound.

As mentioned on a previous junto, lately, when I have time, I’m recycling old masters I got back this summer from a publisher deal, I have dozens of 10 or 15 years old tracks to re-listen, re-work and release or use at will.
For this junto I decided to do a gradient between two old tracks: one completely electronic (synths and treatments) and one acoustic (live in the studio performance with actual musicians and instruments)
It starts with the electro-drone song , and instead of just crossfading volumes between tracks I decided to make my own interpretation of gradient: the second song’s tracks start unmuting one by one, starting with the flute and some percussion, then bass, etc, while the first song’s tracks start fading or muting one by one.
To make things interested, the first song is in the key of Bb major, while the second plays around A major and A minor, so the long middle section of this track, where the mutation happens, is in two superimposed keys, providing dissonance and instability instead of the original track’s clear mood.

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…aking-the-gradient/

Two Memories Gradient (disquiet0463)

Marco Lucchi : toy harp
Pete Swinton : synth and electronics

novembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Pete Swinton - toy harp nos. 1,2,5

a rework from Mean Flow of a previous track by Annode and Marco Lucchi

novembre 2020

Annode, Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - Mornings

All the best for 2021!

naviarhaiku365 – things just happen

things just happen
things just happen until
the end of the year

Here’s haiku by the great Matsuo Basho to celebrate the end of the strangest year ever.

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

Deadline: 6th January 2021

haiku by Matsuo Basho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D

picture by Glenn Carstens-Peters https://unsplash.com/@glenncarstenspeters

@soundcloud.com/naviar-records

Letting Go [naviarhaiku365]

Disquiet Junto Project 0473: Placebo Effect
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0472). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Keep this in mind. Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by 68 musicians in all to choose from, 62 as part of this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0472
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I chose the track https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-stereo-disquiet0472-85-bpm by halF unusuaL.

mostlY stereO feat. halF unusuaL (disquiet0473)

Some guitar melody added to ikjoyce's synth track: https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/disquiet0472-jamtimebacking

I chose to play in F harmonic minor instead of natural minor. The sharp 7th sounds a little off sometimes but I like it.

More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Placebo Effect (1 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0473/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Israel Avila, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/5bFGMU

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Disquiet0473 (w/ ikjoyce)

Disquiet Junto Project 0475: Low End (4 of 3)

The Assignment: Remix a trio by doing forensics on its component parts.

Three tracks by Geoffroy (@g_montel), Evan Hartzell (@k-blamo) and Tsa Tse (@tsa-tse) form the basis of this mix.

Jam Time
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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/40425/36
A Larger Set Of Factors (disquiet0472)

geoffroy ... obsessed with musique concrète and playing guitar these days. So this time, ... recorded a short guitar improvisation on brand new Taylor Academy 10 with a Rode NT2000 microphone. Edited in Reaper. No fx.

Placebo Effect
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abalone (k-blamo) played some bongos over it (file:geoffroy_bongos)
https://soundcloud.com/k-blamo/geoffroybongosdisquiet0473


Police Action
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Tsa Tse Geoffroy - bongo - flûtes - disquiet0474

Third part in an asynchronous jam. Just added the flute part. 

https://soundcloud.com/tsa-tse/geoffroy-bongo-flutes-disquiet0474?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0474

file: junto474.mp3

Low End
=======

Extracted single tracks from the above tracks. Mixed in Reason Studio.


More on this 475th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Low End (4 of 3) / The Assignment: Remix a trio by doing forensics on its component parts – at:

https://disquiet.com/0475/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0475-low-end/

Trassel (disquiet0475) by Geoffroy, Evan Hartzell and Tsa Tse

Almost all tracks are free to download and covered by a Creative Commons license. Collaborations / Remixes are welcome so feel free to experiment - no need to get my permission first. Just send me a link to your track when you're done :)

I love listening to & creating ambient, dark ambient, avant-garde & experimental electronica (and the occasional beatscape). I have no professional aspirations  - I just really like creating music / manipulating sounds. It's my way of relaxing after a hard day at the office. All my tracks are produced using monitoring headphones (Audix A140) so I recommend that you listen to my music through headphones. My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I also use Reason every now & then. 


To the artists I follow; I do my best to try to listen to as many of your tracks as possible each night (I listen to each track all the way through - you went through the effort to create a track so you deserve to have it heard in full). If I miss a recent upload of yours, please forgive me...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my little corner of the soundcloud.

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

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