All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- 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 (naviarhaiku382)”

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 X, 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

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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

Naviar Records store: www.naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

Naviar Records Membership (access to full discography, creative meetups, workshops, and more): https://www.naviarrecords.com/membership-and-services/#membership

haiku #600: thinking of us / the sound of wind / among the pines

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal
 

Submission deadline: 9th July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Thinking Of Us (NaviarHaiku600)

VERY exciting to be contributing to the 600th Naviar Haiku Challenge!! 🎉❤️

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Andrea-Cecon/author/B00955O0CA?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

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

more halF unususaL

halF uS [naviarhaiku600]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
600
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

2025-07-03

thinking of us ( Naviarhaiku 600 )

Sitting in the tree tops, swaying with the wind, thinking with the trees. Inspired by the Naviar Haiku 600! by Andrea Cecon  "thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines"  Naviar Haiku https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Thinking Among the Trees(NaviarHaiku600)

Created for the 600th Naviar Haiku Challenge

nostos

3Jul25
My naviarhaiku600 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/
:D

thinking of us [naviarhaiku600]

Inspired by the following haiku written by Andrea Cecon, a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…
thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines


Picture by Ali Kazal 
@naviar-records

Shapeless Shadows

Shapeless shadows (NaviarHaiku600)

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

Hybrid orchestral soundscape, a simple E major chord progression played on both electronic and acoustic instruments:  4 synthesisers alternating with 4 bowed basses, 2 cellos and a violin.

For this haiku:


pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

by: Yatsuka Ishihara

Created by DD in Paris  July 9, 2025
Photo by Alex.

naviarhaiku601  by @naviar-records

Pulling Light (naviarhaiku601 )

By the Light Of The Milky-Way (NaviarHaiku 601)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
605
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku605-just-inside-the-fence/

2025-08-06

wild violets ( Naviarhaiku 605 )

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

2025-08-21

Winter waterfall (Naviarhaiku 607)

“staring into the endless night before my consciousness fades away” by kyubii! is OUT NOW on Unbeyond Anthologies! 
Buy / Stream ↣ https://hypeddit.com/056staringintotheendlessnight

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Unbeyond Anthologies are pleased to present a gorgeous ambient EP from a newcomer to the label: kyubii!’s “staring into the endless night before my consciousness fades away”.

Melancholic and serene, this four-track collection is delicately arranged and rich with detail. The dreamlike atmosphere of the release, marked by soaring synth pads and gentle piano, will certainly lull the listener into blissful introspection.

“Nights have always been... something special to me. It's a time where I feel vulnerable, so open to my own emotions. This project of mine was created to try to capture this coldness, yet making it feel comfortable, nostalgic even.” said kyubii!. “I've always been somewhat of a melodic person, but with this, I've really wanted to bring out raw feelings, something that I personally resonate with as I drift to sleep.”

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Follow kyubii!:
https://kaybyubii.carrd.co/ 

Follow Unbeyond Anthologies:
https://unbeyondanthologies.carrd.co/

staring into the endless night before my consciousness fades away

and yet it’s still you

kyubii! - and yet it’s still you

Hello. I am Aethery Fields.

There are moments when time seems to stand still.

Instants when fog settles over a landscape and contours blur. "hello." is such a moment, captured in sound, preserved like a fading Polaroid whose edges are already dissolving.
After a distant time in the shadows, sailing the cinematic seas of Dark Ambient and Soundscape with my moniker "Logic Moon", I felt the need to give my brighter side more space. **Aethery Fields** was born, not as an escape, but as a complement. A place where light penetrates through the mist, where silence is not empty but filled with fleeting impressions.

"hello." is the counterpoint to my otherwise busy self. It is a still frame in a fog-veiled landscape, blurred, hazy, yet all the more haunting for it. Sometimes they are mere silhouettes drifting through the sound, vague intimations of melodies that emerge from the mist and vanish again. Then suddenly simple lines crystallize, clear and immediate, before fading back into the haze.

Process
Every track on this album emerged spontaneously, born from the moment itself. I sat down, pressed record, and let the things flow. No overthinking, no perfectionism, only the urge to capture the here and now before it slips away. What you hear is what happened in that instant. A texture, a melody appearing out of nowhere. Minimalist in form, yet rich in emotion. This music reveals my quiet side, that self which strives for deceleration, which dwells in the now and transforms impressions into sound as naturally as breathing. Each piece is an impulse made audible, a fleeting thought given form. It is a pause between breaths, a lingering in the moment before it dissolves.

Like a Polaroid capturing the essence of a vanishing moment, the diffuse light, the blurred atmosphere, the unrepeatable accident, "hello." reflects instants that can never be fully grasped or recreated. Still lifes in stillness, which despite their calm are permeated by countless sounds and impressions. It is the beauty of the imperfect, the transient, the barely visible, the unplanned.
"hello." is an invitation to pause, to lose yourself in the fog and to discover the essential in the blurred, to feel the aliveness within the stillness.

hello.

Song1

Feel it 2

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

thinking of us [naviarhaiku600]

Stan Magendanz

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