Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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

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.

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all submissions

haiku #578: one by one / praising and withdrawing inside - / winter moon

link to my youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMdnvC3w-w

Eternal Recurrence

This track was created while dreaming about the wonderful holiday we spent in Cornwall this year and the soothing, fulfilling and uplifting walks we took along the breathtakingly beautiful Coastal Path.

Following the Path

coming to be

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku572-cool-breeze/

YT Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/-_S7gzCx_ZI?si=AghEZtxCUCEtrLG5

on the green paddies-naviarhaiku572

one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon

Marco from Naviar Records couldn't find any information about a haiku poet whose pen name was Senjo. He came across this poem in The Penguin Book of Haiku, but there's no mention of his/her life or other works. However, he liked it so much that he decided to share it anyway and hopes you'll find it inspiring, too.

If anyone else has more information on this mysterious haiku poet, please get in touch with Naviar Records and they'll update the description.

Haiku by Senjo

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

more halF unusuaL

halF withdrawN [naviarhaiku578]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
578
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku578-one-by-one/

one by one (Naviarhaiku 578)

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Praising The Winter Moon (naviarhaiku578)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 578:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku578-one-by-one/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Colorado, USA, 2024)


one by one - Naviarhaiku578

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 31 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Beer bottle, Korg Monotron Delay, grains, emulated springs. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "The Lithosphere Behaves As One" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 578, One By One.

one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon

by: Senjo

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, near the corner of 8th Ave & 44th St, NYC, USA - 31 Jan 2018

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

The Lithosphere Behaves As One (naviarhaiku578)

1Feb25
My naviarhaiku578 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku578-one-by-one/
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winter moon [naviarhaiku578]

The prompt for this track:

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

Naviar Haiku Challenge 581,details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A fair amount of experimentation with ways to represent the haiku, some more successful and obvious than others, the rippling sequence is more inspired by the image than the poem but I kept it in to move the music forward.

Other than the samples, sourced from freesound:

rowing boat from inside.wav by Fenodyrie -- https://freesound.org/s/588307/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
oar.wav by bruno.auzet -- https://freesound.org/s/525030/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Everything was made in virtual modular using a combination of VCV Rack and Voltage Modular.  Running VM as a plugin allowed me to run both in parallel and make a single take multitrack recording. 

Billowing Clouds - (naviarhaiku - 581)

Through the tear_05

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson's most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson's haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito

paperweight [naviarhaiku587]

The Hole You Left by Siegfried Jünger unfolds in slow waves of ambient drone and melodic electronic texture. Ethereal tones drift through empty space, building an elegiac calm that feels both intimate and distant.
Like early Aphex Twin meeting Jónsi & Alex, it balances warmth and melancholy — a quiet meditation on absence and memory.
From the album Absence, this piece sits where emotion meets atmosphere: slow, minimal, and deeply immersive.

For fans of: Aphex Twin, Jónsi & Alex, Ben Frost, Max Richter

Siegfried Jünger – The Hole You Left | Ambient Electronic Drone

mall music

LICHEN SOUP.mp3

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

winter moon [naviarhaiku578]

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