

Haiku poetry and music.

Naviar Haiku is a music project in which artists are invited to make new music inspired by a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

Haiku is a traditional and short form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines: it’s about moments of objective experience which lead to deeper considerations about life and nature. The juxtaposition of two images or ideas and the consequent creation of a gap in the imagery gives the reader (or, in this case, the musician) the chance to complete the poem with his/her own interpretation.

This project is about expanding the meaning of a poem beyond its words, and the active role of the reader in haiku poetry, unique in the literary realm, is what inspired this project.

To find out more and participate, visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/


Naviar Haiku Challenge 1 - 50

Naviar Haiku 040

A song inspired by the following haiku by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet Junto)

"There's a lifetime in
between the first and second
click of the door's lock"

Recorded with Ableton Live and written in 90 minutes.

This track is a part of both Disquiet Junto and Naviar Lab.
More info:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquiet0145-theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
http://geirt.com/

Lee Rosevere - There's A Lifetime [Naviarhaiku040/disquiet0145 - Theresalifetimein]

This project kinda mutated from my original intention. I recorded the sound of me unlocking various doors at home and then loaded these into a ESX-1 sampler. I originally intended to produce something sparse and minimal but the urge to tweak got the better of me me and I ended up with something busier and more rhythmic. It's pretty much a one take jam with a little bit of post editing.


A song inspired by the following haiku by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet Junto)

"There's a lifetime in
between the first and second
click of the door's lock"

Recorded with Ableton Live and written in 90 minutes.

This track is a part of both Disquiet Junto and Naviar Lab.
More info:
soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:
disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquie…theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:
geirt.com/

AmbientNaviarhaiku040-There's a Lifetimeambientinstrumentalpianohaikudisquiet0145-theresalifetimein


Locket (Disquiet0145-There's a life time in)(Naviarhaiku040-There's a lifetime)

**Production Notes**

I used the same sample L-A-J did (sagetyrtle - door.wav, www.freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/32938) and treated it with Ambience V0.3. These resulting granular sounds were routed in Abletons Resonators so I finally had some pads from a door. 

Next were some melodic bits and pieces. I heavily used the Rhythmic Robot Sample  Library for these. Added some long and overboardings delays and EQs. That‘s all, folks! 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0145: Locked Haiku**
 
The Assignment: Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse.

This week’s project means participating in another music community’s project. There’s a wonderful group called Naviar Haiku, at naviarlab.tumblr.com, that does weekly projects of music inspired by haiku poems. For the group’s current project, its 40th, I wrote the haiku. It reads:

There’s a lifetime in
 between the first and second 
clicks of the door’s lock

The instructions are simple:
Step 1: Please produce a short piece of music “inpsired by” the above poem.

Step 2: Post the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and to the Naviar Haiku group, which is at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory
Include the first line of the haiku as the title of the track.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow participants.

Bonus Step: Include the sound of a door lock in your piece.

Length: Your finished work should be between one and four minutes long.

(...)

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/  Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:  http://geirt.com/  

Doors Wide Shut [disquiet0145-theresalifetimein]

The fortieth assignment of Naviar Haiku is a poem by writer/editor Marc Weidenbaum. Marc is also the creator of Disquiet Junto, a music project which I guess most of you already know.

Participants are to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and post it on Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory (https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory)

Deadline: 15th October 2014

Haiku by Marc Weidenbaum  http://disquiet.com

Picture by Geir Tønnessen http://geirt.com

Life clicks [naviarhaiku040 - There's a lifetime in]

Notes:
All tracks have "Events" that suggest space in between.

More on this 145th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music inspired by a provided verse″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/10/09/disquiet0145-theresalifetimein/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Geir Tønnessen:

http://geirt.com/

In Between (disquiet0145-theresalifetimein;Naviarhaiku040-There's a lifetime in)

Welcome the forty-ninth assignment of Naviar Haiku.

Participants are to create a track inspired by the assigned haiku poem and post it on Naviar’s Soundcloud group Naviar Laboratory (https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory)

Deadline: 17th December 2014

Haiku poem by Sōseki Natsume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_Sōseki

Picture by Old Mister Crow

https://www.flickr.com/photos/43181051@N00/

White Tree, Black Heart [naviarhaiku049-Over the wintry]

submitted to the Haiku poem by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
"Only in the river
 Darkness flows:
 Fireflies

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?
This is the fiftieth experiment of Naviar Haiku.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Only In The River [Naviarhaiku050 - Only In The River]

Only In The River...Naviarhaiku 050

Fireflies -Naviarhaiku 050

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/12/naviarhaiku-050-only-in-river.html for track discussion.

Darkness Flows [Naviarhaiku050 - only in the river]

 
"I'm not like the avant-garde artist who is always concerned about being new and original," he said. "I have a lot of fun with cliches and archetypal musical elements, no matter where they come from, whether it's Rock-and-Roll or Jazz or a Beethoven String Quartet.
I mean, I'm not afraid to go back and use that material in a way that is somewhat unexpected and new. But my credo is not to be original in everything I do. I like dipping back and taking things we've heard before and putting them in a new set of clothes, or maybe placing them in a new room."
- Interview in the Orange County Register (1989)

Steve Moshier is a composer and performer whose work encompasses theatre, dance, the concert stage, and the internet. From its inception in 1979 until its demise in 1991 he was co-founder, performer, and composer of over 30 compositions for the chamber music ensemble Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra. In 1989 he was named honorary “Artistic Associate – Composer” at the Los Angeles Theater Center under the direction of producers Bill Bushnell and Diane White. Awards for music composition include the L.A. Weekly Theater Critics’ Award, the late Drama-Logue Awards and, having been nominated six times, the Lester Horton Dance Award in 1996. Besides composing award-winning music for productions at the Los Angeles Theater Center, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and the Laguna Playhouse, he has collaborated with performance artists John Fleck, Anna Homler, Keith Antar Mason and the Hittite Empire, as well as, choreographers Karen Goodman, Rudy Perez, Hae Kyung Lee, Winifred R. Harris and, most recently, Heidi Duckler . His work has been performed in international festivals that included the Soho Arts Festival in New York, the Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI) Festival in Fribourg, Switzerland, University of Mainz, Germany, Festspielhaus Hellerau, the Tanzwoche Festival in Dresden, Germany, and the ChangMu International Dance Festival.

“It is rich, always beautiful, intelligent, “humane” , sometimes sweet, sometimes aggressive, expresses a whole lot of emotions but always in a “contained” way in one word it reflects the totality of life.”
- Composer Adam Kondor, the late ‘NetNewMusic’ discussion (2009) “The Music of Steve Moshier”

“Moshier often builds minimalist tension with a melody of about four notes, taking its variations into seductively intense territory”
– Jennifer Fisher, LA Times

“Moshier’s score veered towards melody – Bach-like inventions”
- Victoria Looseleaf, LA Times

“Bold and Intuitive”
- Lewis Segal, LA Times