naviarhaiku473 
sudden breeze
every strand of the spider’s web
in tune

Mark Miller is an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight (Ginninderra Press, 2020), a selection of his haiku from over 400 that have been published in international journals and anthologies. His haiku have been featured on buses and trains, on the walls of a public swimming pool, and on art installations in parks and malls. Mark lives in Shoalhaven Heads, Australia.

The spider's web (naviarhaiku473)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
474 week haiku
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/02/01/naviarhaiku474-winter-dawn/

2023-02-02

Winter Dawn  ( Naviarhaiku 474 )

Dark Ambient Soundscape - "A wisely chosen path"

Inspired by Haiku by Yossarian
winter dawn
all forest paths
are mistakes

Music - by Stu King
Gretsch Baritone
Acoustic
Digital Delay
Analog Delay
Phase
Korg Synth
NLDR
Mixed with Cubase

Field Recordings
SilentSeason
Szegvari
Bashrambali
inchadney

Primal Path

Primal Path (naviarhaiku474)

winter dawn
all forest paths
are mistakes

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Haiku by Yossarian https://twitter.com/InFacsimile
Picture by Simona D'Auria https://unsplash.com/@sidphoto
Music : Nukumori Eugene / Nx  https://a-tale-of.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/jinsei_books

Winter Dawn - 雪路  [naviarhaiku474]

This week's haiku, by Michael Dudley, inspired this improvisation, played on a sequence from Dune2 VST synthesizer, plus a flugelhorn sound from Garritan Jazz and Big Band. Recorded and mixed in Reaper; mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Misty Daydream (naviarhaiku484)

Sound Fantasy on:

The rain is over:
South Mountain puffs out
Spring clouds.

(Tr. Sōiku Shigematsu)

Naviar Records Haiku Challenge

The rain is over

The rain is over_Naviarhaiku485

Naviarhaiku 488

in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.

From the Haiku Guy website:

“Perhaps Issa’s dream is symbolic. Like a turtle, he is hunkered inside his shell (hut), waiting out the harsh winter weather. Or, William Nicholas offers a different interpretation, noting that the turtle is linked with good luck and longevity in Japan. In 1812 Issa was still a bachelor; he married two years later. At this point in his life he longed for the good luck of marriage and family life, hence the dream turtle’s teasing laughter?”

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

Deadline: 17th May 2023

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Todd Trapani https://unsplash.com/photos/ymEcUhbjCrI

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 (naviarhaiku488)”

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.

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.

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

winter seclusion

Winter Seclusion (naviarhaiku488)

REMEMBRANCE  OF  THINGS    PAST    5

Part 1: His name is Nicholas. He is schizophrenic and does not take his medicine.  Every day, morning noon and evening he spends an hour in meditation; at war against the darkness and chaos in the world. He leaves the shower running. he wears a metal pyramid upon his head. He is Osiris reincarnated. 
Strangers gather round in the hundreds to verbally abuse him for cheap laughs. Others simply play into his psychosis and feed the fire to their own amusement. Sometimes i get to speak to him. I ask him how he has been. I tell him he looks healthy and i hope he is doing well. I ask what his favorite ice cream flavor is. 
Cookies and cream. 
I tell him his smile lights up the world. I let him know i hope he takes time to take care of himself. I wish better for him but i dont know what that better is. but every now and then I pop in to see him still meditating against darkness while sick hearted strangers ridicule him.

Part 2: A reoccurring dream I have had from adolescent years to this day (but less frequent). At some point in my dream I touch an object or it touches me and I begin to float up into space. I spend the rest of the dream floating through space just thinking about things. recently I thought about Nicholas. 

Machine Talks ⁴

Some vibrations from the radiosphere near a peaceful Calugareni, Romania with  synth drone, acoustic guitar and live processing. More to come from the peaceful times near Calugareni, 2025

Calugareni  1

cathedral 2

Halcyon Hum is a Cinematic and Pop Ambient project by Minneapolis based musician, producer and recordist, Stuart King.

Compositions feature undulating rhythms, walls of sound, ambient melodies, lo-fi textures and field recordings.