Built out of a short extract from an improvisation between @stellato-strings (violin) and myself (piano) there's some Audacity pitch change going on and I'm keeping this week's @naviar-records Haiku Challenge as sparse as possible, with organ stop shifting and very low growling Garageband string ensemble. The picture is from a sunset this week in Margate.

without a voice
the heron would disappear –
morning snow

Widely regarded as one of the most important female haiku poets, Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet of the Edo period. She started writing haiku early in her childhood and was strongly influenced by Basho’s poetry (probably because her teachers were his students).

The fundamentals in Basho’s poetry include: sabi (detached loneliness), wabi (poverty of spirit), hosomi (slenderness, sparseness), shiori (tenderness), sokkyo (spontaneity), makoto (sincerity), fuga (elegance), karumi (simplicity), kyakkan byosha (objectivity), and shiZen to hitotsu ni naru (oneness with nature). Fukuda Chiyo-ni was particularly interested in the latter, since most of her poetry deals with the realm of nature.

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

Deadline: 26th October 2022

haiku by Fukuda Chiyo-ni http://haikukan.city.hakusan.ishikawa.jp/english/about/index.html

morning snow (naviarhaiku459)

With planning now for the @naviar-records event on 7th December at Cafe Oto, I'm thinking now as pieces as fragments that will make for materials for live mixing and performance on the night.

This is a tiny fragment from the improvisation I did the other week with @stellato-strings on the violin, me on the piano, and through panning, repetition and added effects normally used for vocals I'm trying to create a spider's web that is a series of bell-like connections.

This is in response to HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE Naviarhaiku 460:

Frozen dew gleams
Spiderwebs made stark
The cusp of winter

I came across David Pattison’s haiku on Twitter. David started writing poetry just a little over a year ago and uses it to share and express his love for nature.

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

Deadline: 2nd November 2022

haiku by David Pattison https://twitter.com/DavidPa71415858

The pic is by me, yesterday morning out on a walk with a dear friend who is just back from Sweden.

spiderwebs (naviarhaiku460)

A layered track to capture the bleakness of winter.

Music by - Stu King
Jazz Master and Gretsch Guitars
Echo
Reverb
Analog Delay
Ebow

Winter Web

Winter Web (naviarhaiku460)

Sound fantasy on:

Frozen dew gleams
Spiderwebs made stark
The cusp of winter

Naviarrecords, Haiku challenge 460
Voice Sample Herta Müller

Wind ist kälter als Schnee_Naviarhaiku460

naviarhaiku461:
the sound of rain
on a cold spring morn
the town is quiet

haiku: Craig Lincoln https://twitter.com/Clpoetry
image: Vincent Camacho https://unsplash.com/@joyousdevil
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Rain on a Cold Spring Morn [NaviarHaiku461]

Ilosio

Sound Fantasy on

Open road ...
the distant clouds
stepping stones

Naviarrecords Haiku Challenge 466

Open Road

Open Road_Naviarhaiku466

Anthem for the Wilderchild in all of us.

Music - Stu King
Jazzmaster Electric
Orangewood Acoustic
Digital Delay
Analog Delay
Reverb

Field Recording - Domar1979

Wilderchild

Wilderchild (naviarhaiku467)

Golden Road

Fantasy in three Movements for small Orchestra

This suite of pieces holds to the fast-slow-fast traditional pattern of the Classical period .

The three movements are: 

Allegro Vivace in 4/4

Slowly in 5/4

Andante Con Moto in 6/8

The indivual movements will be published separately to Soundcloud.

I used sound cloud mastering service on the three movements separately 

as the duration of the suite is eleven minutes, longer than the

ten minute upper limit for Soundcloud mastering.

Tripartite Fantasy

Winter Wonder Remastered

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.

Winter Web (naviarhaiku460)

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