Inspired by Naviar Haiku 604:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (France, 2018)

ripple like waves - Naviarhaiku604

7Aug25

https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/791121672328642560/naviarhaiku605-just-inside-the-fence

😊

just inside the fence [naviarhaiku605]

Created on iPad, mixed and mastered with Cubase 14 and Ozone 11

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 605:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku605-just-inside-the-fence/

Photo by zenbytes (Sibratsgfäll, Austria, 2019)


prohibited grounds - Naviarhaiku605

14Aug25

https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/791763921762729984/naviarhaiku606-slightly-faint

😊

the milky way [naviarhaiku606]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 606:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku606-slightly-faint/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (La Palma, Spain, 2015)


faint yet clear - Naviarhaiku606

Made for Naviar Records' 607th Haiku Challenge

Untouched by the Sun [naviarhaiku 607]

22Aug25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/792400312298323968/naviarhaiku607-winter-waterfall
😊

Winter waterfall [naviarhaiku607]



Inspired by Naviar Haiku 607:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku607-winter-waterfall/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Sibratsgfäll, Austria, 2021)


a rock untouched - Naviarhaiku607

29Aug25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793036834183725056/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses
😊

not yet bent in any direction [naviarhaiku608]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 608:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2017)

young grasses - Naviarhaiku608

4Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793657063087767552/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark
😊

The sadness of things [naviarhaiku609]

Made for Naviar Records' 609th Haiku Challenge

A torch in the dark [naviar609]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 609:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Bretagne, France, 2020)

revealing torch - Naviarhaiku609

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

SO happy that Naviar Records has chosen to run with one of my own haiku for this week's challenge! As you can no doubt hear ... I still very much ❤️ Sumu!! All the Madrona Labs plugins are such inspiring sonic creative genius! 👏🙏

halF unusuaL is "an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity."

You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud and Youtube, and check out his website to find out more about his publications and merchandise.

Haiku by Darren Bourne

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

more halF unusuaL

halF droppeD [naviarhaiku610]

12Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/794312144451682304/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass
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the fall [naviarkaiku610]

You can see an experimental video made to accompany this track at https://youtu.be/kjjs4dMyaec ... Enjoy! 🤗❤️

half-asleep eyes
open to a dreamlike world
of blossoms

Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Notes from the Penguin Book of Haiku:

nebuki me o / hirakeba hana no / ukiyo kana

Ukiyo, the floating world of pleasure, specifically referred to the pleasure quarters with its various beautiful women (hana, literally ‘blossoms’) as well as to popular theatre and street spectacles.

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF dreamlikE [naviarhaiku611]

18Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/794931467129094144/naviarhaiku611-half-asleep-eyes
😊

half-asleep eyes [naviarhaiku611]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 611:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku611-half-asleep-eyes/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Portugal, 2013)

half-asleep eyes - Naviarhaiku611

Enjoy the accompanying video at https://youtu.be/3GmrnYzEG-E ...

faring over the lake
drawing the light
an autumn butterfly

Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

Haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara

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

halF butterflY [naviarhaiku612]

Traveller in sound and space.  Enjoying and creating ambient, drone and experimental music.

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

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.

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

New tracks tagged #Naviar