Made in response to:

Above my head -
The burning summer sky,
Begging and walking.

Naviar Haiku challenge 567 details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Constructed in virtual modular using Voltage Modular. Manipulated via mapped physical controls and multi-track recorded in a single Live take.  Small amounts if several external effects were added.  

The Burning Sky - (naviarhaiku - 567)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 22/23 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

This piece is a section of a longer generative improvisation. I started on the iPad and finished on PC. I used Audiobus, Ableton Live & native devices, 4Pockets Euclidean, Cem Olcay's Binarythmic & ScaleBud2, Audio Damage Fuzz Plus 3 & Fluid, iZotope Ozone 9, iZotope Exciter & Imager, Bleass Monolit & Delay, Moog Animoog, Igor Vasilev's Altispace, Bram Bos' Rozeta LFO.

This original version of "Now I Just Blue Myself" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 568, Liquid Flowers Hum. A longer, raw iPad take captured on video will be uploaded for my Patreon subscribers later this weekend.  https://patreon.com/blisterpop.

liquid flowers hum
each donning Dali’s moustache -
Narcissus shatters

by: Darren Bourne

Darren Bourne’s surreal poem came to life while he was making AI video experiments based on Salvador Dalí’s Metamorphosis of Narcissus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_of_Narcissus)

"According to expert Jane Reichhold, the *hai* of haiku means “joke, or fun, or unusual”, which is part of the inspiration behind the name halF unusuaL, the experimental electronic music project of Darren Bourne, who also writes haiku and has been published by the British Haiku Society."

You can find Darren’s music here - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2bmRZgyBACkW6lnkTWHSw, and check out his website (https://www.halfunusual.com/) to find out more about his publications and merchandise.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz / DALL-E

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

Now I Just Blue Myself  (naviarhaiku568)

Created in response to:

liquid flowers hum
each donning Dali’s moustache -
Narcissus shatters

Naviar Haiku challenge 568, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

In a departure from my usual method this track was very much assembled as opposed to being a single live take. Although it's been available for a few weeks now, I'd been distracted by new modules for Voltage Modular, so hadn't looked at it but this looked like the perfect place for Nakama, the multi looper with tape degradation effects from Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net Using prepared audio files as input I created two progressive disintegration layers; one for the liquid and one for the shattering. The shattering was reversed so that the audio assembled itself. 

Over these I added a layer of semi random sounds using Creature From The Id also from Giorgio Sancristoforo. Then to tie it all together a added sequenced elements using Voltage Modular. Other than mastering  there are no external effects. 



Samples used, all from Freesound: https://freesound.org
 
Breaking Glass (1).mp3 by mrrap4food -- https://freesound.org/s/619039/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Breaking Glass 1 by Za-Games -- https://freesound.org/s/540450/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Breaking Glass Stereo by GN2013 -- https://freesound.org/s/199906/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

BreakingVase03.wav by kingsrow -- https://freesound.org/s/194683/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Breaking a Vase (remix) by zerolagtime -- https://freesound.org/s/214336/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Glass broken.mp3 by Zeinel -- https://freesound.org/s/483363/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Water Babbling2.m4a by dasoundguy -- https://freesound.org/s/478450/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Water Bubbles and Gurgles by Jamsponge -- https://freesound.org/s/411761/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Liquid Flowers Shatter - (naviarhaiku - 568)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 27 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

This piece is a section of a longer generative improvisation. Using a patch I created earlier in the evening on Arturia Prophet V3 in the VS mode, I started in Bitwig with a few sequenced notes, Nitwig’s own random elements, CodeFN42 RandArp & iZotope’s Neoverb. I chose a small section to replicate across four tracks in Ableton Live and committed some variation with Live’s native devices and some other iZotope plugins. 

This original version of "Ion Exchange & Found" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 569, Resplendent. 

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

by: Kobayashi Issa

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. 

Art/photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Nov 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA
©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Ion Exchange & Found  (naviarhaiku569)

Resplendent 
 the kite soaring up above 
the shanty town

haiku by Haiku by Kobayashi Issa.      https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Kite Resplendent ( NaviarHaiku 569)

Created as a response to:

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

Navair Haiku challenge 569, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

All elements made using Voltage Modular, assembled and manipulated vis mapped physical controls; recorded in one live take.  

Soaring Above - (naviarhaiku - 569)

Created in response to:

washing up the mountain
a colourless rain of autumn
waters unseen

Naviar Haiku challenge 570, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

The majority of this track was made with a single virtual modular patch using Voltage Modular; all controls were mapped to physical controllers and manipulated live in a single take. there were also pre-prepared elements, the unseen waters, which were made from synthetic drip sounds processed through Makama from Giorgio Sancristoforo which also have additional effects applied.

Waters Unseen - (naviarhaiku - 570)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 11 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used 3 instances of VCV Rack running Voxglitch ArpSeq within Ableton Live. In Live, I was running FL Studio with Sytrus loaded, Live's Wavetable and Arturia's Arp 2600. From about 23 minutes, I used this small section towards the end and did a bit of editing.

This original version of "So Glad To See You Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 571, Stillness.  

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.
by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Photography/visual editing by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Nov 2018, Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC, USA

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

So Glad To See You Again (naviarhaiku571)

Created ain response to:

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

Naviar Haiku challenge 571, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

I went back to VCV Rack for the virtual modular for this one as I could achieve what I wanted more directly using fewer modules. The patch contains some sequenced elements as well but when I came to perform and record I didn't feel I needed them. 

The Sound of Petals - (Naviarhaiku - 571)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 18 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used Live, Live native devices, Dillon Bastan’s Rhythmorphic and Arturia’s Mini V & Prophet-5 V. 

This original version of "Polar Decomposition In Rhode Island" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 572, cool breeze.  

cool breeze–
cloud shadows
on the green paddies

by: Morikawa Kyoroku

Morikawa Kyoroku (1656-1715) studied with the great Basho for ten months, who was the one who chose his nickname Kyoroku because he excelled in all six (roku) art forms: calligraphy, painting, spear, sword, horse riding and haiku.

Art photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Apr 2017, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, USA with an Agfa camera using Ilford HP5. 

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

Polar Decomposition In Rhode Island (naviarhaiku572)

I'm primarily a visual artist both 2D and 3D, for the last decade I've operated almost exclusively in the digital 3D realm.   since the late 80s I've made periodic forays into the sonic world, MIDI sequencing, minimalism, musique concrète, found sounds  and improvisation. I am seldom happy with anything and seldom consider a piece finished.

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Freedom from being unknown.
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Explorations and experiments,  in sound, image, and animations . influenced by  interests from Organic Gardening to Neuroscience, Basic Electronics  and Mechanical Invention, Re-purposing Transforming and Recycling of Domestic Devices, Permaculture, Ecology,  Ambient and Noise music. Animated Sound and Image- Experimental,Animated and Visual Music Short films,installations and live audio visual performances with custom built interfaces such as the disco-microwave,midi-vacuum cleaner, and prepared ironing board.see more at 
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