Inspired by:

a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling

Naviar haiku challenge 585, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

The construction of this one is quite minimal, just two elements. Even though the track was performed and recorded in a single take it does have two distinct phases. 

The opening "Splash of colour" section was achieved with a simple VCV Rack virtual modular patch and a lot of experimental modulation, I used some external compression to even it out somewhat. With the modulation dialled back to little or nothing the same patch becomes a backdrop for the "Petals drifting" conclusion. For this I live improvised sparce single notes; very simple VCV patch piped to the Blackhole reverb from Eventide.

A Splash of Colour - (naviarhaiku - 585)

fog dissolves to rain - cool breezes clear the vista, showing cloud-topped hills

haiku by Raymond Cobley.  I took the first line of this haiku as a world of inspiration, actual thunder and rain recordings as well as rainstick instrument, granular treatment in Live, Resynthesis in Metasynth, Production in Logic.

Fog Storm Rain (Naviar Haiku 586 )

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 27 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Fieldscaper/samples, Effects, Synths

This original version of "Spinning On A Breezes" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 586: Fog Dissolves To Rain. 

This contains elements of two of my earlier "raw" releases - 
Raw: "My Fur Again" (02 Sep 2019)
https://youtu.be/a89gDMYrkqg

Raw: "Laugh Picnic" (31 Aug 2019)
https://youtu.be/YEJomQKEUy4 

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

by: Raymond Cobley

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 08 Oct 2019, Manhattan, NYC, USA in the vicinity of 1st Ave and 73rd St. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Spinning On A Breezes (naviarhaiku586)

Created for Naviar Haiku challenge 586: 

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

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

Interpreting the haiku more literally than sensible. I stated with some binaural rain from this sound pack sold in aid of WWF Denmark: www.luftrum.com/free-field-recordings Then fired up VCV Rack to patch together the other elements, split for multitrack recording and additional effects:

Opening of the rain sample (Valhalla Supermassive),
Synth raindrops (PSP Pianoverb),
Re-emergence of "Fog" drone (Audio thing's frostbite 2.

This was not my original plan, but after several failed improvised takes I did things in a different order and got it under ten minutes, drums came in later than expected so used some creative EQ to emphasise their synth origin. 


Cloud Topped Hills - (naviarhaiku - 586)

Prompted by:

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

Naviar haiku challenge 587, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Quite minimal, just two small virtual modular patches and a couple of effect plugins. Opens with some ambience from Voltage Modular plus a small addition of Valhalla Supermassive. Then the paperweights, made in VCV Rack and distorted by Wasted Space from Softube and Richter from Klevgrand. As usual recorded in a single live take, a few physical controls were mapped and used but the patches for this more or less played themselves.


Paperweights - (naviarhaiku - 587)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 19 Apr 2019 & 9 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, Effects

This original version of "Free Carrot Juice" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 588: The Past, Immutable.

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

by Saitō Sanki

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 16 Apr 2019, Upper East Side, Manhattan, NYC, USA. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Free Carrot Juice (naviarhaiku588)

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward
     
haiku by Saitō Sanki

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



ima wa ima (naviarhaiku588)

Created in response to:

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

Naviar haiku challenge 588, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

The starting point for this was an experiment with converting the control voltages from a sequence inside Voltage Modular into MIDI data and passing that to Speldosa the music box plugin from Klevgrand: https://klevgrand.com/products/speldosa 

I then added the other elements including a second sequence and instance of Speldosa. In a break from the usual most of the effect processing was done externally. Although everything was recorded in one live take, mouse controlled to avoid MIDI channel conflicts. I tried recording the manipulations as automation tracks rather than just recording the results, OK in theory but a mess to work with, probably won't do that again.

Icicles - (naviarhaiku - 588)

rising sun
and nothing else –
misty sea!

Inoue Shiro (1742-1812) was a doctor and poet from Nagoya.

haiku by Inoue Shiro

picture by Vlad Kostiuk
 

Submission deadline: 23rd April 2025

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

Rising sun over a misty sea (naviarhaiku589)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 05/15/17 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Guitar, ebow/ferrous, guitar synth, effects.

This original version of "Get Misty For Me" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 589: Rising Sun.

Rising sun
and nothing else –
misty sea!

by: Inoue Shiro

Inoue Shiro (1742-1812) was a doctor and poet from Nagoya.

Infrared photography/art - Jim Lemanowicz, 27 Apr 2009,  Massapequa, NY, USA. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Get Misty For Me (naviarhaiku589)

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.

Making music is about being surprised.
https://www.patreon.com/blisterpop
Linktree for more - https://linktr.ee/blisterpop

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 
www.paulfletcherartwork.com
and at vimeo
vimeo.com/album/188779sound music noise ambience

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
-Experiments may appear on YouTube from time to time: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ikjoyce
-Albums will be released on Bandcamp: 
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/

New album "The Endless Solitude Of A Skylark's Song" now available:
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-solitude-of-a-skylarks-song

Album 'Selene' now available on Cassette / Download from Naviar Records: 
https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selene 

**Albums now available on iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, Spotify, and Google Play**  

I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.

New tracks tagged #NaviarHaiku