autumn wind...
I am stringing
a plain-wood bow

Haiku by: Mukai Kyorai

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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notes of autumn (naviarhaiku563)

mixing homemade bells, metal junk with synthetic sounds and resynthesis, inspired by NaviarHaiku 564 :
Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit. 
Natsume Sōseki

Curling Wisps And Tumbling Clouds Of Fog (NaviarHaiku564)

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

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

I put together three generative parts for this in Reason - using Monotone, Felt Instruments Lekko & Subtractor. I then moved over to Ableton Live and did some processing there - shifted each track slightly off-time by stretching. 

This original version of "Surfactant Is Cool" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 564, Fog clears Away…

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.

by: Natsume Sōseki (Tr. Sōiku Shigematsu)

Undoubtedly one of the most important Japanese novelists in modern history, Natsume Sōseki began his career publishing haiku and renku poems in a number of newspapers and periodicals. Early in his career he met Masaoka Shiki, who encouraged him to become a writer and tutored him in the art of composing haiku.

Between 1900 and 1903 he studied at the UCL in London, but this proved to be quite a dramatic experience for the young Soseki. Despite this, when Soseki returned to Japan, he exploded into prolific writing activity.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 19 Aug 2011, LIRR, NY, USA

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

Surfactant Is Cool (naviarhaiku564)

Inspired by the Naviar haiku challenge #564 by Natsume Sōseki, “Fog clears away: / the waterfall shows up / bit by bit.” 
This haiku made me think of a quote by artist Cecil Collins, 
“I see a shape complete in itself I search it with my mind and heart and then it begins to extend and I see in the half darkness that it is part of a colossal structure whose parts are covered in mists and darkness, sections appear and disappear; how many years has it taken me to realize that those mists, clouds, and darkness are in myself, and in the body given to me by the fatal powers of the world; that in Reality everything exists as a whole; a vision, a harmony, a joy.”

Cascade Rhythms [naviarhaiku 564]

Created in response to:

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.

Naviar Haiku challenge 564, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

With the exception of one external effect everything was built in virtual modular using Voltage Modular this time experimenting with modules from Dome Music Technologies.

Fog Clears Away - (Naviarhaiku - 564)

Crickets and birds, frogs and other insects sometimes never seem to sleep at night in the forest!

Nightime In Spring (NaviarHaiku 565)

Takakuwa Rankō was a haijin from Kanazawa and a student of Wada Kiin. Born into a wealthy merchant family, he travelled all over Japan and finally settled in Kyoto, practising as a doctor. A great admirer of Bashō, he erected a small shrine (the Bashō-dō 芭蕉堂) in his honour in 1783. Among his main pupils was the poet Sakurai Baishitsu.

Haiku by Takakuwa Rankō

Springtime asleep (naviarhaiku565)

Track created in response to:

springtime woods
even birds of prey
nestled asleep.

Naviar Haiku challenge 565 details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

With the exception of one Dawn Chorus sample from this sound pack sold in aid of WWF Denmark: www.luftrum.com/free-field-recordings Everything was assembled in virtual modular using Voltage Modular from Cherry Audio. While the separate  elements were manipulated, mixed and recorded in one "Live" take  I did use a pre programmed polyphonic sequencer for the main melodic element as my MIDI controller only covers two octaves.

The birds of prey may be having a lay in but the others are up and about.

Springtime Woods - (Naviarhaiku - 565)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 08 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

This piece is the tail end of a longer generative improvisation. I used Ableton Live & Live native devices, Cherry Audio Pro Soloist & iZotope Ozone 9.

This original version of "I Was Then Tempted By A Single Raw Potato" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 566, Telegraph Pole

telegraph pole
toppled down by
the tempest

by: Masaoka Shiki

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 12 Nov 2019, Majorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

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

I Was Then Tempted By A Single Raw Potato (naviarhaiku566)

Created in response to:

telegraph pole
toppled down by
the tempest

Naviar Haiku challenge 566. Challenge details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge 

I'm continuing to explore Voltage Modular and set myself an additional challenge to only use modules from the VM900 Collection which emulate the original Moog modules. I almost made it, three standard LFOs crept in to control modulations on the drone, there wasn't time to tweak the Moog clones to get the timings right. The module set doesn't include an echo unit so an external effect was added to the portion of the audio that needed one. Everything was manipulated and recorded in one "Live" take. 

Tempest-(naviarhaiku-566)

Composer & music producer of electronic, ambient, piano, EDM, and Jazz amalgamations. Music as spiritual gateway.

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.

Sound artist.
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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