slightly faint
yet clear
the milky way

oshio Kiyosaki (1922-1999) was a Japanese haiku poet and scholar of Japanese literature. He published a biography of Kyoshi Takahama in 1966 and co-authored Kyoshi Monogatari, another study on the renowned haiku poet, in 1979.

The Milky Way (amanogawa, or "Heavenly River" in Japanese) is a kigo for Autumn, mainly because that's when the galaxy is most visible in Japan.

Haiku by Toshio Kiyosaki

Picture by Yong Chuan Tan

agates chill wryly - naviarhaiku606

More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/

abc iodized request - disquiet712

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

as soggy neutrons - naviarhaiku608

R<VR

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

Picture by Pascal Bullan

beryl mossed wools - naviarhaiku611

More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/

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This track was produced using four Csound instruments that provided a variety of timbres. The structural framework was built using a chaotic algorithm written in Python which generated the notes for the score.

nos unideal - disquiet0718

Noise made from the roots of all 15th degree Littlewood polynomials (i.e., polynomials with coefficients that are all ±1).  The sound's spectrogram matches, approximately,  a plot of the roots.

noise from roots of 15-th degree Littlewood polynomials

More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.

rnv offspring - disquiet0722

A few minutes of live-processed (with Csound) guitar improvisation.  The Csound code is a simple version of something I'm working on with delayed copies of the input signal interfering with each other spectrally.  

live processed guitar improvisation, I

Six Schmidt trigger oscillators live-processed with a Csound instrument I wrote.  Noisy.

hex schmidt trigger thing live-processed with Csound

A math person making and modifying sounds with custom code, Csound, homemade electronics.

New tracks tagged #csound