Created in TidalCycles from a bodyless bass guitar improvisation. Enjoy the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/eMlJep-c-fM

beyond the talus
withering in the valley
- a hanging glacier

This haiku by Lisa Germany is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between Naviar Records and Red Earth Ecology that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration.

Lisa is a multidisciplinary artist whose work begins with walking, preferably in wild places. Rooted in awe and attentive to the natural world, she writes haiku and haibun in the traditional Japanese tradition, seeking moments of beauty in everyday experience.

The Australian living in Arctic Greenland gave a presentation that started the Stay Cool workshops. Her presentation can be viewed at https://youtu.be/aqy5HYAi6Fc or a summary can be read at ree.org.au/2026/02/17/stay-cool-with-lisa-germany/

The Stay Cool project will culminate in an exhibition in the city of Griffith, Australia from 20 April.

Haiku by Lisa Germany: https://lisagermany.com

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF glaciaL [naviarhaiku636]

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kagami Shikō’s poem “In the temple hall, / sparrows chirping — / evening shower.”

Tracklist:

ray_cobley · In the Temple Hall https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/in-the-temple-hall
Boundary Objects · SONG 139 https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-139-naviarhaiku634-in-the
Jimmy Lem · Did I Have A Fissure Before https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/did-i-have-a-fissure-before
Night Note · in the temple hall https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/in-the-temple-hall-naviarhaiku
zenbytes · temple hall https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/temple-hall-naviarhaiku634
Stan Magendanz -In the temple hall sparrows chirping https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/in-the-temple-hall-sparrows


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Thanks to all our supporters:

  Alan Florit, alkem24, Andō, danap_m, dlm, dounianne, Ed Mundio, El Wud, Jared Rimer, JM, John Wright, Larry Ellingson, Lemonjimm, LunGao, Martin Clark, Michael Fitzgerald, Mike Shockley, Mr_Lamppost, murray_9, onosendai, Randall, Richard Banks, Scott, Snark, stonetapetheory, Tom Gray, Walter Fini, Wanja, Olten, Xon Karasu, zenbytes, Bruno Blanchard.

Naviar Broadcast #402– In the temple hall – Wednesday 11th March 2026

A short semi improvised piano piece inspired by this haiku:

beyond the talus
withering in the valley —
a hanging glacier

Haiku by Lisa Germany
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

The Fragile Valley  (naviarhaiku 636)

Scrie pentru că există. Scrie și publică. Are deja 12 cărți. Ce scrie? Haiku? Ce este haiku aflați în interviu. 
Este cunoscută, de asemenea, ca editorialist literar, mai ales pentru podcastul „Îți place haiku-ul?”. Este membra a Asociației Francofone de Haiku și a inițiat Kukaï în Bruxelles, care reunește autori de haiku.
Astăzi, în contextul Zilei Internaționale a Poeziei, dar și a limbii franceze, la Nume în lume vorbim cu și despre poeta Iocasta Huppen, care a îndrăgit acest gen de artă din 2013 și pasiunea e doar în ascensiune.


Iocasta Huppen

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Music-Challenge;

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku636-beyond-the-talus/

beyond the talus -naviarhaiku636

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 636:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku636-beyond-the-talus/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Lake Ann Pass, Colorado, USA, 2024)

hanging glacier - Naviarhaiku636

THF AUDIOBOOK SCRIPT TEMPLATE
kacian_jim_six directions

Series Tag w Music: BG
“Welcome to The Haiku Foundation Audio Library”

Opening Credits: BG
“You are listening to Six Directions: Haiku & Field Notes, written by Jim Kacian, as read by the author, with a foreword by J.B. Bryan, read by Brent Goodman. Published in 1997 by La Alameda Press. Copyright by Jim Kacian. ”

Production Tag: BG
“This original audiobook was recorded in collaboration with The Haiku Foundation, serving to promote, preserve, & develop the art of haiku and its related forms. Engineered & produced at Whole Self Studios in 2026.”

"Six Directions: Haiku & Field Notes" by Jim Kacian 1997 Alameda Press [2026 Audiobook]

Sounds of me feeding a swan, decimated in TidalCycles! 
Images of me feeding a swan (and a fig leaf), decimated in Blender! 
Enjoy the bizarre and highly abstract visuals at https://youtu.be/UGXeSZhIikw ... 
to go with this bizarre and highly abstract sound ... 😁 

Just what you've come to expect from halF unusuaL 😉🤭😁

Just to clear up the ambiguity, I wasn't feeding a fig leaf with anything ... 

first light -
a flock of birds dart
in and out of the fig tree

This haiku by Anne Curran is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between Naviar Records and Red Earth Ecology that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration.

Anne Curran is a striving Japanese short verse poet who resides in Hamilton, New Zealand. She lives with family and extended family in Aotearoa. Her precious cat family keeps her on a strict daily regime.
The Stay Cool project will culminate in an exhibition in the city of Griffith, Australia from 20 April.

Haiku by Anne Curran: https://nzhaiku.wordpress.com/anne-curran/

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

halF flocK [naviarhaiku637]

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Leanne Wicks’ poem “can you hear the stars? / shiny trills, thrills in the dark / my mind’s orchestra”

Tracklist:

zenbytes · can you hear the stars https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/can-you-hear-the-stars
windspace · can you hear the stars https://soundcloud.com/windspace/can-you-hear-the-stars
Tuonela · My God, it's full of stars!  https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/my-god-its-full-of-stars
fectoper · Aus des weltalls ferne https://soundcloud.com/fectoper/aus-des-weltalls-ferne
Jimmy Lem · Start Up The Crabfish https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/start-up-the-crabfish

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Thanks to all our supporters:

  Alan Florit, alkem24, Andō, danap_m, dlm, dounianne, Ed Mundio, El Wud, Jared Rimer, JM, John Wright, Larry Ellingson, Lemonjimm, LunGao, Martin Clark, Michael Fitzgerald, Mike Shockley, Mr_Lamppost, murray_9, onosendai, Randall, Richard Banks, Scott, Snark, stonetapetheory, Tom Gray, Walter Fini, Wanja, Olten, Xon Karasu, zenbytes, Bruno Blanchard.

Naviar Broadcast #403 – Can you hear the stars – Wednesday 18th March 2026

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Music-Challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku637-first-light/

a flock of birds dart-naviarhaiku637

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

Welcome to this evolving sound-space — part of a growing, organic ecosystem with a life of its own.

I explore the edges of music and not-music: texture, noise, chance, micro-sound, loops, ASMR drift, and tones that feel familiar in their strangeness. Some pieces lean musical, some lean perceptual — all of it is listening research in disguise.

This is where many of the more “music-shaped” experiments live — sketches, loop studies, ambient fragments, and sonic accidents that sometimes turn into worlds.

✨👂 Listen curiously
👀 Notice what your mind does
🔁 Loops, attention, texture, drift

For the full audio-visual + workshop side of the project — perceptual experiments, Atelier patch walkthroughs, and sound you can see — find me on YouTube http://youtube.com/@halfunusual

Same experiments. Different doorway.

Thanks for being here — your listens, follows, and support keep the lab lights on 🙏

The Oxford Ambient Collective (OAC) is the solo musical alter-ego of David Smith, an artist who began his compositional journey in his early thirties using software such as Buzz, FL Studio and Reason. He has a  focus on a aesthetic of crafting immersive "ambient drones and ethereal soundscapes." Intentionally grounding his work in the history of the genre, Smith’s creative output reveals a clear artistic lineage, with albums like Berlin Vol. III acknowledging the "subtle German EM influences" and paying thematic homage to the pioneering Berlin School of electronic music. While deeply reverent to this historical lineage, Smith's methodology is aggressively contemporary, positioning him at the vanguard of mobile sound design by relying on a sophisticated suite of iOS applications to perform complex sonic morphing and generate his signature textures; his advanced workflow employs Soundscaper as an "experimental sound mini lab" for textural manipulation, with all audio professionally routed through the AUM mixer and hosting application. This innovative approach powered his self-proclaimed "proudest achievement"—a 90-minute live performance at Oxford's prestigious Ashmolean Museum, an opportunity secured through his affiliation with Oxford Brookes University as part of its 150th Anniversary celebrations. To solve the inherent challenge of engaging an audience with long-form ambient music, Smith transformed the event into an immersive audio-visual installation, pairing his soundscapes with curated visuals from sources like The Internet Archive to command "active listening." The project's visibility expanded significantly beyond this institutional context through a pivotal relationship with the independent Focussed Silence label, which was instrumental in securing national airplay on BBC 6 Music. This success highlights a versatile appeal, with OAC's work finding a home on highly experimental programs like A Duck in a Tree on Resonance FM—hosted by the influential group :zoviet * france:—as well as on sophisticated global platforms where his work was programmed alongside compositions by genre progenitors like Brian Eno and Vangelis. While OAC remains a solo endeavor at its core, Smith actively engages in digital collaboration with a network of sound artists like Encym via platforms such as SoundCloud, effectively transforming the solo project into a decentralized creative hub, thereby giving true meaning to the "Collective" in his moniker.

Indie music demos, live rehearsal mixes, original poetry,  audiobook readings, podcasts & more by Gen X multi-media creator Brent Goodman, currently producing/performing in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, USA. Contact for collaboration: WholeSelfStudios@gmail.com

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

LOUNGE NOISE - SYPHILITIC EXOTICA - RAW AMBIENT - SADBIENT

 ### Makes the show "Nya Ljud" on Camp Radio: http://arkivfeber.se/nyaljud.html

https://linktr.ee/rikardfvs

Twitter and Bluesky: @rikardfvs

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sadbient

TikTok: @rikard157

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/rikardfvs/

Bandcamp: https://rikardfvs.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://spotify.link/EyeMydE7Oyb

Earlier project / Colloboration:
https://hetdonkseoog.bandcamp.com/album/dp016-hamnskiftet
https://soundcloud.com/great-learning-orchestra
https://soundcloud.com/twooegg
https://myspace.com/rikardd/

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