Long time listeners may remember this little snippet of Birmingham market ambience used before for the Naviar Haiku Challenge number 480: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-heavenly-naviarhaiku480?si=b07fd7c2edbd4e95912344b2d2dc119e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ... That's more than two years ago ... but I still enjoy what it evokes in me ❤️

the harp player
moves under cover
market day

kjmunro cultivates poetry on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. She founded & facilitates ‘solstice haiku', a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, & manages a weekly blog feature for The Haiku Foundation called Haiku Dialogue. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, & her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).

haiku by kjmunro: https://kjmunro1560.wordpress.com

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

more halF unusuaL

halF marketeD [naviarhaiku618]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 618:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku618-the-harp-player/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Lagos, Portugal, 2013)

under cover market day - Naviarhaiku618

almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes

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.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki: https://mypoeticside.com/poets/masaoka-shiki-poems

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

halF deepeninG [naviarhaiku619]

14Nov25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/800014800629497856/naviarhaiku619-almost-black
😊

deepening purple [naviarhaiku619]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 691:
www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku619-almost-black/

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

Photo by zenbytes (La Palma, Spain, 2015)


deepening purple - Naviarhaiku619

20Nov25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/800654862684717056/naviarhaiku620-some-starlight
😊

some starlight [naviarhaiku620]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 620:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku620-some-starlight/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, 2017)

some starlight - Naviarhaiku620

27Nov25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/801286007066656768/naviarhaiku621-deutzia-in-full-white
😊

deep in the night [naviarhaiku621]



Inspired by Naviar Haiku 621:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku621-deutzia-in-full-white/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, 2017)


full white - Naviarhaiku621

Under the burning sky -
a procession of ants,
without end.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda: https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm

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

halF processioN [naviarhaiku622]

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

Welcome tσ th!s εvσlving space … inspired by thε playful sp!rit of hai (meaning “fun” or unμsuΔl, like in haiku) …

I dig around thε edges t0 uneΔrth non-mμ§ic musics — sliding into nσ!§ε, glitch, chΔnce, Δ$MR, and σther soundwσrlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity …

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And for the full hΔlF unμ§uaL trεΔ†ment for your eyes Δs well as your εars, check σut the Yσutubε channel… ░▒▓█ ᵒ(≧▽≦)ᵒ ░▒▓█▒░

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Almost all tracks are free to download and covered by a Creative Commons license. Collaborations / Remixes are welcome so feel free to experiment - no need to get my permission first. Just send me a link to your track when you're done :)

I love listening to & creating ambient, dark ambient, avant-garde & experimental electronica (and the occasional beatscape). I have no professional aspirations  - I just really like creating music / manipulating sounds. It's my way of relaxing after a hard day at the office. All my tracks are produced using monitoring headphones (Audix A140) so I recommend that you listen to my music through headphones. My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I also use Reason every now & then. 


To the artists I follow; I do my best to try to listen to as many of your tracks as possible each night (I listen to each track all the way through - you went through the effort to create a track so you deserve to have it heard in full). If I miss a recent upload of yours, please forgive me...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my little corner of the soundcloud.

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