Recorded, mixed & mastered 26 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this, I started by recording two phrases into Ableton Live on a Jay Turser MG-2 “Mustang” guitar tuned to F# A# C# G# C# F. For both loops - which were different lengths - I used PitchLoop89, some compression, a warp/stretch mode and a bit of chorus. Next I used a Rogue Fretless bass and then Cherry Audio’s ARP Pro Soloist. Other items used - Live native devices and Melda plugins.

This original version of "Red Over Seventeen" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 560, Daybreak!

daybreak!
the tempest interred
in snow

by: Inoue Shiro

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

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

Red Over Seventeen (naviarhaiku560)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02/03 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this, I started with a very casual absently-minded piano piece using  QuNexus, Noire Felt & Bitwig. I pulled a section of this for this Naviar Haiku and another section for this week’s Disquiet Junto. I moved an audio copy of this section to Ableton Live and added a dronish patch I put together in Vital. I added some Chow Tape Model to the piano track. That’s really it. 

This original version of "Trunk, Redeclared" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 561, stars on the pond…

stars on the pond...
again the pitter-pattering
freezing drizzle

by: Tachibana Hokushi

Tachibana Hokushi, whose real name was Tachibana Genjiro, was born in Kanazawa in 1665. Hokushi was one of Basho’s most famous students at the time, and he even accompanied the great master during part of his famous journey through the narrow roads of the North, from Kanazawa to Matsuoka.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 14 Oct 2014, Massapequa

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

Trunk, Redeclared (naviarhaiku561)

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)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 22/23 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

This piece is a section of a longer generative improvisation. I started on the iPad and finished on PC. I used Audiobus, Ableton Live & native devices, 4Pockets Euclidean, Cem Olcay's Binarythmic & ScaleBud2, Audio Damage Fuzz Plus 3 & Fluid, iZotope Ozone 9, iZotope Exciter & Imager, Bleass Monolit & Delay, Moog Animoog, Igor Vasilev's Altispace, Bram Bos' Rozeta LFO.

This original version of "Now I Just Blue Myself" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 568, Liquid Flowers Hum. A longer, raw iPad take captured on video will be uploaded for my Patreon subscribers later this weekend.  https://patreon.com/blisterpop.

liquid flowers hum
each donning Dali’s moustache -
Narcissus shatters

by: Darren Bourne

Darren Bourne’s surreal poem came to life while he was making AI video experiments based on Salvador Dalí’s Metamorphosis of Narcissus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_of_Narcissus)

"According to expert Jane Reichhold, the *hai* of haiku means “joke, or fun, or unusual”, which is part of the inspiration behind the name halF unusuaL, the experimental electronic music project of Darren Bourne, who also writes haiku and has been published by the British Haiku Society."

You can find Darren’s music here - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2bmRZgyBACkW6lnkTWHSw, and check out his website (https://www.halfunusual.com/) to find out more about his publications and merchandise.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz / DALL-E

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

Now I Just Blue Myself  (naviarhaiku568)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 27 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

This piece is a section of a longer generative improvisation. Using a patch I created earlier in the evening on Arturia Prophet V3 in the VS mode, I started in Bitwig with a few sequenced notes, Nitwig’s own random elements, CodeFN42 RandArp & iZotope’s Neoverb. I chose a small section to replicate across four tracks in Ableton Live and committed some variation with Live’s native devices and some other iZotope plugins. 

This original version of "Ion Exchange & Found" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 569, Resplendent. 

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

by: Kobayashi Issa

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. 

Art/photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Nov 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA
©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Ion Exchange & Found  (naviarhaiku569)

Resplendent 
 the kite soaring up above 
the shanty town

haiku by Haiku by Kobayashi Issa.      https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Kite Resplendent ( NaviarHaiku 569)

Created as a response to:

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

Navair Haiku challenge 569, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

All elements made using Voltage Modular, assembled and manipulated vis mapped physical controls; recorded in one live take.  

Soaring Above - (naviarhaiku - 569)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 11 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used 3 instances of VCV Rack running Voxglitch ArpSeq within Ableton Live. In Live, I was running FL Studio with Sytrus loaded, Live's Wavetable and Arturia's Arp 2600. From about 23 minutes, I used this small section towards the end and did a bit of editing.

This original version of "So Glad To See You Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 571, Stillness.  

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.
by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Photography/visual editing by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Nov 2018, Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC, USA

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

So Glad To See You Again (naviarhaiku571)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 18 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used Live, Live native devices, Dillon Bastan’s Rhythmorphic and Arturia’s Mini V & Prophet-5 V. 

This original version of "Polar Decomposition In Rhode Island" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 572, cool breeze.  

cool breeze–
cloud shadows
on the green paddies

by: Morikawa Kyoroku

Morikawa Kyoroku (1656-1715) studied with the great Basho for ten months, who was the one who chose his nickname Kyoroku because he excelled in all six (roku) art forms: calligraphy, painting, spear, sword, horse riding and haiku.

Art photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Apr 2017, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, USA with an Agfa camera using Ilford HP5. 

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

Polar Decomposition In Rhode Island (naviarhaiku572)

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.

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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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