An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

The Immutable Past (naviarhaiku588)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 19 Apr 2019 & 9 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, Effects

This original version of "Free Carrot Juice" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 588: The Past, Immutable.

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

by Saitō Sanki

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 16 Apr 2019, Upper East Side, Manhattan, NYC, USA. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Free Carrot Juice (naviarhaiku588)

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward
     
haiku by Saitō Sanki

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



ima wa ima (naviarhaiku588)

Initially I had no inspiration for this challenge. Instead I was working on trying to create a stack of delay plugins that would give me a ping pong effect that I could use on future projects.

I used a single note from a Toraiz AS-1 as the source and when I completed my stack I found it very rhythmic and meditative, much like water dripping from an icicle.

I added other notes at various times and looping them creating a kind of polyrhythm bed and played a gliding lead line over the top. 

All sounds were created by a Pioneer DJ Toraiz AS-1. I love this little synth and its touch keyboard. The front panel controls are very well suited to live jamming and it's very expressive.

The odd title comes from the placement of the gliding lead sound. If I started it at measure 6 it made the middle part sound really good but then the ending was monotonous .  If I started it at measure 13 the other sounds faded out leaving just the lead which made the ending sound cool but then the beginning part was meh. Placing the lead starting at measure 10 seemed the best compromise and thus the name Icicle Ten :-)

Icicle Ten (naviarhaiku588)

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