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haiku #622: Under the burning sky - / a procession of ants, / without end.

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Confusing multitudes of choice and directions...

28/11/2025 Updated with a much better mix now. Hope its an improvement. Please feel free to leave a comment as your feedback is really helpful.

A new track that I'm working on. 

Currently it is a rough outline that will be updated over the next few days. 

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts on it?

I will leave a message in the comments comment when i update the file.

Hope you enjoy it.

Branching Paths (Instrumental)

spiky dream

Tracks in order here:

Listen to Contemplation, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/aqD3ZVbtA7pXQ6LBKC
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Tempo 2.75 BPM
432 Hz
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Candescent
Objectivist
Nature
Tantric
Evolved
Mind
Please
Light
Air
Time
Innate
Vital
Easel


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That's the contemplation album complete. 6 tracks all 8 mins and this track is just words ad-libbed using the letters of the word contemplative as an acrostic like guide


that's enough contemplating for now 😆🕺



Note on the tempos. So I started track 1 with a tempo of 22 BPM. A nice slow tempo allowing for a variance of being able to imagine different metrics whilst listening to the instrumental piece.
To get a variance through the album over and above that then I halved the tempo and did tracks at 11, 5.5 and 2.75 BPM

This is also a nice way of getting different in time responses from using delays and reverbs within the DAW. I wanted to retain the 8 mins per track so I used 4/2 timing and 4/1 timing for the half and quarter speeds respectively. This made it easy to lock in the 8 minute lengths with different tempos and adjusted timings

That's another thing worth learning. If you want to do very slow tempo stuff and your DAW like logic doesn't allow decimal place BPM, you can change the timing of the bar to get you count at the decimal BPM thats less then 10. This allows for being exactly in time with a wider array of faster tempos and not just ones that are divisable by whole numbers

For example

22BPM 4/4
11 BPM 4/4
5.5 BPM 4/2
2.75 BPM 4/1

It's an extra little nugget for allowing some clever timings and getting slightly different results or allowing for the option of symmetry with a wider array of timings as mentioned above

Contemplative #6

STUMMFILM

Little song for Santoka Taneda haiku:
"Under the burning sky -
a procession of ants,
without end."
The title "Processó sota el cel" in English is "Procession under the sky".

Processó sota el cel (naviarhaiku622)

Made for the haiku challenge 622 of Naviar records.

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

Haiku by Santoka Taneda

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.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Under the burning sky (naviarhaiku622)

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/

more halF unusuaL

halF processioN [naviarhaiku622]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
622
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku622-under-the-burning-sky/

Under the burning sky - (Naviarhaiku 622)

5Dec25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/801910400587382784/naviarhaiku622-under-the-burning-sky
😊

a procession of ants [naviarkaiku622]

“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.”  – Elizabeth Camden

“Wisdom comes with winters.” – Oscar Wilde

Winter Reflection

Never underestimate the power of dreams.
A good way to find one's own soul.

Wildflower Dreams

Keep Going

My contribution for Naviar Records challenge naviarhaiku622: Under the Burning Sky

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

by: Santoka Taneda

For more about this challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku622-under-the-burning-sky/

Photo by Oktavianus Mulyadi https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-some-plants-O0fdunv2lvQ
Whistle sample by Freesound user InspectorJ, https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/423287/


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Eclectic electronic music ranging from ambient to experimental.

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.

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