Name: touching not the blossoms [naviarhaiku580] by Terry Mullett in haiku #580: quiescence! / touching not the blossoms, / temple bell's voice
Duration: 4 min 12 s
Description: My response to this week's challenge by @naviar-records. To learn more about this challenge see https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

beautifiull calm, atmospheric with lovely bell detailing...

touching not the blossoms....while caressing the soul, from the temple bell's voices-:) beautiful solitude- well done!

So incredibly smooth and gentle! Feels like time is slowing down.

It captures the slow flow of time. In this sacred space, I feel a guidance to purity.

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haiku #580: quiescence! / touching not the blossoms, / temple bell's voice

Diving Bell Accident

using 20 resonance tones I recorded on a toy piano and acoustic guitar, I've responded to this week's @naviar-haiku music challenge, of which you can find details about here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Haiku by Fuhaku

Extract of picture by Ming Han Low

bell's voice (naviarhaiku580)

Instrumental composed and performed by DD February 2025 using @gforce-software 's Oberheim OB-X, OB-E and DMX exclusively.

for this haiku by Fuhaku
quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Temple - naviarhauku580

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
580
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

2025-02-14

Temple Bell's Voice (Naviarhaiku 580  )

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records. 
A two-note bell ringing above a flowery meadow.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

Thank you NAVIAR RECORDS.

Quiescence (naviarhaiku580)

An electronic composition created using Pure Data with a little added echo and reverb.

Temple Bells (naviarhaiku580)

My response to this week's challenge by @naviar-records. To learn more about this challenge see https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

touching not the blossoms [naviarhaiku580]

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A selection of eclectic short works that were previously unpublished.

08 Tozmevoco was created using processed voice samples from Tom Ze's "Jogos De Armar (Faça Você Mesmo) [Bonus Disc]". Thank you, Tom Ze!

13 Blackbird Pie

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Lively-Nihilism-904368972

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Composed on a Pocket Operator Speak, this short electronic track loops the unresolvable — a sentence, a sound, a sensation. > It doesn’t offer closure. It doesn’t soothe. It holds. > The cure isn’t elsewhere. It’s in the wound. In the glitch. In the signal, breaking apart and coming home.

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Thomas Sander × Aoki Satoru - Mountain
Guitar, electronics, samplings: Thomas Sander, Schwerin, Germany
Prepared bass: Aoki Satoru – Tokyo, Japan
July 28, 2025

Thomas Sander
https://soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295

Aoki Satoru
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touching not the blossoms [naviarhaiku580]

Terry Mullett

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