an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

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.

haiku by Saitō Sanki

Picture by John Jason

Submission deadline: 5th November 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Fishbones (NaviarHaiku617)

My attempt at a suspense cue for an imagined film. 

I got commissioned to write a film score recently. It ended up being rejected but as luck would have it, shortly thereafter  Marc’s @disquiet assignment came up. So I had quite a bit of material left over from these sessions. I felt they fit the “spooky and tense” bill just nicely. So using these as a starting point, I proceeded to add and remove layers, and a bass synth makes a rare appearance here, as well. Hope you enjoy it!

More details at: 

The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/

Suspn_c. (disquiet0722)

The haiku prompt for this:

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

Naviar haiku challenge 617, details here:  https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I have my field recording of the sea so I had a starting point; everything else was made with VCV Rack. I started with the sequences then added the synthetic waves, mixed with the real ones towards the end of the track. Wanting to keep the rest quite sparce and minimal I then made a simple chord sequence and a simple self generating melody.   

With a rough plan for the overall form I was going to follow I set up physical controls and multi track recording, hit record and mixed/modulated all the elements in one live take.

While the sea recording is my own it has been uploaded to freesound, find it here: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Drawn Back By The Sea - (naviarhaiku - 617)

Musique Concrète - a mix of electronic and recorded sounds.

Undercover Harpist (naviarhaiku618)

Never started never ended

thinking hasnt gotten me anywhere

ARRIVAL.

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
619
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku619-almost-black/

2025-11-13

almost black (Naviarhaiku 619)

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku619-almost-black/

almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes

by: Masaoka Shiki

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

Picture by Hassan Anayi

anthocyanin [ naviarhaiku619 ]

An electronic composition, basic sounds created using Pure Data.

Deepening Purple (naviarhaiku619)

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/abRkYfJUHhk

Glimpse 1506 (Nov 16 2025)

Musical experimenter using all sorts of techniques, ideas, and devices.  Open to exchange of ideas and materials and collaboration on tracks.

anthocyanin [ naviarhaiku619 ]

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