Deadline: 22nd February 2023

All submissions to Haiku 476:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/02/15/naviarhaiku476-birds-in-a-bare-tree/

To participate:
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz
Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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haiku #476: Birds in a bare tree / Dance on windswept branches / Their waiting ballet…

Music created for

NAVIAR HAIKU 476
"Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…"

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

Cover by Nelson Brodon

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Windswept Ballet

Naviar Records

Nelson Brodon - Windswept Ballet [Naviar Haiku 476]

haiku by Luke Levi https://www.lukelevi.com/

picture by Nadine Marfurt https://unsplash.com/@nadine3

nawak

Soft Rock (naviarhaiku475)

It's the half term school holidays in the UK this week, I'm sitting at home with two young kids and I read this email from Naviar for the Haiku challenge as it pops into my inbox.  I love the image this haiku creates. Outside my window at home we have tree branches that are winter bare. I was filming these the other day for another project. 
I had an idea for the music straight away - a 'bare' sort of sound to reflect the image of branches.  I started on this straight away. The kids are happy playing so I progressed and made this in about 2 hours. 

Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…

John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in three improvising duos: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland) and ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott).

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 22nd February 2023

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Robbin Huang https://unsplash.com/@ikarishinjigao

Audio Obscura - The Ballet Of Birds On A Windswept Branch (naviarhaiku476)

Marco Lucchi : analog synthesizer, piano and tape

found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/

for the current Naviar Haiku challenge
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/02/15/naviarhaiku476-birds-in-a-bare-tree/

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Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet ..

John Hinks

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15 febbraio 2023

Marco Lucchi - A bare tree [Naviar Haiku # 476]

Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Robbin Huang https://unsplash.com/@ikarishinjigao

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

daft whelp wins

halF windswepT [naviarhaiku476]

Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…

John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in three improvising duos: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland) and ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott).

waiting [naviarhaiku476]

Created with Auras by Slate+Ash, Piano Colors and Ethereal Earth by Native Instruments, Quanta 2 by AudioDamage. Cubase 12 and Ozone 10 effects and mastering

Sample: https://freetousesounds.bandcamp.com/track/meditative-morning-forest-sounds-germany

Photo by zenbytes (2022, Darss Peninsula, Baltic Sea, Germany)

bare tree ballet - Naviarhaiku476

bare tree ballet - Naviarhaiku 476

Future Dance Naviarhaiku476

Hazy Blue Peaks [ naviarhaiku477 ]

naviarhaiku482 – dark and light
dark and light
balanced vernal equinox
marginal breath

Andy Perrin is a writer/photographer/cyclist/teacher who lives in southern Rhode Island in the U.S. He often explores the world around him on one of his bicycles and records moments of inspiration in photographs and words.

Much of his work is rooted in nature and recently that led him to begin to practice haiku. Andy enjoys tight writing that allows the reader to find room for themselves among the words and lines. His poetry and photography has been published by petrichor, Roi Faineant Press, Brimstone & Venus Literary, Full Mood Mag, Spare Parts Lit, Green Ink Poetry, and Quibble Literary Journal.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

dark and light

naviarhaiku482 - dark and light

In responding to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge, I was exploring the live loops capabilties of Logic Pro. hHere I am taking nine tiny sample slices of improvising with @stellato-strings and slooooowing it right down to five.

Here's information about this week's prompt:

in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion

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. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.

From the Haiku Guy website:

“Perhaps Issa’s dream is symbolic. Like a turtle, he is hunkered inside his shell (hut), waiting out the harsh winter weather. Or, William Nicholas offers a different interpretation, noting that the turtle is linked with good luck and longevity in Japan. In 1812 Issa was still a bachelor; he married two years later. At this point in his life he longed for the good luck of marriage and family life, hence the dream turtle’s teasing laughter?”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 17th May 2023

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Todd Trapani https://unsplash.com/photos/ymEcUhbjCrI

in dream world (naviarhaiku488)

Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

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.

One star remaining (naviarhaiku492)

Marco's lovely haiku inspired this improvisation, played originally on Mai Tai VST synth (within Studio One 6). Because I'm not yet used to working in Studio One, I had a few problems and moved it into my usual DAW, Reaper, then did some quite heavy editing before mastering with CloudBounce. It's a bit of a mash-up but I hope it captures the feel of a desolate street at dawn...  :)
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Desolate Dawn (naviarhaiku493)

MT. PEPEMORE

Fragments of creation float in the infinite void, reflecting the architecture of an unseen intelligence. Each fragment carries the memory of the cosmos: a silent harmony between gravity and light, chaos and order. Beyond perception, geometry resonates at frequencies too subtle for thought, weaving a continuum where time refracts into consciousness. The universe listens to itself through these crystalline echoes, revealing that each fragment is the whole, and every silence contains the voice of all existence.

Solar Law

A little empathy goes a long way.
Remember that everyone around you is human just like you.

Photo by Designecologist:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/heart-shaped-red-neon-signage-887349/

Empathy

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.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

What's the last thing the drummer said before being kicked out of the band?

"Let's try playing one of my songs."

Here are my songs.

Future Dance Naviarhaiku476

John Wright

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