Deadline: 7th February 2024

All submissions to Haiku 526:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

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 (naviarhaiku382)”
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 #526: Turning around / I see my shadow / in the moonlight

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin

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

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halF moonlighT [naviarhaiku526]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
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https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

2024-02-01

Turning Around ( Naviarhaiku 526)

My new contribution to the current Naviar Haiku project.

Moonlight Shadow (naviarhaiku526)

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Sumitaku Kenshin was a haiku poet who practiced free-form haiku. He started writing poety after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and dedicated the last 2 years of his life to haiku, leaving 281 poems, mostly published by the free-form haiku magazine Kaishi.

 

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin
Picture by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Turning in the moon light (naviarhaiku526)

A sequence of modulated sounds from a recorded improvisation.

Shadows In Moonlight (naviarhaiku526)

Musical response to NAVIARHAIKU526 – TURNING AROUND January 31, 2024

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

haiku by: Sumitaku Kenshin

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

Truffle (naviarhaiku526)

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

SONG 80 - DisquietJunto0690 - Knot Bad

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0692-combust-a-move/71387/7

**Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move**  
The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

There is just one step for this project: Record a piece of music in which the sound of fire — match, burner, cigarette, etc. — provides the primary source for the rhythmic track.

[Disquiet Junto 0692] Wentworth Callback

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

disquiet0696

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 591:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Performed live for a "Learning Sound and Synthesis" session. Except fade in/out no changes made to the initial recording.

Using Make Noise Strega, 0-COAST and 0-CTRL, AUM and various synths and effects on iPad, and Erae 2 as Midi and CV controller.

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Portugal, 2013)


dream and reality - Naviarhaiku591

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

disquiet0697

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0697-first-third/71838/18

The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three consecutive weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece resulting from this week’s project will be panned to the left in the second and third weeks of this sequence.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and the one after that.

[Disquiet Junto 0697] Mr. Bowed Jangles

From disquiet's junto project 0697 (may 2025 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0697-first-third/) I took Coraline Ada Ehmke's track
https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/the-minotaurs-lament

I played electric bass guitar (a maple Fender Jazz Bass with a pick, a mute, and a crunchy amp) and added an Oberheim DMX for the Motorik groove.

Coraline’s original track was already quite full, but I was hearing a Motorik rhythm underneath and thought a full bass & drums section might work. I think I was wrong—the result feels too busy, and the most interesting parts are still in the bass arpeggiator sequence and its variations.
I re-recorded the live bass five times with different arrangements, but none really landed the way I hoped.
To improve the flow, I ended up cutting sections and shortening the piece. In the second half, I also used a filter to tone down the original synths and make space for the rhythm section.
I probably spent four times longer on this than on the other collabs this week—and still couldn’t get it where I wanted. That said, it was a fun experiment. Coraline’s infectious sequence was a pleasure to work with, and I think the final result is nice (Motorik groove was a good idea, right?).
But in the end, I don’t think it really provides a solid foundation for a third collaboration—so for me, it doesn’t quite fulfill the prompt.

@coralineada

Minotaur's Run (with Coraline Ada Ehmke)

This was my second contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third. The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0698 discussion thread on Lines:

For the second track, I went with “Mr. Bowed Jangles” by @tristan_louth_robins. I extended the length of it by looping the piece 2.5 times. Then created the right channel track using Dillon Bastan’s Max For Live granular looper device Iota in Ableton Live.  

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

Bowed And Jangled Farther [disquiet0698]

Bamboo Shoots Emerge

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0700: View Frame. The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0700 discussion thread on Lines:

Image of our front yard was taken through one of the bedroom windows. We’re lucky to live in a home surrounded by conifers and native California oaks. The calming view of the trees from the windows in some rooms make it seem like we’re in a forest rather than in a neighborhood with other people. I tried to convey the placid mood here. 

This was created in Ableton Live using Slate+Ash Choreographs, Spectres and Orchestral Tools Mirrors. Effects used were Soundtoys Spaceblender, Aberrant DSP SketchCassette II  and builtin reverb. A field recording from the front yard with a water fountain, birds, wind chimes and other ambient sounds was layered in. It was recorded using a Zoom F3 with right angle Pluggy mics. Happy 700th Disquiet Junto! Here’s to many more in the years ahead.

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

Forest Window [disquiet0700]

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

Truffle (naviarhaiku526)

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