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"musica assoluta" (marzo 2021)

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

All submissions to Haiku 376:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/03/17/naviarhaiku376-chanting-and-humming/

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.

haiku #376: Chanting and humming / gongs immerse the green valley / in cool waves of air

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
376week haiku
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2021-03-18

chanting and humming ( Naviarhaiku 376)

Chanting and humming
gongs immerse the green valley
in cool waves of air

http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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Gong Fishing (naviarhaiku376)

chanting and humming
gongs immerse the green valley
in cool waves of air

naviarhaiku376: chanting and humming

Chanting and humming
gongs immerse the green valley
in cool waves of air

haiku by Mukai Kyorai https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukai-Kyorai

picture by Jaron Mobley https://unsplash.com/@jaron_mobley

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

fresh dilemma

halF immerseD [naviarhaiku376]

Electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Gong Waves (naviarhaiku376)

A small excerpt from a recent Expanded Cinema project by Dani Kirby ( Keyboards/Voice) and Mat ward (Bass), presented Live at MONA FOMA festival 2021 in Hobart, Tasmania. 
Project Synopsis/Media release....

The Smiling Madame Beudet
Germain Dulac, 1923

Kirby/Ward present the the latest chapter in their ongoing investigation both the history of sound in the era of silent cinema and the pioneering role female artists played (most often overlooked) in the avant garde. They have written and will perform a new score for voice, piano and bass to accompany Germain Dulac’s ground breaking 1923 film The Smiling Madame Beudet.
The Smiling Madame Beudet is credited as the first Feminist movie. The protagonist Madame Beudet is trapped in a suffocating marriage with her only escape being music and the fantasy that she lives in a different world. Her husband is domineering, boorish and frequently pretends to shoot himself (sometimes in front of guests) to taunt and belittle her. Far from portraying Madame Beudet as a victim it casts her as a heroine who, rather than submitting to a life of cruelty, seeks to assert her desires and free herself from the bonds of domestic misogyny.
Dulac uses groundbreaking cinematic artistry to embellish and add detail to both the narrative and the investigation of sexism and gendered roles through techniques such as super-imposition, ultra contrasting of focus, slow-motion, repetition of shots, abstraction and extreme camera angles. These techniques powerfully enforce the Dulac’s desire to show both the oppressiveness of the situation and the absolute need for an imagining of a better life.
The compositional approach focuses on highlighting the sub-text and philosophical underpinnings of the film with emphasis on the meta-narrative behind the protoganist’s story - which is a timeless critique of marriage, gender and sexism. Cinematically this is expressed through Dulac’s focus on Madame Beduet’s internal world as she moves between the disparity of escapism and reality. It is her complex voice and thoughts, as a metaphor for the broader issues of the film that Kirby/Ward bring to life through a dynamic score that incorporates multiple genres ranging from ultra minimalist melody all the way to deafening sub-bass drone.

The Smiling Madame Beudet LIVE Dani Kirby/Mat Ward

Mario

Invention N°8 « On a Spring Air » for Piano
My new improvisation / composition recorded this evening in my Home - Studio on Monday, March 1, 2021. Piano Bösendorfer
Music and Art-Painting by Franck Douvin.
Franck Douvin © 2021 Piano Inventions
Thanks for listening. Hope you'll enjoy!
Link on YouTube : https://youtu.be/WX-z-19tjHE

Invention N°8 « On a Spring Air » for Piano

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers, piano and mix down
itwasthewires : modular synthesizer

3 marzo 2021

"Le Roi du Monde" (w/ *itwasthewires*) - Manu

This is the home of my Disquiet Junto and Naviar Haiku submissions. 
To hear more of my music feel free to explore tunnelwater.bandcamp.com where I will be releasing a free series of albums of older music, and eventually some brand new material.

naviarhaiku376: chanting and humming

Tunnelwater