fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Arvo Part

"musica assoluta" (settembre 2025)

All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- 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 X, 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

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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.

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haiku #609: revealing in the dark / the sadness of things / a fisherman's torch

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Piccolo Studio

Buy Breathe In Tongues

01 Shadows Burned

Kleines Gitarrentrio – für Kinder und Jugendliche, 2016

Uraufführung: Birkenwerder, Evangelische Kirche; gespielt von Lehrern der Musikschule Hohenneuendorf 2016

Kleines Gitarrentrio – für Kinder und Jugendliche

Revealing the dark torch (naviarhaiku609)

4Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793657063087767552/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark
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The sadness of things [naviarhaiku609]

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Sadness in the Dark (naviarhaiku609)

Made for the haiku challenge 609 of Naviar records.

revealing in the dark the sadness of things a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Thank you Marco!

A fisherman's torch (naviarhaiku609)

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

609
Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

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.

For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 119 - NaviarHaiku609 - Revealing in the Dark

Made for Naviar Records' 609th Haiku Challenge

A torch in the dark [naviar609]

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

A torch in the dark [naviar609]

Tuonela