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

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

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 #558: cascade sounds / along a mountain path - / the blistering heat

cascade sounds
along a mountain path -
the blistering heat

A supporter of Kobayashi Issa, Kubota Shunko was the husband of the more famous Kubota Seifu. He was responsible for preserving one of his master's works: Last Days of Issa's Father (父の終焉日記, Chichi no Shūen Nikki), a poignant account of his father's final days. The text was passed down by generations of Shunko's descendants.

Haiku by Kubota Shunko

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF cascadE [naviarhaiku558]

cascade sounds
along a mountain path -
the blistering heat

Kubota Shunko
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

Cascade sounds: The Plava Voda (Blue Water) in Travnik, Bosnia, recorded in July 2024.

Free download

Naviar Haiku 558

Plava Voda [NaviarHaiku558]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
558
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

2024-09-12

Cascade Sounds (Naviarhaiku 558)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 12 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Synths, effects

This original version of "There Is No Down" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 558, Cascade Sounds

cascade sounds
along a mountain path -
the blistering heat

by: Kubota Shunko

A supporter of Kobayashi Issa, Kubota Shunko was the husband of the more famous Kubota Seifu. He was responsible for preserving one of his master's works: Last Days of Issa's Father (父の終焉日記, Chichi no Shūen Nikki), a poignant account of his father's final days. The text was passed down by generations of Shunko's descendants.

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Artwork/Photography by Jim Lemanowicz - 04 Oct 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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There Is No Down  (naviarhaiku558)

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data.

Mountain Heat (naviarhaiku558)

Cascaderie [naviarhaiku558]

taming ghosts

cascade sounds
 along a mountain path – 
the blistering heat

Haiku by Kubota Shunko

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Contribution for naviarrecords:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

Enjoy!

taming ghosts

taming ghosts (naviarhaiku558)

Disquiet Junto 0663 was an invitation to compose music to accompany a spinning-platter hard drive. 

I thought I would miss this one, as I was traveling abroad these past two weeks without any gear, not even a pair of decent headphones. But inspiration struck at the kitchen table in a rented flat in Manchester UK and there was no ignoring the impulse. This piece was recorded off the tempo grid, the notes were painted in a piano roll, and the automation was done with a trackpad. A very different creation experience and set of constraints for me! 

I like a little percussion with my drones, so I used the new stem splitter feature in Logic Pro to extract a few isolated samples of the hard drive chitter to establish a rhythmic foundation.

You will experience the song differently played through computer speakers vs headphones, and I can't say which way is the right way.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0663

The Lake Shore Drive Incident (disquiet0663)

IN   MEMORIAM   JOHN  CAGE

postpwned

Enter the danger zone! ... See the accompanying visuals and download the patch at https://youtu.be/wNy9nG9AaQU ... Create your own version of a volatile bytebeat atmos in VCV Rack! 😁

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

visuals & patch

halF volatilE [disquiet0671]

The ancient and languid waters of the sea of death

Yaleyt Digestap

Noon Without Voices

Composed by Capcom, Extended by Soundtrack Master

Serenity

You wanted more music, You got more music

Yrrra um fzc, hewe ceb etqvhljar

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

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

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

*****

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...

Cascaderie [naviarhaiku558]

Tuonela

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