The prompt for this track:

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

Naviar Haiku Challenge 581,details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A fair amount of experimentation with ways to represent the haiku, some more successful and obvious than others, the rippling sequence is more inspired by the image than the poem but I kept it in to move the music forward.

Other than the samples, sourced from freesound:

rowing boat from inside.wav by Fenodyrie -- https://freesound.org/s/588307/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
oar.wav by bruno.auzet -- https://freesound.org/s/525030/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Everything was made in virtual modular using a combination of VCV Rack and Voltage Modular.  Running VM as a plugin allowed me to run both in parallel and make a single take multitrack recording. 

Billowing Clouds - (naviarhaiku - 581)

Resisting Eternal Oblivion

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” ― N.K. Jemisin
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Track list and start times:
00:00  Malady of Knots – Roads like seas like fossilised thought (excerpt)
04:50  Ramón Sánchez – Orbiting Mendacem
13:39  Night Note – The past, immutable (Naviarhaiku 588 )
19:05  Andrew Lang – Regime Shift
24:14  Pendro – Red Veils and Black Sands
29:22  Kazuya Ishigami – kiii
37:30  Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – night in our eyes
44:21  fr0ggy5 – my father's antique cowbells FOUR
46:42  Ian Craig – Ghost of the Radiophonic Workshop on LV-426 (Emporium Edit v8c) (excerpt)
56:02  Laboratorium Expiravit – Wormhole Freedive
1:02:53  Battle Elf – Behind the Wilderness
1:12:30  Plague Relic – Storm Wizards Madness
1:16:44  Kloob & Onasander – Khthon
1:23:33  Monogoto – In Situ - Upper Air (deletion 19)
1:31:01  vheissu77 – touching the water (naviarhaiku581)
1:35:05  Kazuya Ishigami – Cancel Again
1:40:00  loscil – Lake Fire
1:46:47  Jaime Munarriz – The Little Travels Of Delia Derbyshire
1:49:57  Jonah Segers – Mesozoïcun
1:53:34  Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – we fall into heaven
2:05:34  Un Festin Sagital – Bajo un Sol Inclemente
2:23:00  T – Endmix
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Eclectic current – For a moment we thought we were home

accidental scary art

Visages Antiques: For Guitar

Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond -
swallows in autumn

Dakotsu Iida trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was chief editor of the poetry journal Unmo until his death. His son Ryuta Iida, a famous haiku poet himself, took over as the editor of Unmo after his father’s death.

Haiku by Ida Dakotsu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotsu_Iida

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

more halF unusuaL

halF swallowS [naviarhaiku595]

sloburneering

flail fail fall

A piece inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne

Orlaya grandiflora

dunes d

I am always glad that you stop by and take the time to come.
Thank you as always.
A circle of peace.
Waves crashing on the shore. An unchanging loop.
When they are calm, they give a sense of security, and when they crash powerfully, they give courage!
Is the sea breeze whispering something? A repeating loop of peace!
As if inviting us, the waves scrape away the sand under our feet along with our memories of the past, urging us to focus on the present!

Loop of Peace

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...

Eclectic current – For a moment we thought we were home

Tuonela

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