the imagined sound that rocks inside a mountain might hear as a rainstorm passes over...

Rocks Inside A MountainListenToTheRainOutside(NaviarHaiku487)

visuals (YouTube) @ https://youtu.be/I0LP8EfY9Lk

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

picture by Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF everywherE [naviarhaiku487]

Made for Naviar Records' 487th Haiku Challenge, Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/03/naviarhaiku487-sound-of-mountain/

Made from treated elements of https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/mountain-puffs-naviarhaiku485   Thanks Ingvar!

Mountain ocean rain cycle [naviarhaiku487]

Naviar mountain naviarhaiku487

An electronic composition, sounds from various sources, including Pure Data.

Sound Everywhere (naviarhaiku487)

5May223

My naviarhaiku 487 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/03/naviarhaiku487-sound-of-mountain/
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Sound of mountain [naviarhaiku 487]

naviarhaiku487

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 10th May 2023
haiku by Sôen Nakagawa
picture by Guillaume de Germain

Everywhere Spring Rain (naviarhaiku487)

Sound Fantasy on:

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Naviar Records Haiku Challenge

Mountain Rain

Mountain Rain_Naviarhaiku487

Nobody knew why a fire watch tower was on that snow swept peak. Too high above the tree line for wild fires, nothing to burn for miles and miles. And nobody was allowed at the top of the tower, except a strange old man who claimed to have night blindness, agoraphobia, AND a fear of heights. Said it made him the only one for the job. But what was that job!?

Blizzard on Mountain XIX

fl studio mobile 
Six lines audio 
edited staggered, pitched, delayed. 
Image of art by Nathan Grimes.
Sounds from the back yard as you trip into view. move or stay still the vibrations move across your sparky brain, like pattering feet through a wave lapped shore... or something like that!

Six Lines Red Skies

Delivered as Ordered

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...

Mountain ocean rain cycle [naviarhaiku487]

Tuonela