this is a sketch of mine from 2020, before i was releasing any music as marine eyes. i recently shared this on bandcamp via my new collection 'lessons in letting go: sketches + b-sides'

find that here: https://marineeyes.bandcamp.com/album/lessons-in-letting-go-sketches-b-sides

thanks for listening <3

triggers

This week's haiku challenge:

I write, erase, rewrite
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms.

Haiku by Tachibana Hokushi

Submission deadline: 11th September 2024

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

I write, erase, rewrite (naviarhaiku557)

Skies

Taken from "Sunlight Was Peeled Away"
Out on 8.11.2024 on Shimmering Moods 
Pre orders now available: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Liz Helman and Darren McClure formed Longswarm in the summer of 2023, after randomly being brought together on another project. Residing in different parts of the globe, England and Japan respectively, their collaborations involve file exchanging and developing a shared soundpool of ideas that gradually build into finished pieces. Sunlight Was Peeled Away is the second album by the duo and consists of processed field recordings, ambient drones and smudged textures. 

Artists Biographies 

Liz Helman is a London based multi-disciplinary artist, working in time-based media. Her work, both visual and sonic, is a response to place and environment. By walking the streets, and experiencing different levels of sounds, she begins her process with field recordings, making immersive and mesmerising drone based compositions that explore layers of sound and texture. She very much likes working organically, following the thread of the sound to its ultimate destination, which she likes to think of as sonic alchemy. 

She has also released solo and collaborative work on a number of labels including Flaming Pines, Shimmering Moods, Midira Records and Kohlenstoff. 


Darren McClure is from Northern Ireland, now living in Matsumoto, Japan. His audio work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere. Sound sources are both analogue and digital, hardware and software, incorporating found sounds and field recordings to lend an organic, tactile quality to the material. His main intent is to create music to zone out to and zone into, a balance of widescreen drones and more minimal, abstract ambience. 

He has released solo and collaborative work on a number of labels, including Dragons Eye, Glistening Examples, Shimmering Moods and n5MD. His music has also been used in conjunction with video artwork and documentary shorts. 

Releases November 8, 2024 

All sounds by Liz Helman and Darren McClure. 
Thanks to Paul and Shimmering Moods. 

SHM 318 
Shimmering Moods 2024

Longswarm - Highway To The Orange Sky

This week's haiku challenge:

telegraph pole
toppled down by
the tempest

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki

Submission deadline: 13th November 2024

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

Toppled by the Tempest (naviarhaiku566)

telegraph pole
toppled down by
the tempest

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki



Toppled (naviarhaiku566)

Monochrome

stray dog

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Natsume Sōseki’s poem “Fog clears away: / the waterfall shows up / bit by bit”.

Tracklist:

Stan Magendanz - Fog clears away https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/fog-clears-away-naviarhaiku564
Night Note - Fog Clears Away https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/fog-clears-away-naviarhaiku-564
Marco Lucchi - The waterfall https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/marco-lucchi-the-waterfall-naviar-haiku-564
Mr_Lamppost - Fog Clears Away https://soundcloud.com/mr_lamppost/fog-clears-away-naviarhaiku-564
Voidborn Horde - Endless Descent https://soundcloud.com/voidbornhorde/endless-descent-naviarhaiku564


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #344 - Fog clears away... – Wednesday 6th November 2024

Created in response to:

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Naviar Haiku challenge 580, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I used a combination of the probabilistic generative instrument Ongaku from Giorgio Sancristoforo; https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net Ongaku is just over half way down the page. And Voltage Modular from Cherry Audio: https://cherryaudio.com/products/voltage-modular I experimented with running Voltage as a plugin which allowed me to run it in parallel with Ongaku and make a single "Live" performance, the downside to this was that I couldn't assign physical controls, all mouse and window flipping.

The bell samples used at the beginning and which reappear later processed through granular synthesis and multiple delays are my own recordings.  

Quiescence-(naviarhaiku-580)

Quiet Bean Ritual Piano

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

I write, erase, rewrite (naviarhaiku557)

undermulden