Made for Naviar Records' 462nd Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/11/09/naviarhaiku462-icarus/ for details and other inspirations.

Icarus suspended [naviarhaiku462]

Commissioned and performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective

Part of a project called 'Five Uncertain Situations' with Prague City Gallery. Exhibition and concert at Dům U kamenného zvonu (Stone Bell House), Old Town Square, Prague in December 2022.

Bass clarinet - Anna Paulová
Baritone electric guitar - Ian Mikyska
Violin - Milan Jakeš
Double bass - Luan Goncalves

Mixed by Juraj Mišejka

This piece was written in response to a set of photograms from Aleksandra Vajd’s The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, which features two parallel lines, each changing colour halfway. To me this work is about things in flux, things moving toward or away from something else. In my piece, I am interested in how players might focus on periods of instability and change within and between sounds. By leaving the score more open, I hope to provide more space for the players to follow their curiosity and their ears, to be responsive to the sounds and to each other in the moment. - SL

"Sylvia’s piece is a rare occurrence: a simple, relatively undefined score that does not provide instructions for formal development over the entirety of the piece, yet immediately, the first time we rehearsed it, it was clear that the piece had a clear-cut character and a complex web of internal relationships. The simplicity and directness of Vajd’s photograms is here transformed into a focus on all the chaotic and noisy shadows, interferences, and byproducts that appear when players are tasked with exploring well-chosen, fluctuating effects and various transitions between them. Here, instability is always present at multiple levels — perhaps we could even speak of an interaction between instabilities, a dusty sonic layer covering the simple material play of the photograms." - Ian Mikyska

Overlapping Transformations (2022)

For the last week in #lumbungradio, Vía de Acceso founders share their own mixes, livestreamings, a recent dj set by @ois-agver and a track by track album premiere by @enternetboy exclusive for this project. Thanks to all whom support and were part of this experience ❤️: https://lumbungradio.stationofcommons.org

Cois Agver

Via de Acceso presenta: Cois Agver Mix #1 x Lumbung Radio

13th track off my latest full-length album, "Relics." OUT NOW ON MOST MAJOR PLATFORMS!!

Platypus Police

Air Bubbles

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by 
Catherine LoFrumento’s poem “morning glow / buttercups flutter / at the forest’s edge”


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/31/naviarhaiku491-morning-glow/


Tracklist:


undermulden - Forest's Edge
Jesús Lastra - morning glow
Night Note - Morning Glow
Ed Mundio - AtTheForest'sEdge
zenbytes - morning glow
ikjoyce - Morning Glow


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

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/

Platypus Police

PIGEONS and RAMEN