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- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
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haiku #608: young grasses - / not yet bent / in any direction

September 2025 picks

The voices of dispersed and desperate peoples in search of a land, of their own home, of personal dignity and serenity.

Suspiria -  Moans And Sighs Of The People

Remnant

Saponaria - Fleursonseaux
All rights reserved - © Copyright

Saponaria

Oleander - Fleursonseaux
All rights reserved - © Copyright

Oleander

Life and Light

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
608

2025-08-28

young grasses  (Naviarhaiku 608)

Electric bass
Real drums
Drum program.
Organ
Synthesisers


Slow mysterious groove, going in any direction between abstract, bass and drums slow jam, trip hop, etc.


@naviar-records

naviarhaiku 608:
for this haiku:

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

poem: by Kaga no Chiyo
artwork: my photo of a work by Mathias Cherqui

in any direction (naviarhaiku608)

Made for the haiku challenge 607 of Naviar records.

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

by: Kaga no Chiyo

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Not yet bent (naviarhaiku608)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Green Shoots (naviarhaiku608)

Young grasses (naviarhaiku608)

One of Rolf Kasten's Playertron Stochastic patches for Voltage Modular( included with his Signal Path magazine) provided a firm foundation on which I was able to build the piece. I manipulated probabilities, bpm, pitch, as well as adding reverb using Waverley's Quadelay. I then applied some finishing touches in Reaper.
Another product of what I've learned about bringing creations to fruition in the SpaceDog's Kennel

not yet bent_Naviar Haiku 608

mike shockley