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haiku #590: dreadful the stream / without so much as a name! / early-summer rains

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 23 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths & effects.

This original version of "Downstream Procrastination" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 590: Dreadful The Stream.

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

by: Yosa Buson

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 28 Jun 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA on the edge of the woods. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Downstream Procrastination (naviarhaiku590)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Nameless Stream (naviarhaiku590)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
590
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream/

2025-04-26

dreadful the stream ( Naviarhaiku 590 )

26Apr25
My naviarhaiku590 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/781632883124224001/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream
:D

early summer rains [naviarhaiku590]

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream/

Thank you Marco.

Dreadful the stream (naviarhaiku590)

an immersive sound environment created in voltage modular
(Thanks to the SpaceDog Kennel for a creative milieu to play in)

Streaming In The Rain_NAVIARHAIKU590

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku599-rain-rituals/

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku

Picture by Ritz

KiKaKuKaKi [ naviarhaiku599 ]

Lights In The Storm

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project: The barcode of the softcover Penguin edition of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was used as the timeline for the rhythm, and the track was created with this beat as inspiration.
The other elements followed, found through intuition or happy accidents.
The result is a far groovier track than I initially assumed.

More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/

Thinking Fast and Slow (Disquiet0712)

29Aug25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793036834183725056/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses
😊

not yet bent in any direction [naviarhaiku608]

Spell

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

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.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

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

SONG 118 - NaviarHaiku608 - Young Grasses

ARCTIC   BIRDS    3    -   2025

An electronic composition with dense and muted sounds created using Pure Data with additional reverb, delay, etc.

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/.





Fog Muffles (disquiet0716)

half-asleep eyes
open to a dreamlike world
of blossoms

Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Picture by Pascal Bullan

beryl mossed wools - naviarhaiku611

So Glad You Found Him

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Streaming In The Rain_NAVIARHAIKU590

mike shockley

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