Haiku resonances

Music inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne. [started in April 2025]

Musical Garden

Drone / ambient / post-rock / minimal / experimenting with guitar and pedals, directly recorded with a Zoom recorder (sol)

Combutta floreale

Drone / ambient / post-rock / minimal / experimenting with guitar and pedals, directly recorded with a Zoom recorder (la#)

Sospeso tra familiari spazi

Sostanza e attesa

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

www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/.

Thank you NAVIAR RECORDS.

Mount Asama (naviarhaiku579)

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records. 
A two-note bell ringing above a flowery meadow.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

Thank you NAVIAR RECORDS.

Quiescence (naviarhaiku580)

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

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku581-plunging-my-hand/

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

Thank you NAVIAR RECORDS.

25.02.2025

The lake (naviarhaiku581)

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

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

Thank you Marco.

28.02.2025

Wild violets (naviarhaiku582)

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

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku583-out-of-the-blue/

out of the blue
of early morning light:
a paulownia leaf

Early morning light (naviarhaiku 583)

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

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/

Thank you Marco!

Snow fluttering down (naviarhaiku584)

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

a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku585-a-splash-of-colour/

Thank you Marco.

Cherry tree petals (naviarhaiku585)

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

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/

Thank you Marco.

Fog dissolves to rain (naviarhaiku586)

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

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku587-paperweights/

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

by: Takai Kito

Spring breeze (naviarhaiku587)

A piece inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne

Globularia nudicaulis

Ranunculus gramineus

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

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

by: Saitō Sanki

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable/

The past, immutable (naviarhaiku588)

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)

A simple piece inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne

Pulsatilla vulgaris

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

steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!

by: Ōshima Ryōta

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Mount Yoshino (naviarhaiku591)

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

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear

by: Marc Sheridan

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/

Thanks to Marco Sebastiano Alessi from Naviar records.

The forest (naviarhaiku592)

Kernera saxatilis

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

cloud and mist alike
rendered unnoticeable –
bright moon tonight!

by: Inawashiro Kensai

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku593-cloud-and-mist-alike/

Bright moon tonight (naviarhaiku593)

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

caged bird
glaring with envious eyes
at butterflies!

by: Kobayashi Issa

Thanks to Marco of naviar records for sharing this inspiring poem!

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird/

Caged bird (naviarhaiku594)

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

Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond -
swallows in autumn

by: Dakotsu Īda

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku595-under-the-twilight-sky/

Thank you Marco from naviar records.

Light shimmering on the pond (naviarhaiku595)

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

spring dream… not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

by: Konishi Raizan

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/

Spring dream (naviarhaiku596)

Orlaya grandiflora

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

orchids by night – within their fragrance looms their blossoms’ white!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

Orchids by night (naviarhaiku597)

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

after the typhoon I walk around alone - sunshine everywhere

by: Hosomi Ayako

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku598-after-the-typhoon/

Sunshine everywhere (naviarhaiku598)

A piece inspired and played around the botanical garden in Lausanne

Helianthemum alpestre

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

rain rituals - 
if the gods are here now 
to see the paddies
 
by: Takarai Kikaku

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

Rain rituals (naviarhaiku599)

« Among the pines » is my contribution for the 600th haiku proposed by naviar records:

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

by: Andrea Cecon

I take this opportunity to thank Marco Sebastiano Alessi of naviar records for setting up this wonderful adventure.

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https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.

Among the pines (naviarhaiku600)

For the 601th haiku proposed by Naviar records: 

pulling light from the other world . . . the Milky Way
 
by: Yatsuka Ishihara

Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

Pulling light (naviarhaiku601)

Somewhere between drone, minimalism, experimental, post-rock and sometimes field recordings. 
I’m open to any collaboration or project with other musicians.

Daniele Marx

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