Textures and harmonies in resonance with haiku shared by Naviar Records.

Haiku resonances

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

Sound garden I

Tentennamenti sulla corte

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

Diversione

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

Combutta floreale

Interludio color argento

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

Nubi compagne

First autumn song

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.

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.

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

by: Ōshima Ryōta

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

Mount Yoshino (naviarhaiku591)

Kernera saxatilis

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)

Orlaya grandiflora

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.

—

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)

For the 603rd haiku from @naviar-records. 

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

insect tremolo 
soberingly cools the heat 
of farmland roads

by: Kogetsu Eguchi

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

The heat of farmlands roads (naviarhaiku603)

For the 603rd haiku from @naviar-records. 

In spring sunlight the rose of tea bushes ripple like waves

by: Tōge Morita

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

Tea bushes (naviarhaiku604)

Made for the haiku challenge 607 of Naviar records.

Winter waterfall a rock untouched by sunrise or sunset

by: Setsuko Nozawa

Setsuko Nozawa (1920–1995) was a poet from Yokohama. Inspired by the works of Bashō and Rinka Ōno, she started writing haiku in the 1930s, joined the magazine Shakunagein 1939, and later moved to Hama in 1946. Later in life, she dedicated herself fully to poetry and ikebana, and in 1971 she founded the haiku magazine Ran, later directed by Kōzaburō Wada.

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

Winter waterfall (naviarhaiku607)

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)

This time the tree came out after playing.

Cedrus libani

Made for the haiku challenge 609 of Naviar records.

revealing in the dark the sadness of things a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

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

Thank you Marco!

A fisherman's torch (naviarhaiku609)

Made for the haiku challenge 610 of Naviar records.

dropped glass - its ring outlasts the fall  
Thank you halF unusuaL for offering this haiku!

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

The fall (naviarhaiku610)

Made for the haiku challenge 611 of Naviar records.

half-asleep eyes open to a dreamlike world of blossoms

by: Natsume Seibi

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. 

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

Blossoms (naviarhaiku611)

A piece inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne.

Cyclamen hederifolium

Made for the haiku challenge 612 of Naviar records.

faring over the lake drawing the light an autumn butterfly  
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).

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

An automn butterfly (naviarhaiku612)

Made for the haiku challenge 613 of Naviar records.

Star above the peak - a silk worm-breeding village silently asleep

by: Mizuhara Shuoshi

Mizuhara Shuoshi was a 20th century Japanese poet. Shuoshi rebelled against the principles of emotional detachment in haiku, which he thought limited his ability to emotionally express himself through poetry: he started a magazine called Staggerbush which focused on a more romantic, lyrical type of haiku.

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

Star above the peak (naviarhaiku613)

A drone-based piece made for the haiku challenge 614 of Naviar records.

The coming of autumn determined by a red dragonfly

by: Kaya Shirao

Kaya Shirao was born in 1738 in Fukagawa, Edo, now part of Tokyo.
He ran a school in Edo during Spring and Autumn, but in Summer and Winter, he would move to the countryside to teach thousands of aspiring poets from throughout the Shinano province (now Nagano Prefecture). He's considered one of the first established haikai writers to help spread cultural forms from national to regional urban centers.

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

Red Dragonfly (naviarhaiku614)

Made for the haiku challenge 615 of Naviar records.

reminding me not to forget a toad goes out to the verdant world

by: Fusae Fubasami

Fusae Fubasami (1914–2014) was a Japanese poet from Tokyo. In 1944, she became associated with Dakotsu Īda and the haiku journal Unmo (雲母), later joining Yatsuka Ishihara’s group Aki (“Autumn”) in 1961.

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

To the verdant world (naviarhaiku615)

Made for the haiku challenge 617 of Naviar records.

an autumn nightfall the skeleton of a huge fish drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

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

By the sea (naviarhaiku617)

Made for the haiku challenge 618 of Naviar records.

the harp player moves under cover market day

by: kjmunro

kjmunro cultivates poetry on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. She founded & facilitates ‘solstice haiku', a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, & manages a weekly blog feature for The Haiku Foundation called Haiku Dialogue. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, & her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).

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

The harp player (naviarhaiku618)

Made for the haiku challenge 621 of Naviar records.

Deutzia in full white - deep in the night, the Milky Way. 

Haiku by Ikenishi Gonsui

Ikenishi Gonsui (1650–1722) was a haiku poet from Nara who settled permanently in Kyoto in 1684. A collection of his works, entitled Ikenishi Gonsui no kenkyū, was published in 2003.

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

In the night, the Milky Way (naviarhaiku621)

In dialogue with sound and resonances within ambient-drone, minimalism, and post-rock. Playing guitar and using pedals, with occasional field recordings. Recorded without digital post-production, to preserve the immediate determinations.

Daniele Marx

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