All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on X, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

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haiku #594: caged bird / glaring with envious eyes / at butterflies!

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear
(Marc Sheridan)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/
Komposition1068 Klavier

slanting /naviarhaiku592/

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)

caged bird
glaring with envious eyes
at butterflies!
 

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa: http://haikuguy.com/issa/search.php

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

more halF unusuaL

halF cageD [naviarhaiku594]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 21 May 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Operating Alongside The Existing Scratch" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 594: Caged Bird.

caged bird
glaring with envious eyes
at butterflies!

by: Kobayashi Issa

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 14 Feb 2014, Penn Station, NYC, NY, USA & 13 Feb 2025

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Operating Alongside The Existing Scratch (naviarhaiku594)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Envy (naviarhaiku594)

23May25
My naviarhaiku594 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/784155891514605568/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird
:D

caged bird [naviarhaiku594]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
594
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird/

2025-05-25

caged bird (Naviarhaiku 594)

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)

Ronrocos (x4), orchestral soundscapes.
for this haiku:

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

by Dakotsu Iida
Photo by Aron Gestsson

naviarhaiku595

Under the twilight sky (naviarhaiku595)

Sound Ripples is a sound installation by Marco Sebastiano Alessi, created for the Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio. Inspired by the cultural legacy of the Ainu people, Alessi and members of the online music community Naviar Records reflected on the roots of their own local traditions, and created sounds inspired by the landscapes and stories of their respective environments.
Combining field recordings from across Japan, ambient compositions by Naviar Records’ community, and sounds captured during Alessi’s time in Sapporo, this installation invites listeners to experience sound as a vessel of memory, transmission, and transformation.
This immersive experience aims to highlight the importance of music as a connector that brings cultures into dialogue: a medium that transcends space and time to build bridges between distant communities.

Sound Ripples sound installation

The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces — at disquiet.com/0701/

Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (1909) 2. Mässig

Musescore Midi file.

Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (Pollini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTFxbsVGrI

4 sequencers (Reaktor Rhosyn - Polyrhythmic Sequencer Block)
4 instruments (Piano, Synplant, Derailer, Visco (drum machine)

Reaper FX

Doubles [disquiet0701]

I 'misused' Microsoft Word to create this ... see the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/6dIBIYtLmE4 ... and hear the 'spinoff' track at https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-akjhdjsdmnn ... I think you'll agree, it's the best use of the word akjhdjsd,mnn to date ... 😁😜 ... Oh, and lead vocals by the Word robot! 🤖

This project is the second of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain”: “Chains connect but they also bind. They create relationships but also restrictions. As a gift they look nice, feared when used in vice, and yet they can span bridges across fire and ice.” All three Junto projects will engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.

We are working again at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the seventh year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

visuals (YouTube)

halF wrotE [disquiet0702]

I use Logic, especially with Arturia’s V collection as my go to software synth and recording experience. My first step was to create a pleasant, if rather banal, arrangement with an arpeggiator preset on the CS-80 emulation, accompanied by an ambient wash thanks to Arturia’s “voices” engine. Then I messed with the buses, sending inputs to inputs, outputs to outputs and creating such a horrible feedback loop that I almost blew out my headphones. The resultant cacophony was not really listenable, even if imagine as belonging to the genre of noise music. It was mess of distorted glitches, high pitched wailing and intermittent period of silence when my processor simply decided that it had enough.  To tame the mess, I imported the file into a new Logic session, massaged it vigorously with granular and time stretching effects, with a bit of panning and considerable volume control. The result, I think, can now be listened to without incurring ear damage. 

disquiet0702

A question floating in the air.  instagram.com/vultumusic blends ethereal vocals with ambient textures, like a dream you’re not ready to wake from.

vultu - what i am now

Dystopia  Untergang

“A Kindness” is a short ambient suite tracing the residue of memory, soft gestures, and quiet absurdities. From the scent of wet earth to a lullaby lost mid-sentence, it leaves you in a stillness that lingers.

Just In

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

Somewhere between drone, minimalism, experimental, post-rock and sometimes field recordings. Without computer editing.

Caged bird (naviarhaiku594)

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