Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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)”

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- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
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haiku #586: fog dissolves to rain - / cool breezes clear the vista, / showing cloud-topped hills

Prompted by and in response to:

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

Naviar haiku challenge 583, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Not as I envisaged at the outset owing to a lucky experiment and a willingness to got with the flow. All the base sounds are generated in virtual modular using VCV Rack with split outputs allowing multitrack recording. I had planned on using the Deelay plugin from Sixth Sample and while I was tweaking the settings put it into chaos mode as an experiment, not what I wanted but more suitable for this track, saved some VCV patching.  With the other elements in place I set up physical controls and did a test run to get an idea of what to patch next. After what would have been the opening ran to over six minutes I decided that with a couple of tweaks I had enough for a take, more minimal and slower evolving than my original idea but probably suits the haiku better. I used a touch of Frostbite 2 from Audio Thing to add some texture to the opening.

Early Morning Light - (naviarhaiku - 583)

This week's response to the @naviar-records haiku challenge uses elements of sound design I've created for zack mennell's "Rage Reactor" performance installation which they will be realising in Liverpool's Dadafest this week: https://www.dadafest.co.uk/event/ddfi40-rage-reactor

"heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down"

Kajiwara Hashin was born in 1864 and studied under Kyoshi. Although Hashin is not very well-known as a poet, this particular haiku that he wrote is quite popular worldwide: it was first translated by Miyamori Asataro and later by R. H. Blyth.

Haiku by Kajiwara Hashin

Extract of picture by Simon Berger

Submission deadline: 19th March 2025

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

neither snow (naviarhaiku584)

Bowed basses and cellos (harmonics, fx and sustained notes)
Composed and performed by DD in Paris 27/March/2025.

Inspired by this haiku

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

Poem by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Casey Horner

@naviar-records
@ray_cobley

Fog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)

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)

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

Fog Dissolves (naviarhaiku586)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 586

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

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

 

haiku by Raymond Cobley

picture by Inggrid Koe
 

Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

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

Grey &amp; Cold

Grey & Cold (naviarhaiku586)

29Mar25
My naviarhaiku586 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/779084554596139009/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain
:D

fog dissolves to rain [naviarhaiku586]

An electronic composition created using Pure Data.

Ruffled Pages (naviarhaiku587)

ran dom play

A selection of eclectic short works that were previously unpublished.

08 Tozmevoco was created using processed voice samples from Tom Ze's "Jogos De Armar (Faça Você Mesmo) [Bonus Disc]". Thank you, Tom Ze!

14 Nutsirl Fichusytus

Dedicated to those who oppose.
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All sounds - including the music - were recorded during a rally against evictions, gentrification and police violence in Berlin on May 28, 2025.
Recording, editing, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. 
Image: Police gather near the rally (Photo: VSS).
Spoken words at 2:48 (English translation): 
For every house evicted, there will be new occupations. For every killing, the cops will pay the price. We are here in firm determination and solidarity and we are showing that we will not be defeated. Get active! We don't have much to lose - but we have our freedom to gain.
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More Resistambient: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/la-police

Those Were The Days

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
598
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku598-after-the-typhoon/

after the typhoon (Naviarhaiku 598)

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)

Kloster Kamp-Linfort

RN. From the album Flight of the Airborne Phantom.

Bandcamp: https://linakamura.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5JJaCP2DNoIXagSqLAWfhF
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwtEnI7bNM
Find More Here: linktr.ee/linakamura

Composed and Produced by linakamura
Artwork/photography by linakamura
Released August 17th, 2025

Flight of the Airborne Phantom

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.

Fog dissolves to rain (naviarhaiku586)

Daniele Marx

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