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)”

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.
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haiku #585: a splash of colour / cherry tree petals / drifting silently falling

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data with a little additional reverb, etc.

Lake and Billowing Cloud (naviarhaiku581)

22Feb25

My naviarkaiku581 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/775918753583153152/naviarhaiku581-plunging-my-hand
:D

plunging my hand into the lake [naviarhaiku581]

Part of the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

SONG 74 - Naviarhaiku581

The prompt for this track:

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

Naviar Haiku Challenge 581,details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A fair amount of experimentation with ways to represent the haiku, some more successful and obvious than others, the rippling sequence is more inspired by the image than the poem but I kept it in to move the music forward.

Other than the samples, sourced from freesound:

rowing boat from inside.wav by Fenodyrie -- https://freesound.org/s/588307/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
oar.wav by bruno.auzet -- https://freesound.org/s/525030/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Everything was made in virtual modular using a combination of VCV Rack and Voltage Modular.  Running VM as a plugin allowed me to run both in parallel and make a single take multitrack recording. 

Billowing Clouds - (naviarhaiku - 581)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
583
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku583-out-of-the-blue/

2025-03-05

out of the blue (Naviarhaiku 583)

My submission for the NaviarHaiku Challenge #583. More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Field recording attribution:
1) ermine - 'ambswmp-westhay-moor-nature-reserve-early-morning-ambience'
2) WWAudio - 'water trickling in an outlet of a hillside stream with birdsong'

Early Morning Light - naviarhaiku 583

NaviarHaïku 583

D'après le poème de Ōshima Ryōta (période Edo)

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

Out of the blue (naviarhaïku583)

Naviarhaïku584

D'après le poème de Kajiwara Hashin (1864 - ?)

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from 
snow fluttering down

Image: Simon Berger

Snowscape (naviarhaïku584)

a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling

Marc Sheridan is an ever-curious person who loves what is just around the corner: the unusual and the mysterious. Even everyday objects and scenes can always be viewed differently.

He is English but currently living in the US, and he always remembers what Ansel Adams once said, "You don't take a photograph, you make it." Marc believes that photography rewards him with a greater connection to everything around him.

Lately, Marc has been writing haiku, but he's not sure whether he illustrates his photos with haiku or reveals his haiku through photography.

He has been published in numerous magazines in the US and the UK and has exhibited up and down the West Coast of the US for the past 23 years.

Haiku by Marc Sheridan: https://bsky.app/profile/northernvoodoo.bsky.social

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

more halF unusuaL

halF colouR [naviarhaiku585]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
585
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku585-a-splash-of-colour/

2025-03-20

a splash of colour (Naviarhaiku 585 )

An electronic composition created in Pure Data, a touch of reverb added.

Drifting Petals (naviarhaiku585)

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)

[naviarhaiku585] falling

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 585.
Sur un haïku de Marc Sheridan:

a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling

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

Falling petals

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)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
588
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku588-the-past-immutable/

2025-04-10

The past, immutable  (Naviarhaiku 588 )

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

Falling petals

Anne Versailles

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