using 20 resonance tones I recorded on a toy piano and acoustic guitar, I've responded to this week's @naviar-haiku music challenge, of which you can find details about here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Haiku by Fuhaku

Extract of picture by Ming Han Low

bell's voice (naviarhaiku580)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0686: Catch Your Breath. The Assignment: Listen to yourself inhale and exhale; make music from what you sense.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0686 discussion thread on Lines:

Lately, I’ve been thinking of experimenting with music that could evoke the empty, transitional, surreal, and perhaps eerie aesthetics of liminal spaces. This week’s prompt about breathing seemed like it would make for an interesting soundscape if combined with that vibe. 

This was produced in Ableton Live 12 using Slate + Ash Spectres Multisample. Two tracks were created using a MIDI keyboard, with built-in effects. Additional atmospheric tracks were added from various field recording samples that were recorded last week.

More on the 686th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Catch Your Breath — The Assignment: Listen to yourself inhale and exhale; make music from what you sense — at https://disquiet.com/0686/

Negative Breathing Space [disquiet0686]

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

SONG 74 - Naviarhaiku581

drum and bass beats, melodies, and textural samples from several different companies (ethereal 2080, shaman stems, glitched tones, touch loops, undrgrnd sounds), two tracks of live guitar, one synth melody (arturia pigments) and one channel of morse code ("plunging my hand into the lake... billowing clouds") played on a group of randomly triggered small cymbals at 170bpm. the track closes with a sample of toluca lake.

[naviarhaiku581] into the lake

Solo work. Electric guitar, baritone guitar, drums. All recorded at different sessions then layered together afterwards. On baritone guitar I was exploring with snare resonance. I put a small snare on top of the guitar cabinet.

Writing in General

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 & Cold (naviarhaiku586)

SIGNAL / BIRD

2025-04-02

places without water

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
587
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku587-paperweights/

2025-04-03

paperweights ( Naviarhaiku 587 )

Wild geese fly north



Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 591.
Sur un haïku de Ōshima Ryōta:

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

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


Spring rains

Anne Versailles

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