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.
- 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

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 #587: paperweights / on the store’s comicbooks – / spring breeze

2Apr25
My naviarhaiku587 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/779706051549380608/naviarhaiku587-paperweights
:D

paperweights [naviarhaiku587]

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson's most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson's haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito: https://rehaanengineer.weebly.com/semi-mechanical-moons-to-accompany-an-edo-period-haiku-by-takai-kit333.html

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

more halF unusuaL

halF comiC [naviarhaiku587]

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

2025-04-03

paperweights ( Naviarhaiku 587 )

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson’s most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson’s haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito

picture by freestocks

Weighing Paper [naviarhaiku587 - paperweights]

An electronic composition created using Pure Data.

Ruffled Pages (naviarhaiku587)

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 587.
Sur un haïku de Takai Kito:

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

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

Windy comics

No. 4 6

First there was https://soundcloud.com/user-260441121/zone-cruiser-directing-demons?in=user-260441121/sets/directing-demons

Then I did this to it, at Zone Feeder's invitation. Twice. This is the combined result, with much accidental stuff left in.

Zone Cruiser - Directing Demons (Tuonela's misdirected mix)

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal
 

Submission deadline: 9th July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Thinking Of Us (NaviarHaiku600)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
600
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

2025-07-03

thinking of us ( Naviarhaiku 600 )

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 03 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 600: Thinking Of Us.

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

by: Andrea Cecon

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life… 

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Ultraviolet & Longing Whisper  (naviarhaiku600)

This track is part of the Naviar Haiku Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku600-thinking-of-us/

Wind through pine trees-sample: Wind pine trees 190307_1313.flac by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/462783/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

among the pines-naviarhaiku600

you know the game - but this time it's the 600th haiku challenge by 
Naviar Records

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

- Andrea Cecon -

wind & pine (naviarhaiku600)

Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start
The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music. 

The chosen text is a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ungaretti),
written in July 1918 in the trenches during the First World War.

Si sta come 
d'autunno 
sugli alberi 
le foglie 

https://www.sololibri.net/Soldati-poesia-Ungaretti-si-sta-come-d-autunno-sugli-alberi.html


I obtained a sequence of 7 notes (AFDGBCE – 9 5 1 7 e 0 4), which I distributed across various sequencers and instruments. In particular, I used several old patches from SampleTank 2/3.

Soldati [disquiet0705]

Welcome to a little deep (haiku) space TidalCycles livecoding play! 😁😜

pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

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).

Haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara: https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/JonesOnIshihara.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

halF milkY [naviarhaiku601]

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)

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

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