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

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

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Tenor sax, photo theremin, reverb, echo. 

Drawing/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 9 Apr 2018, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “The Reason That Nobody Cares About” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0688: Sign Up. The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688

The Reason That Nobody Cares About (disquiet0688)

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

Construction work (disquiet0688)

If I was better at 'social' media' stuff, I'd be making a bigger fuss of this 1,000th upload! 🎉 

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: https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2013/10/butterfly-dream-falling-snow-haiku-by.html

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

more halF unusuaL

halF neitheR [naviarhaiku584]

An electronic sequence created using Pure Data, a touch of reverb added.

Fluttering Snow (naviarhaiku584)

After watching the wonderful TV series "In My Skin", I tried to compose a track to match this touching story. While playing the piano melody on my midi keyboard, I recorded the mechanical sounds of the keys using a smartphone and a dictaphone.
This recording approach was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project, but doesn't follow that prompt closely.
These recordings (treated with various effects) were mixed with the piano, and strings and synth sounds were added to the track, all to support the guiding emotion drawn from the story.

More on the 689th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Supporting Players — The Assignment: Elevate the presence of your non-instrument equipment — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

In My Skin - the Sound of Sound  (Disquiet0689)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 14 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects

This original version of "Never Burn" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 584, Heaven And Earth

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

by: Kajiwara Hashin

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.

Drawing/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Mar 2017, West 46th St, NYC, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

#soundart #naviarhaiku #naviarhaiku584 #experimentalmusic #heaven #electronicmusic #sounddesign #ableton #burn #earth

Never Burn (naviarhaiku584)

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/

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 )

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0690/

disquiet0690

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

release date  25-03-2025   Haiku and pic by: Marc Sheridan

Silently falling (naviarhaiku585)

three 90s jungle beats, all slowed to 128bpm, switch out across two channels

morse code plays the phrase "fog dissolves to rain" on ableton's "EFX Small Cymbal" rack

four granular soundbeds

a melody i played through three sampled instruments (upright bass, piano, guitarophone)

one atmospheric drone from the "though-forms" patreon

mary says "maybe tomorrow"

[naviarhaiku586] clear the vista

https://soundcloud.com/user-941288896-491859901
https://soundcloud.com/noisered
https://soundcloud.com/isonomia

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

Silently falling (naviarhaiku585)

Euclidean~~~

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