No Return point

A selection of eclectic short works that were previously unpublished.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!

13 Blackbird Pie

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

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.

Haiku by Kogetsu Eguchi

Picture by Luca Ercolani

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This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
603
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

2025-07-23

insect tremolo (Naviarhaiku (603)

Faint yet clear (naviarhaiku606)

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

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

SONG 118 - NaviarHaiku608 - Young Grasses

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ES GESCHIEHT EINFACH

Dreamy Blossoms (naviarhaiku611)

The shore recedes as we approach

Using the Oblique Strategies card deck app (based on Eno and Schmidt, 1975), I drew "humility of intentions" and "organic machinery."
I used my Orba 2 (pictured, at right) , which is a handheld synth, but it is really a bit of a toy. (I also have an orba 1, which only uses factory settings- but like the Orba 2 can also be a midi controller. I don't have an Orba 3, which also has a microphone onboard). The Orba 2 allows me to use my own files create an 8-part set in the drum track, plus takeovers in the bass, lead and chorus tracks. It has a litte speaker on the bottom which is not bad at all. Organic machinery: my voice.

Humble: silly improv. But it is a portable toy that I have used in performance and I like it.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

disquiet0727 Orba and me

Sound artist and poet - American, living in the North of France. Member of Muzzix Collective.

disquiet0727 Orba and me

Marjorie Van Halteren

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