All submissions to Haiku 305:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/11/06/naviarhaiku305-walking-the-sky/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- Publish your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku145)”

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #305: Walking the sky / a clear moon / all alone

Arc hole  (disquiet0675)

For Disquiet Junto 0675, "Arc of the Drone", we were invited to record a drone piece that began and ended simply but had a complex middle.

For this one I brought in the whole NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab orchestra. The main drone is from a tortured Nave wavetable, and the motion pads are courtesy of an Alchemy synth. There are also a few layers of vocal samples, some field recordings, shortwave radio, and two layers of ebow guitar. I think people should be able to dance to drones so I put a simple "grimy 909" kick at the bottom of the stack to keep things moving.

The title of the piece refers to the poem "The Devil of Pope Fig Island" by 17th century fabulist Jean de la Fontaine. The cover image is from an 1896 illustration by Charles Eisen, depicting the climactic scene in which an inhabitant of the bedeviled island chases Lucifer off for good by flashing her vulva at him.

Best enjoyed with headphones.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0675

The Devil of Pope Fig Island (disquiet0675)

More on the 675th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Arc of the Drone — The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple — at https://disquiet.com/0675/

Anna's Song(Tabu Remix Of Anna Von Hausswolff - Evocation)disquiet0675

Nothing like a good drone to pass a winter's day. My go to instruments for droning are the Arp 2600 and the Buchla Easel, both of which were tuned to the same pitch. I let them drone on, playing with the resonance, timbre and filter controls as time went by. A third channel was recorded with the two routed through the Cosmos and the "cinema everything" patch on the Zoia. Once in Logic, further effects were added, notably Arturia's Motion and Fragments, along with a lot of panning and faders going up and down. The result is, well a drone, best heard on headphones while under a blanket. 

disquiet0675

Disquiet Junto Project 0675: Arc of the Drone
The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.

A few years ago, I was addicted to drones. I stopped doing it because I felt I had nothing more to say with it. So it was fun to make one again. It's a single note from a single synthesizer, of course, and the complexity is added by half a dozen of different parameter modifiers on the synth and some fx. I want to mention that this is not the first time I've asked myself: What is complexity? For one thing, certainly the absence of simplicity and the presence of information. This somehow led me to use a bitcrusher for the first draft. I started with fewer bits, because simple means less information, and then allow more bits, which means more information thus more complexity. The result shows listeners how stupid the idea was, and not just because the reverb was behind the bitcrusher. The artefacts of the lower bit rates at the beginning and end seem to increase the complexity, ore something else. So at the end it may not sound like it's going from simple to complex to simple, but it actually is. For me, it was a strange adventure, but I like the result.

More on the 675th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Arc of the Drone — The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple — at https://disquiet.com/0675/

Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0675-arc-of-the-drone/69838

A# [disquiet0675]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0675: Arc of the Drone.
The assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0675 discussion thread on Lines:

Tried to create a ambient drone that subtly transitioned from simple to complex to simple. Hopefully that came across in this piece.  

Created in Ableton Live using Slate + Ash Primaries/Strings, Madrona Labs Sumu, and Amazing Noises Grain Scanner soft instruments. Delay in Ableton along with Phonolyth Cascade reverb were the effects used. Image by Pawel Czerwinski via Unplash. 

More on the 675th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Arc of the Drone — The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple — at https://disquiet.com/0675/

Cascading Arc [disquiet0675]

Track notes are here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0675-arc-of-the-drone/69838/23

**Disquiet Junto Project 0675: Arc of the Drone**  
The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.

Step 1: You may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.

Step 2: Now think about what makes a drone simple and what makes a drone complex.

Step 3: Now record a piece of drone music that begins simple, gets complex, and then gets simple again. And note: The simple drone at the end needn’t necessarily be the same sort of drone with which the piece opens.

Disquiet_Junto_0675] Short Dazzle

Drone. Oh... Disquiet0675

almartinez
Dec 2024

Inspiration:

Any prog with an organ will do!

Credit:

Ángel L. Martínez: electronics

Chords:

A & Badd9

An arc of the drone represents the path that seeks a beginning and, through the long notes, seeks an end, even if it does not resemble the beginning, with the “arc” as that moment a musician is open to the journey where there is now knowledge of the beginning and the intent to know the end. And the intent may not even manifest in how the drone ends.


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Mapa (disquiet0675)

based around a synth pad from the PS1 game "fluid". i added some lightly hand-edited dub drum loops, and later programmed a second kit to play call and response with the dub drums. a bass pulse was added to keep things moving. the "2001 space" patch from newfangled audio's generate synth was layered in, as was an improvised lead piano line. textural samples from mode audio and another PS1 game, "silent hill", help thicken the atmosphere. some quiet volume-faded guitar emerges before the closing vinyl slowdown effect (unfiltered audio's needlepoint vst).

[naviarhaiku583] out of the blue

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
305 week haiku
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2019-11-07

Walking the sky ( Naviarhaiku 305 )

naviarhaiku305: walking the sky

Arpentant le ciel,
Une lune dégagée
Seule.

(Haiku de Ogiwara Seisensui)

空をあゆむ朗朗と月ひとり (naviarhaiku305)

naviarhaiku305

Walking the sky
a clear moon
all alone

Ogiwara Seisensui was a Japanese haiku poet active during the Taishō and Showa periods of Japan. He started the school of free haiku which made Ozaki Hōsai and Taneda Santoka popular. In 1911 Seisensui, with the support of Kawahigashi Hekigodo (1873-1937), founded the literary magazine Soun.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Walking The Sky

Walking The Sky (naviarhaiku305)

New Moon (Naviarhaiku 305)

In response to Naviar Records assigned Haiku:

Walking the sky
a clear moon
all alone

haiku by Ogiwara Seisensui www.lib.city.minato.tokyo.jp/yukari/e/m….cgi?id=22

picture by Altınay Dinç https://unsplash.com/@adinc

keeping company (Naviar Haiku 305)

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.

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keeping company (Naviar Haiku 305)

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