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in the pic: John Fahey

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2024)

Deadline: 20th March 2024

All submissions to Haiku 531:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku532-wordless/

To participate:
- 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 Twitter, 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.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
Naviar Records store: www.naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

haiku #532: Wordless / all day long / the shadow of a butterfly

One of the first people I met on this platform was the wonderful Societe Cantine. He listened with open ears and offered indepth thoughts on my music and sparked conversation and experimentation. He, himself a mind-blowing sound artist, has released a  string of albums over the last decade that still sing with originality and genre breaking optimism. We danced round the edges of collaboration for a longtime, adding little bits of sound to bigger projects or producing video. Just before COVID hit the world we finally met in Paris - I had so much talk about, as did he.. like children we struggled with face to face language; his english is good, my french is terrible : ) We decided that we should finally start collaborating in depth and this is the first piece - conceived and played with, back and forth during lockdown COVID times. Naturally enough we titled it Language Gap after our initial stumbling meeting. It got an honourary mention in the 2023 One Minute Radio Festival and through that has been played all over the world . Fardeau Losange (as he now known) and I are working now, very slowly on some sort of album - it will take forever, but its almost secondary to the friendship that has grown around the music we have listened to, written and shared on this platform.   https://societecantine.bandcamp.com/album/lopacit-des-interlignes

Language Gap (Fardeau Losange/Mat Ward)

Electronic composition, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Easy (naviarhaiku530)

1Mar24

My naviarhaiku530 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/743612557262274560/naviarhaiku530-taking-it-easy
:D

taking it easy [naviahaiku530]

Marco Lucchi : piano, mellotron and tape
Akemi Takeya : shamisen and voice

marzo 2024

Iki no kôzô # 2 - w/Akemi Takeya

I sent music I titled "Ravine" to Paulo Chagas, who listened closely to it and responded with his alto sax. Our album explores this close listening in context of various mental landscapes, with this piece, being in a metaphoric ravine.

In A Ravine, (Matthies And Chagas)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 532

Wordless
all day long
the shadow of a butterfly
 
Hōsai graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied law. He got off to a good start but decided to give up his home, family, and business to jump from one militant religion of Japan to the other.

Just like Taneda Santoka, Hōsai abandoned the traditional verse form of his time and mostly looked at the austere confines of his life for inspiration.

Haiku by Hosai Ozaki

Picture by sumingliu youyou

Submission deadline: 20th March 2024

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.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.

TO PARTICIPATE
 
- 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 (naviarhaiku532)”
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 Twitter, 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.

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.
 
For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

The Shadow of a Butterfly

The Shadow Of A Butterfly (naviarhaiku532)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
532
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku532-wordless/

2024-03-14

Wordless (Naviarhaiku 532)

A live quasi-serialist electronic composition created in Pure Data.

Butterfly Shadow (naviarhaiku532)

Wordless
all day long
the shadow of a butterfly
 
Hōsai graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied law. He got off to a good start but decided to give up his home, family, and business to jump from one militant religion of Japan to the other.

Just like Taneda Santoka, Hōsai abandoned the traditional verse form of his time and mostly looked at the austere confines of his life for inspiration.

Haiku by Hosai Ozaki

wordless [naviarhaiku532]

17Mar24

My naviarhaiku532 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/744852842387537920/naviarhaiku532-wordless
:D

Wordless [naviarhaiku532]

Jesús Lastra aka Voidborn Horde, is a Venezuelan ambient electronic music composer born in 1986. Since 2002, He starts this musical journey by exploring experimental sounds, influenced by ambient music and soundscapes that evoke vast and ethereal imaginary worlds. Under the alias Voidborn Horde, he has developed an unique style with electronic elements and ambient textures, finding a kind of "false enviroment sounds" to give the listener an immersive and dreamlike experience. His music is characterized by its ability to evoke neutral deep emotions and meditative states of patience, making him a reference in the ambient music scene.

@rawpinkbmp
@flat-stone
@zuheodosha
@jalastram
@kabomani
@solanmusic
@nobioyetmusic
@nobioyet
@0x4B

Software

- FL Studio
- Audacity
- Virtual Instruments
- Cubase LE AI Elements 6
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- WaveEditor Record & Edit Audio (Sound-Base Audio, LLC)

Hardware

- Vieta Pro Way 4
- MSI GF63 Thin 11UC
- Interface Scarlett 2i2
- Condenser Microphone(CM25)
- Audio-Technica ATH-M50X
- Arturia MiniLab - USB/MIDI Controller
- Nikon D3200
- M-Audio Axiom 61
- M-Audio Oxygen 61
- M-Audio Hammer 88
- M-Audio BX5 D3 (Studio Monitors)
- JVC HA-RX330-E Headphone
- AKG Headphone
- SONY SRS-D25
- Samsung S10 Edge
- Xiaomi Redmi 9C
- Xiaomi Redmi 14C

https://freesound.org/people/jalastram/