All submissions to Haiku 251:

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/10/24/naviarhaiku251-i-have-lost-my-way

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 podcast and monthly free (pay-what-you-want)compilation. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #251: I have lost my way / In a strange town at night, – / A sky of old cold stars.

M like music 29

This is my entry into the Ambient Online One Sample Dare challenge, details here:-

https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/91594-one-sample-dare-challenge-63

This piece is not intended to represent its title. As usual, I have great difficulty deciding on a title for a piece and I invariably end up searching the interwebs for interesting (to me) stuffs.

Gaping Gill is a large cave in the Yorkshire Dales. More information here:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaping_Gill

and here:-

http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/visit-the-dales/discover-the-dales/caves-and-potholes/gaping-gill

Image is courtesy of Mark S Jobling and is of the entrance to Gaping Gill.

I hope you enjoy the journey :-)

cheers

andy

Gaping Gill

Gaping Gill [AO OSD 63]

I have lost my way
In a strange town at night, –
A sky of old cold stars.

haiku by Richard Wright https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/wright.html
picture by Biel Morro https://unsplash.com/@bielmorro

lost

halF losT [naviarhaiku251]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
251 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2018-10-25

I have lost my way (Naviarhaiku 251)

This track was composed for the Naviar Haiku project (@naviar-records), week 251: https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-251-i-have-lost-my-way

In A Strange Town (Naviarhaiku251)

my entry for the https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/91594-one-sample-dare-challenge-63
haiku by Richard Wright https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/wright.html
picture by Biel Morro https://unsplash.com/@bielmorro

Naviarhaiku - Old Cold Stars

October 26, 2018.

I have lost my way
In a strange town at night, –
A sky of old cold stars.

~ Richard Wright

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One of the most celebrated African-American novelists of the twentieth century, Richard Wright discovered haiku during the last eighteen months of his life (he died of heart attack in 1960, aged 52). In such a short time he wrote 4000 poems, and his posthumous book “Haiku: This Other World“ is a collection with 817 of his own favorite haiku.

His daughter Julia once said that haiku for Wright were “self-developed antidotes against illness, and that breaking down words into syllables matched the shortness of his breath.”

Strangetown, At Night (Naviar Haiku 251)

Boson Spin - Reperbia [part 5]

First settled in 1733, Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S state of Georgia. The bustling port played an integral role in the Atlantic slave trade, importing thousands of African people of primarily Congolese descent. 

Even after the state banned the direct important of Africans in 1798, written records indicate that slave ships arrived on coastal Georgia as late as 1858. Many of these were driven by pirates who profited by luring escaped slaves to their boats, imprisoning them, and selling their labor overseas.

In 1854, a French ship called "The Grietely" arrived in Savannah to collect 71 runaway slaves. Chained to the bottom of the boat, the slaves pounded the walls in order to escape. As the damaged ship began to take in water, the captain refused help from locals to save those imprisoned below deck. Everyone chained to the boat perished.

Legend has it that the harbor remains haunted by the ghosts of those who drowned on "The Grietely." Some sailors insist that they can sense a force in the waters that pulls their boats off course. Others have reported hearing voices spoken in Bantu.

For this piece, Suss Müsik layered recordings of African American laments against a bed of Moog synth and bass drum. Listeners may recognize the haunting lyric of New Buryin’ Ground: “Well I can hear the hammer ringin’ / On somebody coffin / A well, it must have been my captain," in addition to an unknown vocalist singing Arwhoolie Cornfield Holler.

The piece is titled Grietely. The image was taken on the waters of the Savannah river.

More on this 356th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Ground Swell / The Assignment: Derive something spooky from a specific place) at:
https://disquiet.com/0356/

Major thanks to Chris McAvoy for having proposed this project.

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Grietely [Disquiet0356]

this is my submission for Naviar Haiku 251:

I have lost my way
in a strange town at night
a sky of old cold stars

on location in New Orleans. Created a generative patch in vcv rack using my new favorite modules, Bouncy Balls and note sequencer, from JW Modules. Brought the Rack audio into Reaper through VCV Bridge and further edited with Ambient Reverb and EQ automation.

uses audio from this youtube video:
https://youtu.be/sLyhapaqDps

Getting Lost in Crescent City (naviarhaiku251)

Piano Baroque Improvisation 10

This is the final movement of my third symphony.  It was a real struggle to complete, needing patience, perseverance, time, energy and a faint belief that it was ultimately worthwhile.

It was over a year ago that I started writing this work.  The first two movements flowed out relatively quickly.  The third took almost a year in of itself.   There were long stretches in which I just let the work sit there allowing it to marinate.  Hopefully, the resulting time has helped mold this piece into a fulfilling musical journey.  At times the music may seem far from pleasing to the ear, but through these struggles I hope the resolution is more powerful and ultimately moving.

As always, I really appreciate you listening to my music.  I hope you enjoy and thank you.  Christopher

Getting Lost in Crescent City (naviarhaiku251)

action heroine 92