This week's haiku challenge:

Stretching ahead -
the straight road,
loneliness.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda

Submission deadline: 7th August 2024

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

Stretching ahead (naviarhaiku552)

Clear

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Mountain Waters (naviarhaiku570)

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku570-washing-up-the-mountain/

YT Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/6m49719o_k8?feature=share

washing up the mountain-naviarhaiku570

Music by Stu King
Gretsch Streamliner
Digital Delay
Reverb
Korg Monologue synth
Mixed in Cubase

Down Together (naviarhaiku571)

Scent of a Rose

Dipinte di rosso

Original Version By:::
https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble/all-the-dogs-you-ever-loved-will-be-waiting-for-you-in-the-afterlife

Photo by Ivons

No Mates Ensemble - All The Dogs You Ever Loved Will Be Waiting 4 U... (Senglar Gat RMX)

“Calendar Songs” LP is a 2025 music project where every 1 - 2 months a single will be released, ultimately leading to the full release of the LP in December. 

The tracks will represent themes and ideas of ancient lore, archeological sites, time, and spirituality and will range from melodic metal, doom metal, progressive rock/ metal and exotic rhythms. 

“Tanis” is the first release of this project; an instrumental experimenting with droning chords, exotic melodies and kindred grooves. 
Tanis, a tale of a lost city remembered in dream and told through sounds mashed together.

Tanis

Disquiet Junto prompt 0683 instructed us to make a piece of music that is half in space and half not in space.

Radio waves travel at the speed of light, and when the first radio transmission crossed the Atlantic it was said that distance had been abolished. Without distance, there's no space. So half of the song is a story that takes place on a radio, and is about a radio, and was performed in part on a radio, removed from place and space.

There are no synthesizers or synthetic samples in this piece. Instrumentation was a heavily processed guitar played with ebow, a Schechter Damien 7-string guitar, shortwave radio, shoebox cassette recorder, and field recordings. The radio noises and vocal parts are removed from space through a custom convolution reverb I created using a spike of low-frequency AM noise as an impulse response, essentially placing the sounds in the ionosphere.

The story I tell in the song is true.

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Soft, Driven, Slow, and Mad (disquiet0683)

You We’re The Girl Of My Dreams.

“Tanis” the first release to the “Calendar Songs” LP project is out now ⬇️⬇️

“Calendar Songs” LP is a 2025 music project where every 1 - 2 months a single will be released, ultimately leading to the full release of the LP in December. 

The tracks will represent themes and ideas of ancient lore, archeological sites, time, and spirituality and will range from melodic metal, doom metal, progressive rock/ metal and exotic rhythms.

Tanis

ZDURV