All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku614-the-coming-of-autumn/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- 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. Make it public before contacting me.
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- 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

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haiku #614: The coming of autumn / determined by / a red dragonfly

Made for the haiku challenge 612 of Naviar records.

faring over the lake drawing the light an autumn butterfly  
By: Yatsuka Ishihara
 Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

An automn butterfly (naviarhaiku612)

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🎧 Music for:
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Fragments of Eternity pt.I.

The background to this is a 1,000 year-old church near Hereford, which has a wooden statue of George and the Dragon ... You can get a flavour of the place and enjoy the visualisation of this track at https://youtu.be/ogYz27JAOuE

You can also see the church in real life at https://maps.app.goo.gl/f9DGotayt1daEMcg8 ... it's worth a visit! 😎

The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly

Kaya Shirao was born in 1738 in Fukagawa, Edo, now part of Tokyo.

He ran a school in Edo during Spring and Autumn, but in Summer and Winter, he would move to the countryside to teach thousands of aspiring poets from throughout the Shinano province (now Nagano Prefecture). He's considered one of the first established haikai writers to help spread cultural forms from national to regional urban centers.

Haiku by Kaya Shirao

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF reD [naviarhaiku614]

Little song for Kaya Shirao haiku: 
"The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly."



The coming of the red dragonfly (naviarhaiku614)

The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly

by: Kaya Shirao

614
Kaya Shirao was born in 1738 in Fukagawa, Edo, now part of Tokyo.

He ran a school in Edo during Spring and Autumn, but in Summer and Winter, he would move to the countryside to teach thousands of aspiring poets from throughout the Shinano province (now Nagano Prefecture). He's considered one of the first established haikai writers to help spread cultural forms from national to regional urban centers.

Picture by Aaron Burden

The Naviar haiku music challenge invites artists 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 121 - NaviarHaiku614 - The Coming of Autumn

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
614
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku614-the-coming-of-autumn/

2025-10-09

The coming of autumn (Naviarhaiku 614)

A four-minute ambient journey built from four evolving one-minute drones — each exploring a distinct emotional landscape.
Major to minor, light to dark, tension to abstraction:

00:00 – 01:00 → Luminous, joyful
01:00 – 02:00 → Dark, melancholic
02:00 – 03:00 → Anxious, tense
03:00 – 04:00 → Abstract, strange

Synthesizers and acoustic instruments blend seamlessly to create a warm, organic soundscape — bowed upright bass, harmonica, harmonium, and Tibetan bowls intertwine in a meditative yet cinematic flow.
Perfect for moments of reflection, atmosphere, and deep listening.

naviarhaiku614: The coming of autumn

for this haiku 

he coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly

by Kaya Shirao
Photo by  Adam Bixby 

The coming of autumn - naviarhaiku614

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 614:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku614-the-coming-of-autumn/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2013)

autumn dragonfly - Naviarhaiku614

[disquiet0720] glitz

I chose 2 recent unfinished tracks, that I had considered layering prior to the disquiet prompt… so I did just that, I set up 2 channels one for each track, one slowed by 10% to roughly match the longer track, I simply adjusted levels for each and had a shared bus channel with additional eq and reverb(s), this in turn joins the originals in the master, which also has some lofi fx and more(!) reverb… recorded the output.  Thanks for listening.
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More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Binomial - 96 bpm  - id_23 - Disquiet0720

HOW TO HOLD A GUITAR CORRECTLY

Little improvised song for Tanaka Hiroaki haiku:"
Whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts"

We meet (naviarhaiku616)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, field recordings, effects.

This original version of "An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 616: Whenever We Meet.

whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts

by: Tanaka Hiroaki

Tanaka Hiroaki (1959–2004) was a Japanese poet from Osaka. A student of Hatano Sōha, he published many of his works in the journal Ao 青 (“Blue”), of which he became editor in 1979. In 2000, he founded his own journal, Yū ゆう.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 19 Oct 2025, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume (naviarhaiku616)

A storm is a musical composition in itself. Taking inspiration from this week's Disquiet Junto project, I created improvised music to accompany Bruno Auzet's (@user-876924050) excellent field-recording, enhancing the inherent emotions and sounds of the original.

You can find the field recording on Freesound at freesound.org/people/bruno.auzet/sounds/713953/ under a Creative Commons 0 licence. My thanks go to Bruno Auzet for providing this wonderful recording.

The photograph was taken in Cornwall, not in Brittany - around 40 years ago.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

L'Automne en Bretagne  (Disquiet0721)

Electric guitar, voice, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, two tube amps. All sounds, voice, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. Image: Evening Sky (photo: VSS).

Darkening

Stars

Traveller in sound and space.  Enjoying and creating ambient, drone and experimental music.

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.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

autumn dragonfly - Naviarhaiku614

zenbytes

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