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haiku #538: Only the moon remains / floating in the memory / upon Kinokawa River

Rework of Kosmische II same but with piano elements

Kosmisk Strålning II

Lyrics by C.

The day is wearing a thousand shades of fall
Red, green, brown, and lucid as rain
Home is where the stories are insane

The drops of rain
I’m falling again
Towards the path of thee
It’s another lemon tree

Average 
The one I don’t belong
The one that keeps me mighty and sharp
As the thunder keeps the light

I fall for the shades 
And it falls into place to alter the origins of mine
Into a home for every soul

Containing There is no such thing 
For that infinity is the only word
I can take shelter under the loopy roof

Here are my lines
And if you look closer
You’ll see yours
Just between the lies

Not the one of repetition
But some just can’t keep it in the momentum

Here are the shadows
I’ve been ready to share

Here are the meals
I’ve been in to prepare

Here are some of the shades
Not meant to fade further away
For that, I have many homes to ride in the say

Shades

Sci-fi author William Gibson suggested that in the blackest depths of cyberspace, the line between rogue AIs and supernatural beings - for instance, the Loa of Haitian and Louisianan Voodoo - grows thin. 

This image appeared as the final iteration of the ‘negative space’ created by an AI art program prompted to produce ‘the opposite of Marlon Brando’. Wording in the scene apparently read ‘Loab.’ Repeated iterations took the image into ever darker scenes of gore and horror. Disturbingly, any sufficiently determined exploration of ‘negative space’, from *any* source, seemed always to arrive ultimately at ‘Loab’, in a scene of horror.  Researchers are at a loss to understand why the image recurs, or why it named itself ‘Loab’.

And thus, the first true demon of the AI age reveals itself to us, invoked through the incantatory magic of prompt engineering.

Loab

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often
I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Haiku by Shinkei: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384

more halF unusuaL

halF onlY [naviarhaiku538]

25Apr24

My naviarhaiku538 submission
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/748642894936784896/naviarhaiku538-only-the-moon-remains
:D

Only the moon remains [naviarhaiku538]

An electronic composition created in Pure Data.

Moon Floating (naviarhaiku538)

Marco Lucchi, based in Modena, Italy, and Henrik Meierkord, based in Stockholm, Sweden, have a lengthy collaboration to their reciprocal credit, and they accomplish it far and near alike. A testament to the interplay of their work together is that a listener might be hard-pressed to discern which of their recordings are the result of long-distance file-trading, and which occurred when the two managed to be in the same place at the same time.

Several aspects of their respective music-making serve them well as creative partners. First of all, both tend toward the ambient, given as they are generally to a slow pace and to a sensibility that manages to be at once radiant and intimate. Secondly, while both are multi-instrumentalists, there is a complementary nature to their specialties, Lucchi being more of a keyboardist, Meierkord more of a string player. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, they are both immersed in techniques drawn from electronic music.

In particular, both men are experienced with live multitrack recording, in which they process and layer their own performances in real time. Meierkord is fond of layering sinuous tones to create scenarios of unique dimensions. It becomes uncertain — even unimportant — to the listener what preceded what, so intricate is his deployment of interplay. Lucchi likewise finds parallels between classical orchestration and the opportunity for drones lent by modern synthesizers; in a small room he can create a vast space. There is often an oceanic depth to such efforts, part composed and part improvisatory, in which playing is a tool toward composition, rather than the other way around.

Throughout their new record, there is an underlying melancholy, a nostalgic beauty, and a reflective consideration — a virtue that is foundational to their ongoing collaboration. The result is particularly rich in plaintive scene setting, as on the glacially paced “La bestia umana,” which emerges from a neighborly field recording of a dog barking, and “Kosmisk Strålning II,” which maintains a dream-like quietude, more shadow than light. One “Like tears in rain”, what sounds like a synthesizer is, in fact, a piano, a recording of which has been stretched beyond the point of it being readily identifiable.

On first listen, their leaning toward unimpeachable steadiness can seem uniform, but listen more closely and you’ll recognize how explicitly they emote on a track like “The Third Stage,” due not just to the reaching melodic surges (which, in turn, match the sampled recordings of bird calls) but to the slight discordances that suggest trouble and tension. In a different manner, there is “A warm and golden October,” which balances breaking-dawn hush with piercing overtones. That track features a motif at the end, played on a celesta; those bell-like tones edge the piece out of dreaminess without entirely breaking the spell.

The greatest outlier — dog barking notwithstanding — may be on “Oändlig,” not just for its fierce pulse, but because of its more immediately electronic vibe. “Oändlig” is an exceptional piece, bringing to mind the minimalism of Terry Riley and the rave classics of Underworld.

Marc Weidenbaum 


Produced and mixed by Marco Lucchi and Henrik Meierkord
Marco Lucchi: mellotron, piano, celesta and synthesizers
Henrik Meierkord: cello, viola, zither, piano, organ and FX
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf) with AI
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

https://www.chitrarecords.com

Lieder Ohne Worte

The Third Stage

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

moon [naviarhaiku538]

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ugV2ta4n8

floating in the memory upon-naviarhaiku538

NAVIARHAIKU538:
Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River

haiku: Shinkei www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384
image: Cristian Lozan https://unsplash.com/photos/body-of-water-besides-green-trees-during-daytime-o-hfDAc6fRo
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Memory Upon Kinokawa [NaviarHaiku538]

Created on iPad with AUM, Riffer, Fugue Machine, mLFO, BLEASS Arpeggiator, RingsFX, Weeping Wall, Gauss, Yukawa, Twin 3, BLEASS Voices, Nerd Synth, Axon 3, AltiSpace2, Lagrange, Stellarvox, Quanta, SpaceFields
Mixed and mastered with Cubase 13 and Ozone 10, added some (Dawesome) Love...

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 538:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku538-only-the-moon-remains/

Photo by zenbytes (2023, North Platte River, Wyoming, USA)

floating in the memory - Naviarhaiku 538

River, recording close to water flow, lapping, at night in Amazon rainforest by felix.blume -- https://freesound.org/s/673967/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Moon Drift NaviarHaiku538

Reverse Chronicle

afternoon

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.

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floating in the memory - Naviarhaiku 538

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