All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

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.
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haiku #601: pulling light / from the other world . . . / the Milky Way

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

by: Arii Shokyu-Ni
Picture by A C

here upon wild - naviarhaiku582

"Raise reddest columns. Toll a bell
And clap the hollows full of tin.

Throw papers in the streets, the wills
Of the dead, majestic in their seals."

The Man With the Blue Guitar is a poem published in 1937 by Wallace Stevens. It is divided into thirty-three brief sections, or cantos. In the poem, an unnamed "they" says, of the titular man, "you do not play things as they are", sparking a prolonged meditation on the nature of art, performance, and imagination.

The Man With The Blue Guitar - full of tin

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start. The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 07045 discussion thread on Lines:

“The girl and the elderly man descended the steep stairs to the channel's narrow beach and walked along by the water's edge. Several small fishing boats were moving out to sea, passing a freighter entering the bay, booms raised, a…” 

So starts the first story in a collection of fascinating and contemplative short stories in “The Infinite Passion of Expectation” by Gina Berriault. I randomly picked the book, which had been sitting on our bookshelf for years, having read it decades ago. The stories, which take place in or around San Francisco, remind me of a unique, and sometimes surreal time in my life when I lived and worked there. 

This was created in Ableton Live and was inspired by the opening lines of the story, the book itself, and my reflection of a time many years ago. Thank you, I really enjoyed this prompt, and the creative journey it sent me on. 

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

The Infinite Passion of Expectation [disquiet0705]

For the 601th haiku proposed by Naviar records: 

pulling light from the other world . . . the Milky Way
 
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).

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

Pulling light (naviarhaiku601)

Welcome to a little deep (haiku) space TidalCycles livecoding play! 😁😜

pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

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).

Haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara: https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/JonesOnIshihara.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF milkY [naviarhaiku601]

Hybrid orchestral soundscape, a simple E major chord progression played on both electronic and acoustic instruments:  4 synthesisers alternating with 4 bowed basses, 2 cellos and a violin.

For this haiku:


pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

by: Yatsuka Ishihara

Created by DD in Paris  July 9, 2025
Photo by Alex.

naviarhaiku601  by @naviar-records

Pulling Light (naviarhaiku601 )

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
601
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

2025-07-10

pulling light  from the other world . . . (Naviarhaiku 601 )

Made specifically for Naviar Records' 501st Haiku Challenge

Light from another world (naviarhaiku601)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 601:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Bretagne, France, 2020)


from the other world - Naviarhaiku601

pict free wallpaper

Thanks to the instrument, I remembered old French films where Philippe Sarde made the music. For example, films like Two Men in the City etc. :-). Just playing in memory - here and now. Just for fun.

2025-07-16

NLS-2025-07-16

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Buzz Tremolo (naviarhaiku603)

Please listen with headphones
Elektroakustische Musik, August 2025

Oraculum

Traverser les espaces, franchir les horizons, imaginer des cieux chaleureux où des non-dieux vous serviraient à boire dans des vasques de bronze...

Derrière le miroir

8-29-25 (diaphanous)

Photo by <a href="https://stockcake.com/i/light-meets-shadow_1589714_1178267">Stockcake</a>

2025-09-18

very long shadows

Quiet Bean Ritual Piano

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

from the other world - Naviarhaiku601

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