Name: moonray shadows - Naviarhaiku 504 by zenbytes in haiku 504: Lazing in shadows, / Conceding the drawing room / to moonrays
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: Created on iPad during my travels, no mastering this time…

Deadline: 6th September

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haiku 504: Lazing in shadows, / Conceding the drawing room / to moonrays

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
504
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/30/naviarhaiku504-lazing-in-shadows/

2023-08-30

Lazing In Shadows  ( Naviarhaiku 504 )

Lazing in shadows,
Conceding the drawing room
to moonrays

Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Picture by Sebastian Mark https://unsplash.com/photos/L7T7afz-eTc

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Lazing & conceding (naviarhaiku504)

Lazing in shadows,
Conceding the drawing room
to moonrays
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When I thought about this haiku, the 'drawing room' made me think  about the place I make music, my music room which I call the blue room as its painted blue.  But as it happens I'm shortly leaving this room so my partner can put her easel up in here and paint where the light (south facing room) is better and I'm moving my music stuff to the north facing side of the house - where I can make music in the gloom!    So this haiku to me seems to sum up my move to a different room in the house, perhaps a change of room will hopefully help my creativity!?

More about this haiku.... 

Written by:  Natsume Seibi (1749-1816) was the son of a wealthy Edo rice broker and was acquainted with a number of other famous poets, including Oshima Ryota and Kobayashi Issa. In addition to his poetry, Seibi left behind a number of fine examples of haikai prose. 

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 6th September 2023

Haiku by Natsume Seibi

Picture by Sebastian Mark https://unsplash.com/photos/L7T7afz-eTc

Audio Obscura - Lazing In Shadows (Naviar Haiku #504)

A live electronic com;position created in Pure Data.

Moonrays & Shadows (naviarhaiku504)

1Sep23

My naviarhaiku504 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/30/naviarhaiku504-lazing-in-shadows/
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moonrays [naviarhaiku504]

Created on iPad during my travels, no mastering this time…

moonray shadows - Naviarhaiku 504

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)

Another beautiful collaboration with my fellow ambient producers from Studio Obscura.

Lead synths: Blooming Rains
Synths, Pad, Vocals: Enea Gorè
Pads: Our Forgotten Future, Ellipses, Outerlab
Guitars: dreamwarper, Enea Gorè
Ambiences, tones, metals, texture: Outerlab, Ellipses, Bleeptwig, Our Forgotten Future 
Production, mastering: Bleeptwig

On concrete fields

My submission for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #617,
More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Autumn Nightfall by the Sea - naviarhaiku617

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 617:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku617-an-autumn-nightfall/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Dangast, Germany, 2014)

Wave sample by
https://freetousesounds.bandcamp.com

fish skeleton - Naviarhaiku617

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
618
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku618-the-harp-player/

2025-11-06

the harp player (Naviarhaiku 618)

UN GAUCHO – solo bass

A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun.
Five-string bass (high C), light effect pedals — just melody, warmth, and a great instrument.

Thanks for listening!
— dd

Photo (C) Elena Nicolai


For this @disquiet junto meeting
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0724-work-it

Un Gaucho (disquiet0724)

An electronic composition, basic sounds created using Pure Data.

Deepening Purple (naviarhaiku619)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 691:
www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku619-almost-black/

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

Photo by zenbytes (La Palma, Spain, 2015)


deepening purple - Naviarhaiku619

Driftfields pt.I.

Here, somewhere. 

A collaboration with Our Forgotten Future, who also provided the cover art. 

He laid down these wonderful ambient textures as a canvas to build on, then it took me 2 months to figure out how to take this sense of movement and progression and elevate it. I've been experimenting a lot with low-pass gates as a way to make rhythmic elements from drones and textures and this was natural way to build up this piece, by processing the source materials in multiple ways - rhythmically, through resonation, harmonization, and a little distortion. 

The pulse track took so many takes to get the balance of punch and motion without overloading everything else.

Somewhere, moving

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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moonray shadows - Naviarhaiku 504

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