Sound Fantasy on:

The rain is over:
South Mountain puffs out
Spring clouds.

(Tr. Sōiku Shigematsu)

Naviar Records Haiku Challenge

The rain is over

The rain is over_Naviarhaiku485

Sounds from Native Instruments and iPad Synths, created in Cubase 12.

Photo by zenbytes (2016, Vosges Mountaines, France)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 485:
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/715031608623759360/naviarhaiku485-the-rain-is-over

rain is over - Naviarhaiku 485

naviarhaiku486:
Lost in tranquil seas
Where spring feels melancholy
Another sunset
haiku: Gary Clarke https://whaligoeeye.co.uk/
image: Lavi Perchik https://unsplash.com/photos/bwm26JyAHBk
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Another Sunset [NaviarHaiku486]

Coming up, I've got my first piano commission to write (thanks @drakemusicscotland). Had been thinking I have to explore range and dynamics of the piano but increasingly, with the @naviar-records prompts I've been aiming for simplicity and space inbetween.

Here's this week's prompt that closes today:

Lost in tranquil seas
Where spring feels melancholy
Another sunset

Gary Clarke joined a social media platform to raise awareness about an infrastructure issue in his local area by creating a website at Whaligoe Eye in August, 2021. During this time, he stumbled across a poetry and writing community which provided support and encouragement for his creativity.
 
Living right on the coastline in the Highlands of Scotland provides Gary with plenty of inspiration for his poetic endeavours, and through moments of sunrise and sunset gracing the North Sea it proves to be a motivational muse.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 3rd May 2023

haiku by Gary Clarke https://whaligoeeye.co.uk/

lost in tranquil seas (naviarhaiku486)

visuals (YouTube) @ https://youtu.be/I0LP8EfY9Lk

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

picture by Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF everywherE [naviarhaiku487]

Naviar mountain naviarhaiku487

naviarhaiku487

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”

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

Deadline: 10th May 2023
haiku by Sôen Nakagawa
picture by Guillaume de Germain

Everywhere Spring Rain (naviarhaiku487)

naviarhaiku487:
Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.
haiku: Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/
image: Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Ocean Everywhere [NaviarHaiku487]

Stream It's Not Rainbows and Sunshine For Everybody: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tsohgeht/its-not-rainbows-and-sunshine-for-everybody-2


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Hyper Space Sleep

Brave New World I

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