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haiku #584: heaven and earth: / neither exists apart from / snow fluttering down

My contribution to Junto Project 0683 - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0683-space-shot/70693

The first half of the track I wanted to capture the spaciousness and mystery of a cavernous space station – brutalist in design, surrounded by mist. The second half I wanted to take a deep dive into the inner workings of the station, where we hear the isolated clicks of machines and robots discussing the work being done.

disquiet0683

based around a synth pad from the PS1 game "fluid". i added some lightly hand-edited dub drum loops, and later programmed a second kit to play call and response with the dub drums. a bass pulse was added to keep things moving. the "2001 space" patch from newfangled audio's generate synth was layered in, as was an improvised lead piano line. textural samples from mode audio and another PS1 game, "silent hill", help thicken the atmosphere. some quiet volume-faded guitar emerges before the closing vinyl slowdown effect (unfiltered audio's needlepoint vst).

[naviarhaiku583] out of the blue

If I was better at 'social' media' stuff, I'd be making a bigger fuss of this 1,000th upload! 🎉 

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

Kajiwara Hashin was born in 1864 and studied under Kyoshi. Although Hashin is not very well-known as a poet, this particular haiku that he wrote is quite popular worldwide: it was first translated by Miyamori Asataro and later by R. H. Blyth.

Haiku by Kajiwara Hashin: https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2013/10/butterfly-dream-falling-snow-haiku-by.html

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

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halF neitheR [naviarhaiku584]

Acoustic repetitive, all real instruments:
Ronrocos
Ukuleles
Acoustic bass
Bombo legüero

Composed and performed by DD, 2024

For this haiku

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

by Kajiwara Hashin 


@naviar-records

From Heaven (naviarhaiku584)

2025-03-12

The day ends beyond the horizon.

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
584
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/

2025-03-13

heaven and earth ( Naviarhaiku 584 )

Neither exists apart  (naviarhaiku584)

14Mar25

My naviarhaiku584 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/777828233117876224/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth
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snow fluttering down [naviarhaiku584]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 584:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2018)

snow fluttering down - Naviarhaiku584

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/

SONG 78 - Navairhaiku584

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This week's task is rather serendipitous in that I am actually engaged in some minor wood working this weekend. I recently built a small Buchla 100 system (and its case), consisting of what is shown in the image and the as yet unhoused (and not shown) 114 touch control module, which is what the piece of unstained pine sitting on top of the Buchla is destined for. I selected pine because my woodworking skills are still rather rudimentary so working with higher priced and more difficult lumber makes me nervous. Plus, there is something comforting about pine's ubiquity and approachability. Making a mistake with pine seems excusable. Doing so with walnut or oak less so. That said, I got to thinking about the pine that I picked up at my local lumber shop in terms of the conditions under which it is grown and the vast quantities of trees that are stripped from the land so that people like me can make boxes for their vintage synthesizers. Sonically, I imagined this as a somewhat discordant drone, with peaks and valleys and occasional moments of harmony. The trees grow, mainly in a state or quietude, before they are cut down and processed to the sound of chain saws and saw blades. And then everything goes quiet again as the next crop is planted.  Graphically, I notated this imagined scenario as a series of constant lines, punctuated here and there with peaks, valleys, bright and dark spots, representing in part the knots and impurities in the pine but also the experience of the piece of wood in its transition from tree to commodity. Everything you hear was created on my humble System 100, which was first fed through the Empress Zoia pedal using the "soft focus" effect created by Christopher H.M. Jacques and then further transformed in Logic using "fragments," and "motion" from Arturia, with hints of the unprocessed Buchla emerging here and there. And there was panning. Lots of panning, so headphones are the preferred listening approach.

disquiet0690

κάθαρσις

An unsettling meditation on perception in the digital age. Through dark ambient textures, experimental pulses, and fragments of glitch and cinematic sound, Raw Cognition explores how human awareness burrows into the fabric of our hyperconnected society... restless, hungry, and never quite at ease.

In this world, the human body becomes a metaphor for our digital landscape, and the chigger... tiny, invasive, relentless, embodies human perception: feeding on the endless scroll of content, reacting to the invisible hum of online life, and leaving a lingering psychic itch.

Dig Deeper Little Chigger is a journey into the spaces where technology, isolation, and introspection collide.

Deeper Little Chigger #1

Drift, aka Alessandro Ferrario, defines his style as “Slow-motion electroacoustic sound paintings”, this definition comes from the tempo he uses, 40 BPM with 4/4 time signature, the main instrument he uses, an upright piano, and the layers crafted using the instruments you can find in orchestra, cello, viola, violin and double bass most of the times. He then elaborates all the patterns, adding modern era VSTs to create layers, like a painter does with paint.

In “Fragments of a Distant Now”, the artist explored time and memories, unfolding slow rhythms and digital manipulation to create textured atmospheres, which, like memories, can convey either relaxation or tension. Using delays, echoes, reverbs, and distortions, he crafts a sense of glitch in sound that mirrors the imperfections of fading memories.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Alessandro Ferrario (Drift)
Cover artwork by Alessandro Ferrario
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Fragments of a Distant Now

Shifting Horizons

Lost Love in Cairo - موسيقي الحب المفقود في القاهرة

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

snow fluttering down - Naviarhaiku584

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