All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/

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 #596: spring dream… / not becoming unhinged / is what’s unbearable

spring dream…
not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

Konishi Raizan was a famous haiku poet of the Genroku period (1688-1704). He was a disciple of Nishiyama Sōin, and after his death, his works were anthologized in Imamiyagusa, which was published in 1734. He wrote this poem after the death of his only son.

Haiku by Konishi Raizan: https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/raizan.php
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

halF unhingeD [naviarhaiku596]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 04 Jun 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Navigation Problem No. 1" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 596: Spring Dream...

spring dream…
not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

by: Konishi Raizan

Konishi Raizan was a famous haiku poet of the Genroku period (1688-1704). He was a disciple of Nishiyama Sōin, and after his death, his works were anthologized in Imamiyagusa, which was published in 1734. He wrote this poem after the death of his only son.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 17 Jun 2023, Massapequa, NY, USA & 04 Jun 2025

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge.

Navigation Problem No. 1 (naviarhaiku596)



Konishi Raizan was a famous haiku poet of the Genroku period (1688-1704). He was a disciple of Nishiyama Sōin, and after his death, his works were anthologized in Imamiyagusa, which was published in 1734. He wrote this poem after the death of his only son.

Haiku by Konishi Raizan

Picture by USGS


spring dream_naviarhaiku596

5Jun25

My naviarhaiku596 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/
:D

not becoming unhinged [naviarhaiku596]

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from excellent @naviar-records.

spring dream… not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

by: Konishi Raizan

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/

Spring dream (naviarhaiku596)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 596:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2017)

spring dream unhinged - Naviarhaiku596

Made specifically for Naviar Records' 501st Haiku Challenge

Light from another world (naviarhaiku601)

Cephalopods

Come to the warmland.

An ambient exploration and collaboration with Our Forgotten Future, Outerlab, Ellipses, dreamwarper.

Warmland // Ambient Collab feat. Outerlab, Ellipses, Our Forgotten Future, dreamwarper, Bleeptwig

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Darren Bourne’s poem “half-asleep eyes / open to a dreamlike world / of blossoms”.

Tracklist:

Leon Clowes · half-asleep eye https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/half-asleep-eye
Anne Versailles · Blooming sleepiness https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/blooming-sleepiness
Gianantonio Patella - beryl mossed wools https://soundcloud.com/gianantonio-patella/beryl-mossed-wools
Mr_Lamppost · A Dreamlike World https://soundcloud.com/mr_lamppost/a_dreamlike_world-naviarhaiku
vheissu77 · dreamlike blossoms https://soundcloud.com/vheissu77/dreamlike-blossoms

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house”by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #381 –  Half-asleep eyes – Wednesday 1st October  2025

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0722: Spook Street. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0722-spook-street/73313/5.

Escapism 10

Noises From Above: A Study in Quiet Intrusions is an album shaped around the small, persistent sounds that leak into our private spaces—those half-heard murmurs from neighbours, the distant thrum of traffic, the creaks and hums of a building settling into its own rhythms. The tracks capture a different facet of the world that slips past walls and doors, turning everyday disturbances into textures, moods, and emotional landscapes. It’s an exploration of how these subtle intrusions colour our solitude, interrupt our thoughts, and quietly become part of the soundtrack of living in close proximity to others.

Muffled Conversation in A Minor

Lost and adrift on a polyrhythmic stellar breeze.

Adrift (in space)

For an Old Friend

A Time Before

from the forthcoming album - quit music for busy lives

waiting for an answer

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

spring dream unhinged - Naviarhaiku596

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