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haiku #580: quiescence! / touching not the blossoms, / temple bell's voice

using 20 resonance tones I recorded on a toy piano and acoustic guitar, I've responded to this week's @naviar-haiku music challenge, of which you can find details about here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Haiku by Fuhaku

Extract of picture by Ming Han Low

bell's voice (naviarhaiku580)

Instrumental composed and performed by DD February 2025 using @gforce-software 's Oberheim OB-X, OB-E and DMX exclusively.

for this haiku by Fuhaku
quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Temple - naviarhauku580

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
580
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

2025-02-14

Temple Bell's Voice (Naviarhaiku 580  )

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records. 
A two-note bell ringing above a flowery meadow.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

Thank you NAVIAR RECORDS.

Quiescence (naviarhaiku580)

An electronic composition created using Pure Data with a little added echo and reverb.

Temple Bells (naviarhaiku580)

16Feb25

My naviarhaiku580 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/775296787732922368/naviarhaiku580-quiescence

:D

quiescence! [naviarhaiku580]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 580:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Morvan, France, 2024)

touching not the blossoms - Naviarhaiku580

A simple patch where the main audio source is my Atari Punk Console (APC) 2HP eurorack module. This is my first module that I have designed on my own and this track is a little test to see if it is possible to squeeze something "interesting" out of the thing.

APC modulated by (heavily attenuated) Sloths. Audio goes to Zlob SVF (slightly modulated by Diode Chaos). LP to mixer. HP to Foldiplier (with symmetry slightly modulated by a slow LFO) to MS20 HPF goes to mixer. BP goes to Phonic Taxidermist goes to a VCA controlled by Sloth Apathy and then sent to mixer. Sample from 2HP - Play. Mix goes to FX Aid for some reverb.

Sample used: Nuclear reactor startup (with sound) [nRTrCc_y0xg]

Adversarial Principles Construed

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 19 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, percussion, echo.

This original version of "Lollipop Tingle" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 581, Plunging My Hand 

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

by: Kobayashi Issa

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 19 May 2023, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Lollipop Tingle (naviarhaiku581)

drum and bass beats, melodies, and textural samples from several different companies (ethereal 2080, shaman stems, glitched tones, touch loops, undrgrnd sounds), two tracks of live guitar, one synth melody (arturia pigments) and one channel of morse code ("plunging my hand into the lake... billowing clouds") played on a group of randomly triggered small cymbals at 170bpm. the track closes with a sample of toluca lake.

[naviarhaiku581] into the lake

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/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

SONG 76 - Naviarhaiku582



Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 584.
Sur un haïku de Kajiwara Hashin:

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


fluttering down

Descend into the immovable silence of Liturgia Atra, the eighth ritual cycle of the Arkanæa saga. Here, in the cold echo of stone and void, the divine watches without whispering—no warmth, no seduction, only the gravity of ancient liturgy.

Deep, distant Gregorian fragments drift through bowed-stone drones and pipe-organ undercurrents. Metallic scrapes and bone percussion punctuate rusted bells and gongs, while reversed vocal loops and breathless Coptic murmurs swirl like wind in a crypt. Cold analog synths and subterranean thunder recordings ground you in monolithic austerity.

This is a fossilized hymn—an archaic, post-sacramental relic where every tone uncovers what should have stayed buried.

✦ Gregorian Dark Ambient & Cold Ritual Drone
✦ Pipe Organ, Bowed Stone & Bone Percussion
✦ Rusted Bells, Gongs & Subterranean Wind
✦ Reversed Latin & Coptic Vocal Textures
✦ Tape Decay Chants & Monastic Field Recordings
✦ Enigmatic, Minimal & Monumental Atmosphere

Presented by Arkanæa: witness the sacred shadow.

Vox Illuminate

🔴 Full Album Video: https://youtu.be/Bob_SWwitVs

Gaze of the Broken Sun

Chapel of Stillness

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

touching not the blossoms - Naviarhaiku580

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