A compilation to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Naviar Haiku challenge, which every week invites artists to make music in response to an assigned haiku poem.
55 artists, 91 tracks, over 9 hours of music selected from the submissions Naviar received in 2019.
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The compilation is free to download. Please follow and support the artists involved:
19donut
soundcloud.com/user-594509542
Agnostura Elwar
soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar
Ahornberg
soundcloud.com/ahornberg
Andrulian
soundcloud.com/andrulian
Audio Obscura
soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music
AWVH
soundcloud.com/annwvonhuber
Bassling
bassling.blogspot.com
Boson Spin
soundcloud.com/boson_spin
C H I L D
soundcloud.com/child00
Corine Bicadeideias
soundcloud.com/corinebicadeideias
Cryxuss
soundcloud.com/cryxuss
Daniel Diaz
soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz
DesuExPerimental
soundcloud.com/user-761630784
Ed Mundio
soundcloud.com/edmundio1
EnigmaCurry
soundcloud.com/enigmacurry
GHel Haiku
soundcloud.com/ghel-haiku
GLSmyth
soundcloud.com/glsmyth
halF unusual
soundcloud.com/half-unusual
how the night came
soundcloud.com/howthenightcame
ibehre
soundcloud.com/ibehre
Ikjoyce
soundcloud.com/ikjoyce
Joyneski
soundcloud.com/user-859240368
JRBjork
soundcloud.com/j-bjork
Kyosuke Osaku
soundcloud.com/kyosuke-osaku
Merle Bardenoir
soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir
mettle
soundcloud.com/mettle-488846401
Mike J Dayton
soundcloud.com/mikejdayton
My Own Cubic Stone
soundcloud.com/my-own-cubic-stone
MusicheVirtuali-Marco Lucchi
soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali
Night Note
soundcloud.com/mmastalka
Oberlin
soundcloud.com/moi-qui
OneAmbient4
soundcloud.com/oneambient4
Oxebe
soundcloud.com/oxebe
Pedro Figueiredo
soundcloud.com/everythingdies
Pure Land Haiku Music
soundcloud.com/user-280453636
¶radio hummingbird
soundcloud.com/radiohummingbird
rizzi
soundcloud.com/rizzi
Robert Knote
soundcloud.com/robertknote
Roofhare
soundcloud.com/roofhare
Rumblin_Cynth_Rampo
soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo
Ryan Scott Mattingly
soundcloud.com/ryanscottmattingly
s e v e n i s m
soundcloud.com/sevenism
Scott Lawlor
scottlawlor.bandcamp.com
SityPhoxx
soundcloud.com/sityphoxx
Stull
soundcloud.com/stull
subespai
soundcloud.com/subespai
synkrotron
soundcloud.com/synkrotron
This Northern Life
soundcloud.com/thisnorthernlife
Tunnelwater
soundcloud.com/tunnelwater
Tuonela
soundcloud.com/tuonela-1
Unnecessary Enterprises
soundcloud.com/johnjohn_era
Vassilis Poulantzas
soundcloud.com/vassilis-poulantzas
windspace
soundcloud.com/windspace
whalt thisney
soundcloud.com/walthisney
Zero Meaning
soundcloud.com/zeromeaning
Zuhé
soundcloud.com/zuheodosha
poems:
haiku #261: mountain village / the endless solitude / of a lark's song
haiku #262: the reef’s silence . . . / sea fans brighten, darken / with the current
haiku #263: summer nightfall / the sky slowly regains / its colours
haiku #264: night wind / the bush comes alive / with dreamtime stories
Haiku #265: dark moon / the pull of a planet / beyond Pluto
Haiku #266: neon boulevard / the night slips by / a tinted windscreen
haiku #267: spring breeze / the orchestration / of wildflowers
haiku #268: transience . . . / petal by petal / we let go
haiku #269: Before the crossroads / not a stir across the land / a sunrise moment
haiku #270: snowing / through the blizzard / particles of me
haiku #271: The heart is a fool, / Never learns what it can't have / Beating hopelessly
haiku #272: The falling tide / tugs at my dream / Winter solstice
haiku #273: Twirl among the trees, / Soft in step, swift as the breeze. / Dance beneath the leaves.
haiku #274: from earth, sky, trees / not a single sign - / yet autumn....
haiku #275: Home is not a place. / It could be anywhere when / you are truly loved.
haiku #276: rain-soaked wind / the weather-worn notice / peels back more
Haiku #277: waking from summer sleep-- / moon gazing / on the levee
haiku #278: coolness— / a mountain stream splashes out / between houses
haiku #279: Ripples on water / reflecting the light of dawn / the breaking of day
haiku #280: night ends in hills / before clocks strike four- / cloud covered sun hides
haiku #281: The summer grasses / All that remains / Of brave soldiers dreams
haiku #282: the sky I see / seems full of / magnolia blossoms
haiku #283: The clear day in the rainy season/The madder red of the twilight appeared/And vanished instantly
haiku #284: the shepherdess calls / a distant clang of goat bells / mountain music
haiku #285: I'm on the shore of a river / on some rocky path, on a hillside / my way home
haiku #286: When I gazed down the ocean, / I could see with amazement / The countless lights that shone
haiku #287: a bright star / in a moonless sky— / gentle breeze
haiku #288: a clear waterfall / into the ripples / fall green pine needles
haiku #289: bioluminescence / I skip a pebble across / the universe
haiku #290: polarized sky / the mixed melodies / of twilight birds
haiku #291: my little dragonfly hunter / I wonder how far / he has gone today...
haiku #292: the temple bell fading, / the scent of flowers comes forth- / evening
haiku #293: Each time they roll in / the beach waves break up / the plovers
haiku #294: spring dawn / wind turbines harvest / silver fog
haiku #295: night train / the briefly lit lives / of others
haiku #296: evening haze: / when memories come, / how distant are the by gone days
haiku #297: awakened from sleep / surprised by the darkness– / late autumn
haiku #298: Watching a kite / up in the sky, / I think of nothing.
haiku #299: moonset / a sudden vastness / between stars
haiku #300: four, five, nine years / always the first to bloom... / cherry tree
haiku #301: waterlily leaves / bobbing on the lake . . . / lullaby
haiku #302: bursts from our guns / the town on the horizon / a brief vision of light
haiku #303: Whenever I speak / My lips are / chilled— Autumn wind.
haiku #304: reflection / in the water / a traveler
haiku #305: Walking the sky / a clear moon / all alone
haiku #306: The light snow. / The ice without any trace / On the lake.
haiku #307: Innumerable stars / Looks like floated algae / In my mind
haiku #308: White chrysanthemums: / in the fragrance, too, there are / light and shade
haiku #309: bitter winter wind / ends there -- / sound of the sea
haiku #310: One push of the door, a single step / And the corridor seems to stretch/ As far as the eye can see.
haiku #311: Life here was marvellous / But we are slaughtering the world / Watch the forests burn
haiku #312: frozen trough / I cup the warm breath / of my horse
released January 19, 2020
picture by Igor Son