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NAVIARHAIKU652

I had a very busy week and did not write anything about my progress on this track as time went on. I usually try to at least start a draft blog post around the time I start composing one of my weekly tracks. I didn’t do that at the start of this week and put it off until now. It is now Friday night and I’m decompressing, so I’m not sure what to say because I can hardly think back to when I…

NAVIARHAIKU651

This is my first submission after my dad passed away suddenly last month. The idea of something “left undone” is weighing heavily on me right now. My dad was a busy, productive person and working 5-6 days per week up until his death. The only slowing down he did was when he recently decided to only commute to his office 5 days a week. He had that same office for decades. I only remember visiting…

NAVIARHAIKU646

My dad died suddenly three weeks ago. I am grieving and searching for ways to find solace. Even though I lack the motivation to make music right now, one thing I feel comfortable doing is writing about my experience. So here I am writing this post hoping that it will allow me to turn a corner and move on to my next musical project in an effort to to heal. My dad was 79 and slowing down, but…

NAVIARHAIKU645

Before the year began, I made a personal commitment to focus on completing weekly Naviar Haiku projects like this one, but to also complete some Disquiet Junto projects. After trying to do two in the same week earlier in the year, I realized I simply do not have the bandwidth for that in my life right now. This is to explain my absence from the Naviar Haiku playlists over the past few…

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This track is the second part of a series of three in a collaborative project where I took someone else’s song, panned it to the left and then added a new part panned to the right with the hope that next week someone else will add a third part in the middle of the mix. There were so many interesting tracks to choose from, but I felt called to use the beat by SoundCloud user, Old Drummer. As a…

NAVIARHAIKU642

I try to at least start a draft blog post when I start one of my weekly projects. That way, by the end of the week, I at least have something to build on and post. This week got away from me, mostly because I participated in both the Disquiet Junto project and completed a Naviar Haiku track. When it came to this track for Naviar Haiku, I felt like I was behind in an amount of time exactly equal…

disquiet0747

This track is part of a collaborative project for the Disquiet Junto. Other musicians and myself are creating tracks this week that will be used next week by other musicians to create duets and then again the week after that to create trios. I have participated in Disquiet Junto projects like this in the past and really enjoyed the experience of having my material reimagined and working with…

NAVIARHAIKU641

I had a strong streak going of consecutive weeks where I completed a song for the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge. But I ended up going through a major life event, namely, changing jobs, and then I had a pre-planned vacation. As the vacation approached, I decided that I would intentionally let my streak end. I know that type of commitment can be detrimental to me based on what I went through in 2024…

NAVIARHAIKU636

I had to look up the word “talus” and learned that in geography it refers to a slope in a mountain range. I watched some of the new Netflix special about dinosaurs and have been thinking about the age of the planet. This prompt poem aligns with those thoughts, thinking about how glaciers shaped our current landscape over the course of billions of years. Music production took a back seat this…

NAVIARHAIKU635

I heard about the Stay Cool project through my involvement with the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge and I wanted to participate, but I didn’t realize the time zone difference between where I live and where it was taking place made it impractical. Still, I was happy to be able to take part asynchronously through a response to a prompt poem like this one. This poem in particular provides a generous…

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NAVIARHAIKU634

The closing line of the prompt poem made me think I needed a field recording of the sound of rain for this track. I went into LANDR Samples and found one that also had birds chirping, which also responded to the second line of the poem. But that recording sounded like it was taken outdoors and didn’t have the feeling of being inside of a building, while the opening line of the poem speaks of a…

NAVIARHAIKU633

I’ll be honest, I found the prompt poem to be confusing. Throughout the week, I tried to imagine what the “house” is that the swallows must not forget on their return. Did the swallows take someone’s house away? Perhaps a twig or stick from an insect that was living in it? Or was the command to not forget intended to remind the swallows to bring a house back? Or was it just a command not to…

NAVIARHAIKU632

This week’s haiku prompt was written by another regular participant in the weekly music challenge. I have had one of my poems used in the past and I remember it feeling very special when I listened to musical responses to something I wrote. The snail as the subject caught me off guard, but I think I captured it with the gliding bassline. All of the other sounds seem to float above that in the…

NAVIARHAIKU631

There are quite a few presets in Logic Pro that contain the word “dust” that also have a “dirty” sound to them. I used these as the foundation for my response to the prompt poem where I imagine a bird creating a tiny dust cloud while taking a dust bath. One present I used even has a subtle vinyl scratch sound that pans from right to left like listening to an old dusty vinyl record. I combined…

NAVIARHAIKU630

My tactic of using the prompt poem to find instrument presets broke down this week. Perhaps this is because I just recently completed another song prompted by a poem featuring a falling leaf and I didn’t want to re-use the same sounds. So, I decided to just use one sound that I liked and then used the feature in Logic Pro for iPad to find similar sounds. I was at my music production desk, so I…

NAVIARHAIKU629

It’s the middle of winter and we have been experiencing some of the snow and freezing temperatures from the edge of the storm sweeping the US, so it was difficult to relate to the prompt poem about an autumn storm. I had to stretch my imagination to picture the farm where the scarecrow has fallen. There are plenty of presets mentioning the word “rain” so I had an easy time finding sounds that…

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