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  Here is a track I created for the 631st #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge. I feel like I came up with a song that responds directly the prompt poem in an obvious way by combining “dusty” pad layers with “chirpy” synths to represent the bird taking a dust bath. Read more about Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku631-spring-day/ Read more about my process behind the track: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/naviarhaiku631/ Listen to my track: https://thgirwnhoj.bandc...

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  The prompt poem for the 632nd #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge was written by @elwud and I created a response at the link below. The subject of a snail was unexpected, but I think I captured it with a gliding bassline underneath layers of soft pads and arpeggiated synths that seem to float above in the clouds. Read more about Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku632-slowly-gliding/ Read more about my process behind the track: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/naviarh...

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  I found the prompt poem for the last #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge to be somewhat confusing. 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? Read more about Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku633-when-you-return/ Read more about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/naviarhaiku633/ Listen to my track: https:...

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  One of my songs is featured on this compilation from Naviar Records. The album features 12 tracks from various artists who recently participated in the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge, a weekly project where participants respond to a haiku poem with music. It is truly an honor to be included in this compilation alongside other musicians I admire. Please listen and consider supporting Naviar Records and the artists who contributed music. https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/naviar-haiku-31 #...

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  Here is the track I created for the 634th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge. By combining a recording of rain sounds with metallic and muffled synth textures, I attempted to place the listener in a hall that leads directly to the outdoors so that the rain outside and the sound of it hitting the roof can be heard at the same time. Read more about Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku634-in-the-temple-hall/ Read more about my process behind the track: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress....

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  If you want to make my day this #BandcampFriday please consider following me on #Bandcamp and giving one of my tracks a listen. Follow me on Bandcamp: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/follow_me Listen to my track "Again" on Naviar Haiku 31 released last week: https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/naviar-haiku-31 Listen to my album "Territories" released late last year: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/album/territories

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  The prompt poem for the 635th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge came out of the Stay Cool project and provided a generous amount of sonic direction. Using the word “star” I found eight patches that fit the outer space motif right away, leaving plenty of room for me to build out my sound palette. Listen to my track: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/the-starry-night-i-never-saw-naviarhaiku635 Read more about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/naviarhaiku635/ Read more abo...

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  For the 636th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge, I had to look up the word “talus” and learned it refers to a slope in a mountain range. Coincidentally, I recently watched a documentary about dinosaurs and have been thinking about the age of the planet and how it came to look like it does today. Listen to my track: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/worse-for-wear-naviarhaiku636 Read more about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/naviarhaiku636/ Read more about Naviar Haik...

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  I’ve been participating in the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge for a while. Each week, musicians receive a haiku prompt and respond with an original song. Recently, Naviar and Red Earth Ecology teamed up on a project to promote Japanese-style poetry and encourage international collaboration. When they asked for submissions, I sent in a few poems and I’m thrilled that one has been chosen as this week’s prompt (accompanied by a photo I took)! Find more information here https://www.naviarrecor...

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  Please listen to my track for the the 641st #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/stuck-inside-naviarhaiku641 Read more about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/naviarhaiku641/ Read more about Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku641-idyllic-nights/

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  This track is part of a collaborative project for the #DisquietJunto. 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. https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/the-first-of-a-few-disquiet0747 More about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/disquiet0747/ More on the 747th weekly Disquiet Junto project, And a One (1/3) — The Assignment: Record the first thir...

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  A fun update: I just learned that my poem that was used as the prompt for the 640th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge is currently on display superimposed over a photograph that I took and hanging in the Artspace in the foyer of the Griffith Regional Theatre in New South Wales, Australia. I had no idea this was coming and I’m genuinely moved to see something I created on a gallery wall. Thank you to Naviar Records, Red Earth Ecology, and everyone involved in the Stay Cool Project for including me!

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  This track is the second part of a series of three in a collaborative project for the #DisquietJunto where I took someone else’s song, panned it to the left, and then added a new part panned to the right, hoping that next week someone else will add a third part in the middle of the mix. https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/two-drummers-young-at-heart-disquiet0748-feat-old-drummer More about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/disquiet0748/ More on the 748th weekly Disquie...

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  My track for the 645th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge features spoken word for the first time; specifically, a recording of a short poem I found on Librivox. This track is also in response to a poem by a fellow contributor to other Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto projects (halF unusuaL aka Darren Bourne) whose musical output and consistent participation I admire. https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/half-blind-naviarhaiku645 Read more about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/05/...

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  Please listen to my track for the the 642nd #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge: https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/unexpected-naviarhaiku642 Read more about my process: https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/naviarhaiku642/ Read more about Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku642-a-moment-before-sunrise/ #musodon #mymusic #originalmusic #ambientmusic