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Sonic Haikus

by Jim Tetlow

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about

Just after the UK went into Covid-19 lockdown I chanced upon the Haiku Music Challenge, a weekly creative stimulus hosted by Marco Sebastiano Alessi's Naviar Records, a kind of netlabel which began in 2014 as a Tumblr blog and SoundCloud group:
www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

The short three-line poems are intended to inspire experimental music and I found this to be a perfect lockdown project; one for an album, in fact. So here it is. It has been a useful kind of sonic playground for trying out ideas and honing my craft.

NB: in conjunction with this album, 'Summer Days, Cold Water' was extended into a 43 minute ambient piece entitled 'Hidden Life' which can be found here:
jimtetlow.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-life

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released September 5, 2020

All music, field recordings, photography and artwork by Jim Tetlow
Pieces made between March and September 2020

Field recordings:
Bushland atmosphere on 'A Crescendo of Silence' recorded on location in Paxton, New South Wales, August 2008
Blackbird on 'Flowering Fields' and 'A Cathedral of Pines' recorded in Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire, May 1995

Thanks to my musical partner in Windfall Light John Hinks (aka FlownBlue) for introducing me to the Haiku Music Challenge, Marco for tirelessly coordinating this fascinating project for several years now, Chris Conway for feedback on the cover artwork and suggesting the album title... and my wife Mo for love and support always.



The original haikus which inspired these pieces are shown below, in the order in which they appear on the album:

1. Naviar haiku #346 by Ian Turner:
pause pause pause / a crescendo of silence / wild applause

2. Naviar haiku #342 by Raymond Stull:
Hot summer days / suffer not to surrender / wintry cold water

3. Naviar haiku #341 by Tagami Kikusha:
A fragrant breeze / Is blowing from China / Over these seven strings

4. Naviar haiku #347 by Kobayashi Issa:
two voices that sound alike / make their way... / clouds of blossoms

5. Naviar haiku #327 by Bartosz Leszczyński:
meandering through the city / cars around / infinite game

6. Naviar haiku #328 by Corine Timmer:
flowering fields / expanding the boundaries / of my heart

7. Naviar haiku #345 by Ian Turner:
a cathedral of pines / rising into light / echoes of birdsong

8. Naviar haiku #340 by Inan:
All across the sky / A star has burned itself out / Above the cold sea

9. Naviar haiku #325 by Mark Morris:
true tranquillity / hiding underneath creased sheets - / unknowable blue

10. Naviar haiku #326 by Mark Morris:
rumbling in the mist / a whale soars towards the light - / stories from below

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Jim Tetlow Leicester, UK

Jim has been recording music in some form or other since 1990, currently focusing on a hybrid music combining instrumental and acousmatic elements. He has involved himself in Leicester's thriving music scene since 1997, playing in a number of bands/duos/projects covering a wide variety of musical territory. ... more

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