Reviewed by Badd Press, Bass and Space
This year Naviar Records held the first edition of Naviar Haiku Fest, a day of workshops and live performances in London: www.naviarrecords.com/naviar-haiku-fest
Divided into two acts, the first part of ‘Live at the Old Church’ includes the evening live performances of Audio Obscura, Ikjoyce and Sōzuproject.
Artists from all around the world made music in response to haiku written during the morning workshop. The tracks included in the album’s second half were made by members of Naviar’s online community in 6 hours or less, and performed as dj set before the live performances.
Live:
Audio Obscura
Audio Obscura performs Lap-top based electronics for the ears, haunting the wide spectrum’s of electro-acoustic music with a firm footing in the ambient realm. The sound also strays towards the experimental; musique concrète, idm with post-classical minimal leanings occasionally push through.
Neil has summed up the Audio Obscura sound as thus;
“Light is, to the camera obscura, as sound is to Audio Obscura”
soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music
ikjoyce
ikjoyce makes electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.
Sōzuproject
Sōzuproject is an electronic/ambient music project created in 2012 by the italian based sound artist Paolo Mascolini. His music combines evocative and haunting soudscapes with wonderful moments of luminous sparks, aesthetic qualities and hopes. His album Breath Slowly was published by Naviar in September 2017.
haiku-inspired music by:
Ed Mundio (Australia) soundcloud.com/edmundio1
Jesús Lastra (Spain) soundcloud.com/jalastram
Daniel Diaz (France) soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz
Detritus Tabu (USA) soundcloud.com/detritus-tabu3
Night Note (Czech Republic) soundcloud.com/mmastalka
Yum Haruki (Japan) soundcloud.com/yum-haruki