El Wud Experimental Ambient Project

Inspired by the following haiku written by Anne Carpenter. She is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between #NaviarRecords and Red Earth Ecology - that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration. Darkness cocoons, Red and yellow slowly creep. Silence disappears. Picture by Jason Richardson

Inspired by this haiku I wrote for The Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge (www.naviarrecords.com - https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records) slowly gliding a snail in the grass follows the clouds (thanks to Marco for the translation from Italian to English) Picture by Wolfgang Hasselmann

Inspired by the following haiku written by Takahama Kyoshi, a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. A single paulownia leaf sunlit as it falls to the ground. @naviar-records Picture by Gayatri Malhotra.

Imagining a microphone placed inside a mole’s tunnel, the piece gathers and transforms barely perceptible underground sounds. A listening practice directed toward what usually remains beneath the surface.

Under a vague and dim light by El Wud

There are moments when sounds and images fall like rain from the clouds of memory.

The idea for this track was born from listening to a piano experiment by Meccaniche del Suono (https://soundcloud.com/meccaniche-del-suono/2-di-3-hole-third-disquiet0698). The sound of the piano (Meccaniche del Suono) made me imagine that moment of suspension in the air just before the rain. I thank the author (@meccaniche-del-suono) for the permission to rework and publish the track. I invite you to visit his very interesting Soundcloud page.

This song is for Palestine. The voices at the end of the track were recorded during a pro-Palestine demonstration in Naples. My name has dissolved letter by letter, into the air. My dreams have vanished in a timeless sky I don't remember my face Jewish soldiers stole it They dissolved it And now I no longer have a name, nor a face Like my land, torn and devastated.

Inspired by the following haiku written by Andrea Cecon, a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life… thinking of us the sound of wind among the pines Picture by Ali Kazal @naviar-records

Inspired by the following haiku written by Konishi Raizan, a famous haiku poet of the Genroku period (1688-1704). spring dream… not becoming unhinged is what’s unbearable Haiku by Konishi Raizan (https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/raizan.php) Picture by USGS (https://unsplash.com/it/foto/a-red-blue-and-green-fluid-painting-on-a-black-background-hoS3dzgpHzw) @naviar-records

Inspired by the sound of a music box recorded several years ago (you can listen to it at the beginning and at the end of the track)

The idea for this track was born from listening to a vocal experiment by Wildsilences (Wildsilences is no longer on SoundCloud, but will forever stay on Bandcamp, https://wildsilences.bandcamp.com/). I tried to reproduce the voice as if it were a sound far from the sea. I thank the author for the permission to rework and publish the track. I invite you to visit his very interesting Bandcamp page.

Re-elaboration of human breathing, voices and cat purrs

Track created by processing a lonely voice recorded in a street of Naples. For all the suffering, forgotten and unheard voices of the world.

Inspired by the following haiku written Kyorai a Japanese haiku poet: autumn wind... I am stringing a plain-wood bow This is one of Kyorai's most famous poem, and one that Natsume Sōseki used as an example of great haiku poetry when teaching at a high school in Kumamoto. Haiku by Mukai Kyorai Picture by Mukai Kyorai https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

Inspired by the following haiku written by Ōshima, a Japanese poet of the Edo period. they spoke no words the visitor, the host and the white chrysanthemum Haiku by Ōshima Ryōta Picture by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

Inspired by the following haiku white petals on the stormy sea - floating memories Thanks to Naviar Records for the opportunity (https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku545-white-petals/) Picture by Hans Isaacson

Inspired by the following haiku by Raymond Cobley (https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley) sudden dazzling glare the low sun briefly pierces a veil of dark cloud https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-542-sudden-dazzling

Inspired by the following haiku written by Hosai Ozaki: Wordless all day long the shadow of a butterfly https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku532-wordless/

This track draws inspiration from the rhythms and sounds of popular music from southern Italy (Neapolitan tammuriata and pizzica salentina) with electronic processing and recordings of voices and sounds from some Neapolitan markets. The Laurieddhu is a mischievous elf from the folklore of southern Italy, in Naples he is known as Munaciello. He never appears during the day. Very similar and corresponding figures to this spirit are also found in other Italian regions or in the tradition of the Irish Leprechaun.

Inspired by the following haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi: Endless echo footsteps on an empty house once full of life Naviar Records: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/25/naviarhaiku512-endless-echo/ Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Inspired by the following haiku written by Darren Bourne: Caterpillar Opens her new wings Metamorphosis You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual) and Youtube, and check out his website to find out more about his publications and merchandise: https://www.halfunusual.com. Thanks to Naviar Records: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/23/naviarhaiku503-caterpillar/

The idea of ​​this track comes from listening to the track Un Momento 2 by Rosmarino Baia(https://soundcloud.com/rosmarinobaia). Komorebi (木漏れ日)in the Japanese language is the light that filters through the leaves of the trees, a brief but very intense moment that expresses a state of mind, a feeling that is elusive, like the rays of the sun filtering through the leaves trees in a forest or during an eclipse. A magical sensation, but at the same time also melancholic, which reminds us of the impermanence and constant changeability of all things.Thanks again to Rosmarino Baia for the collaboration, I invite to visit his very interesting page and listening to his great music: https://soundcloud.com/rosmarinobaia

Inspired by this haiku written by Santōka, a wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, he was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku. Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity. Early morning, One star remaining, It’s a good day too. Haiku by Santoka Taneda https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm Picture by freezydreamin https://unsplash.com/photos/SV3V-D1G2q4 For more information visit https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

Inspired by this haiku written by Mark Miller, an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight (Ginninderra Press, 2020). Sudden breeze every strand of the spider’s web in tune Picture by Tamas Kolossa https://unsplash.com/@kolossaphoto Thanks to Naviar Records: https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-473-sudden-breeze-every https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/01/25/naviarhaiku473-sudden-breeze/

Inspired by this haiku written by Jessica Renee Dawson: Beautiful chaos the leaves’ quixotic dance in autumn winds Haiku by Jessica Renee Dawson https://twitter.com/live_the_light Picture by Autumn Mott Rodeheaver https://unsplash.com/@autumnmott Thanks to Naviar Records: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/12/14/naviarhaiku467-beautiful-chaos/

A false awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep. After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing daily morning routine such as showering, cooking, cleaning, eating, and using the bathroom. False awakenings, mainly those in which one dreams that they have awoken from a sleep that featured dreams, take on aspects of a double dream or a dream within a dream. A classic example is the double false awakening of the protagonist in Gogol's Portrait (1835).(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening) Thanks for some sounds used in this track: https://freesound.org/people/PhonosUPF/sounds/494119/ https://freesound.org/people/Jedo/sounds/396864/ https://freesound.org/people/rsellick/sounds/545531/ https://freesound.org/people/the_very_Real_Horst/sounds/220559/ https://freesound.org/people/reacthor/sounds/238073/ https://freesound.org/people/funkymuskrat/sounds/221475/ https://freesound.org/people/tosha73/sounds/495771/

The concept of the “wood-wide web” is a term that’s been coined by scientists and biologists studying the underground systems of roots and fungi which ultimately create a family tree of connections across the planet. In short, all forests “hold hands” under the earth. Communicating through a subterranean internet, trees are able to feed those in need from miles away and grow stronger together According to Suzanne Simard, who’s been studying the phenomenon for decades, while it may not be immediately visible, it creates palpable energy. “When I walk into a forest, I feel the spirit of the whole thing, everything working together in harmony,” she tells Smithsonian Magazine’s Richard Grant. “It doesn’t make evolutionary sense for trees to behave like resource-grabbing individualists,” Simard explains, noting that instead, a “healthy stable forest” benefits most when everyone thrives. “That’s why they’ve evolved to help their neighbors.” (https://alpynbeauty.com/blogs/alpyn-crush/woods-wide-web)

Heterotopy is a term coined by the French philosopher Michel Foucault to indicate "those spaces that have the particular characteristic of being connected to all the other spaces, but in such a way as to suspend, neutralize or invert the set of relations that they themselves designate, they reflect or mirror ». The mirror is, for example, heterotopic, we see ourselves where we are not, in an unreal space that opens virtually behind the surface but which, at the same time, is an absolutely real place, connected to all the space that surrounds it. Thanks for some sounds used in this track: https://freesound.org/people/jbdelgado/sounds/569527/

Inspired by this haiku: falling leaves deep in the forest I see a buddha A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku. Haiku by Santoka Taneda https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm Picture by Evgeni Evgeniev https://unsplash.com/@evgenievgenief Naviar Records: https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records Thanks to Lamat for Aum Mantra used in this track (https://freesound.org/s/145785/)

Inspired by this haiku written by Mark Wright, an archaeologist and anthropologist with a research specialty in Mesoamerican poetics, both ancient and modern. eruption of light deconstructing the darkness beauty for ashes haiku by Mark Wright https://twitter.com/markeology https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-442-eruption-of-light

Inspired by this haiku: Tall trees gently wave Sending secret messages Into the Spring breeze The author John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue Picture by Amanda Mocci https://unsplash.com/@amandamocci Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/01/naviarhaiku439-tall-trees-gently-wave/

Inspired by this haiku by Charles Lawler (https://twitter.com/Charliepoetry) Going in circles a promising journey without end Picture by Thomas Millot https://unsplash.com/@tmillot https://www.naviarrecords.com/ (Experimenting with words and sounds)

Earth to Fire/Fire to Ashes/Ashes to Clouds/Clouds to Stones/Stone to Life/Life to Earth

Stones To Life by El Wud

Life To Earth by El Wud

Fire To Ashes by El Wud

Earth To Fire by El Wud

Clouds To Stones by El Wud

Ashes To Clouds by El Wud

Inspired by this haiku written by Yoshida Donguri, haiku poet who lives in Hokkaido White and white Heaven and bottom useless –Winter cloudy https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/01/26/naviarhaiku421-white-and-white/

The idea of ​​this track comes from listening to the song On an October Afternoon (https://soundcloud.com/hanklebury/on-an-october-afternoon?si=f24254bc966e4342b4f42c2717f43f59&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) by Hanklebury (https://soundcloud.com/hanklebury). I processed the voice present in the track as if it were a distant chant... Thanks to the author for the permission to rework and publish the track. I invite you to visit his very interesting Soundcloud page.

Inspired by this haiku written by John Hinks, a prolific and talented composer. A day of rainbows As Summer gives way to the Damp days of Autumn haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-405-a-day-of-rainbows-as

Inspired by this haiku written by Italian haiku writer Andrea Cecon. cicadas the stillness begins https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/09/01/naviarhaiku400-cicadas/ https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

In special and general relativity, a light cone is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event (localized to a single point in space and a single moment in time) and traveling in all directions, would take through spacetime. The idea of ​​this track comes from listening to the song Ukraten (https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/ukraten) by Boson Spin (https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin). Thanks for the permission to rework and publish the track.

Inspired by this haiku written by Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937), an important advocate of the free verse haiku. far fireworks sounding, otherwise not a thing Besides being a writer and critic of haiku, Hekigoto was a literary scholar, noh dancer, art critic, calligrapher, social commentator, and mountain climber. https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-392-far-fireworks

Inspired by this haiku written by Tan Taigi, a haiku poet of the Edo period. each and every star is brought to light – how cold https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/04/14/naviarhaiku380-each-and-every-star/ https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-380-each-and-every-star The title of the track is taken from a phrase by Adrienne von Speyr (1902 –1967), a Swiss mystic.

Inspired by this haiku written by Nozawa Bonchō (1640 - 1714): The long, long river A single line On the snowy plain The world line (or worldline) of an object is the path that object traces in 4-dimensional spacetime. It is an important concept in modern physics, and particularly theoretical physics. Thanks to Naviar Records (@naviar-records) for their fantastic work. To listen to the playlist: https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-375-the-long-long-river This track is also in the Naviar Haiku 22 by V/A, https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/naviar-haiku-22?from=fanpub_fnb

This track was composed and recorded in collaboration with Ras Caleb (drums and percussion), a polyhedric artist (painter, sculptor, musician) and a dear friend of mine. Visit his web pages: https://soundcloud.com/user-561328220 - http://www.farella-arte.com The Taiji dolphin drive hunt is based on driving dolphins and other small cetaceans into a small bay where they can be killed or captured for their meat and for sale to dolphinariums (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_dolphin_drive_hunt). During the entire six-month long hunting season dolphins are routinely subjected to harassment, suffering and abuse. Dolphins are chased, injured, manhandled, run-over by skiffs, dragged, drowned, taken captive and slaughtered. Entire pods of dolphins are decimated, from the very young to the very old. (https://www.dolphinproject.com/campaigns/save-japan-dolphins/) Sea in the cove turns red with blood as dolphins are slaughtered. The massacre of dolphins in Taiji is the symbol of human indifference towards Life.

Inspired by this haiku written 344 years ago by the great Matsuo Basho: things just happen things just happen until the end of the year https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/30/naviarhaiku365-things-just-happen/