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naviarhaiku660 – shrine fence

The haiku shared by Naviar Records this week prompted me to think of how a person might disappear into the background.

There's our little producer

Disquiet Junto 0765 Sonic Kin

The Junto assignment this week is to "Give space to the unheard voices of animals."

I sometimes hear dogs in the neighbourhood complaining on cold mornings.

This morning I was having a conversation with my partner that brought to mind the unhappiness of animals and how we live in an area characterised by industrial agriculture.

For example, nearby there are hundreds of sheds that surround the largest chicken-processing facility in the southern hemisphere.

So my mind started pondering giving a voice for animals and I wrote lyrics, then constructed a song.

When she looks through your phone

Disquiet Junto 0764 Zoo Review

There is one step for the project: "Since the Disquiet Junto is a community, create the sense of an animal communal gathering by combining processed animal sounds into an original recording."

Honestly, at first I wasn't sure that I needed to do the Junto activity this week.

I've recorded a similar sort of song about 20 years ago and didn't think I could improve on it.

However, when I looked at my Facebook Memories today there was a theme and it encouraged me to reconsider.

It seemed as though a couple of my posts from this date in previous years were pointing me toward this project.

So I settled on seven creatures that I thought I could imitate and recorded myself.

Then it was a matter of gating and looping and selecting effects to create a short tune.

They just raised the volume

naviarhaiku659 – bright enough

The haiku shared by Naviar Records demanded a pace for losing sight of something as celestial as the moon.

Under the same moon

Write your name

When you yawn

naviarhaiku658 – Among bare branches

The haiku shared by Naviar this week intrigued me, but I wondered if I was missing something.

So I asked a large-language model to consider the poem and interpret it as song lyrics.

The first response didn't really grab me, but it had the line "my ears yawn open" which I liked.

Then I pondered the idea of going out on a limb and the sense of the sky being a view of the unknown.

This morning I finished writing and recorded lyrics using a simple melody and tried a few musical ideas before settling on a dancefloor banger.