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 Haiku:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku636-beyond-the-talus/

And the Stay Cool project: https://ree.org.au/stay-cool/

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 about Naviar Haiku:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku635-can-you-hear-the-stars/

And the Stay Cool project: https://ree.org.au/stay-cool/

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.com/2026/03/04/naviarhaiku634/

Listen to my track:

https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/always-something-naviarhaiku634

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://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/left-behind-naviarhaiku633

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Ascolta haiku #632: slowly gliding — / a snail in the grass / follows the clouds., una playlist creata su #SoundCloud.
https://on.soundcloud.com/EqMSIC4q20go7TSx7o

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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/naviarhaiku632/

Listen to my track:

https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/at-my-own-pace-naviarhaiku632

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.bandcamp.com/track/defeating-the-purpose-naviarhaiku631

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This is a track I created for the 630th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge. This week’s prompt mentions a falling leaf, and so did the poem a few weeks ago, so my usual strategy of looking for themes in preset names was not available since I didn’t want to use the same sounds. I was still able to find sounds that fit the theme.

Read more about Naviar Haiku:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku630-one-leaf-falls/

Read more about my process behind the track:

https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/naviarhaiku630/

Listen to my track:

https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/again-naviarhaiku630

Here’s my track for the 629th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge. It’s the middle of winter and we have been experiencing some of the snow and freezing temperatures from the edge of the storm sweeping the US, so it was difficult to relate to the prompt poem about an autumn storm.

Read more about Naviar Haiku:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku629-autumn-storm/

Read more about my process behind the track:

https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/naviarhaiku629/

Listen to my track:

https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/face-down-naviarhaiku629

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I submitted a track for the 628th #NaviarHaiku Music Challenge. Believe it or not, at one point this track built up to a trip-hop type beat with a heavy plucked bass synth. I scratched all of that and stuck with a simpler overall composition.

Read more about Naviar Haiku:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku628-in-the-dark-beyond/

Read more about my process behind the track:

https://thgirwnhoj.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/naviarhaiku628/

Listen to my track:

https://thgirwnhoj.bandcamp.com/track/i-could-not-hear-you-naviarhaiku628