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About framingsounds

Chris H Lynn is a filmmaker and sound artist from the United States

End of year recap

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2025:  Massive gratitude to Frequency with Hiroko Komiya and Atsushi Takenouchi in
in Greece, Japan, and the US and everyone who contributed to the shows
Screenings in Italy, Japan.
Switchboard for Landscape Tempos 1-50 in Berlin
Beyond Encounters on listen.camp 
and Substratum for playing all of Full Moon Garden.
all who viewed/listened/engaged.
Best wishes everyone.
 Looking forward to 2026.
Stay tuned.

Beyond Encounters #26 tracklist and archive

  1. Pier 52, Seattle, Washington (new)
  2. arrive/depart slowly (new)
  3. Chesapeake Bay in December (unreleased) audio sourced from camera
  4. On the way to Suzhou Bay (Unreleased) audio sourced from camera
  5. fading into street (new)
  6. Early morning in Kumano (new)
  7. Frequency in Motion rehearsal w. Hiroko Komiya at Black Mountain College Museum
  8. Piano improv in Embros theatre, Athens, Greece.
  9. Piano Improv in Carol Belk theatre, Ashville North Carolina
  10. December morning (new)

Frequency Impressions in Seattle by Himiko

Below is a lovely poem/text by a  Japanese dancer and calligrapher, Himiko, who attended the Frequency in Motion performance in Seattle. I will post my own report soon.

Text is in Japanese

Photo: Hiroko Komiya

Butoh Dancers: Atsushi Takenouchi, Joan Laage, Vanessa Skantze.

Live Sounds, Field Recordings, Objects: Hiroko Komiya and Chris H. Lynn

Super 8 and Digital Film: Chris H. Lynn

Lighting design: Stella Kutz

Location: Yaw Theater, Seattle Washington.

音と映像と舞踏が溶け合う世界。
なんとも不思議なリズムと波。時々、音に合わせて
流れてくる朗読。時に朗読は
意味を
追ってしまうけれど海外で聞く日本語は
一つの波動として
音として
耳にたどりつく。

でも、あらためて
日本語の
音霊の
波動の高さを感じさせられた。

踊りも3人の舞踏家がみごとに
いろんな波の響きを
生み出してくれて
見応えが素晴らしかった。

音と映像と舞踏が、
どれかが飛び出すこともなく
見事に響きあう世界。

とても居心地のよい空間。

いまでも、
まだ余韻が残っています。

素敵な作品でした。

A world where sound, image, and dance melt into one.
Such strange rhythms, such waves.
Now and then, flowing with the music,
comes the voice of narration.
At times the narration
pulls me toward
meaning—
but hearing Japanese from abroad,
it reaches my ears
as vibration,
as sound,
as one wave among waves.
And yet, once again,
I was made to feel
the spiritual resonance of Japanese,
the elevation of its sonic frequencies.
The three dancers, too, were magnificent,
creating such various
reverberations of waves—
the performance was breathtaking.
Sound and image and dance:
none leaping ahead of the others,
but resonating together beautifully.
A space so comfortable to be in.
Even now,
the afterglow remains.
It was a wonderful work.
Himiko

arrive depart slowly

Blue grey

spaces and rain

pine trees endless

to the sky

early morning sunrise

pioneer square

coffee

watching ferry boats

arrive depart slowly

clouds breaking

misty rain

chatter and movement

long shots on the pier

returning sound more beautiful than before.

Beyond Encounters #25 tracklist and archive

1.Asakusa temple (new)-Hiroko Komiya
2. Warsaw Market-
3. Improv Piano at Chance House (Unreleased)
4. Wednesday Lesson on Courtship 
5. Opening From Chance to Deal  film
6. Antibes 23 (new mix)
7. May 21, 2024- Hong Kong (excerpt)
8. Traveling in the rain (new)
9. Improv Piano in Carol Belk Theater (new)
10. Seminary late October (new)

Lots of new things on here and a few old things as well. Bif thanks to Hiroko for new recording.