Category Archives: Art

Beyond Encounters #31 tracklist and archive

All new material. Big thanks to Hiroko and Space theater

  1. Seminary Birdsong
  2. Untitled (new)
  3. Rain in Busan
  4. Frequency rehearsal in Space Theater w. Hiroko Komiya
  5. Slow cinema (excerpt)
  6. Untitled (new)
  7. Port of Busan w. Hiroko Komiya
  8. Slow Cinema excerpt
  9. Gwangalli beach
  10. The length of the evening (excerpt) new
  11. Seminary birds with rain

 

 

 

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

Frequency in Motion live in Barcelona

I am very happy to announce the release of Frequency live in Barcelona !

Frequency in Motion- is an Audio visual performance with Butoh dance.
Projecting Super 8mm and digital film from the fragments of landscape. Soundscape from live improvised sounds, field recordings, poems and voices. The dancers’ and the performers’ symbolic and suggestive presence, movements and shadows.

Recorded in ‘Frequency in Motion’ live performance at CC Convent De Sant Agusti 25yrs anniversary program in Barcelona, Spain on November 20,2023.

Live sound;
Chris H. Lynn ; Piano / Field Recordings / Objects
Hiroko Komiya ; Zither / Lap harp / Voice/ Objects / Field Recordings

Recorded voice & text: David Gazsi, Carla Rihl
Sound mix & Recording: Xavier Carbonell
Super 8mm film / digital film : Chris H.Lynn
Cover still from super 8mm film : Chris H.Lynn

Thanks for Butoh dancer Marlène Jöbstl and Atsushi Takenouchi !

Look for some live sounds from Mexico and Hong Kong in the future.

Tracklist for Beyond Encounters #4

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There is quite a bit of unreleased material on this show, which will air on Camp Radio on 12/25/23, so I provided a tracklist with some descriptions below:

    1. Edge of Presence improv rehearsal with Hiroko Komiya in Warsaw (6/19/23) recorded by Atsushi Takenouchi.  Sounds audible: I am writing with a feather pen on a notepad  with contact mics attached . Hiroko is reading her nautical journal, while circling a stone. I adjusted the  EQ for the file later.
    2. Warsaw Morning (future release)  Field recording: Hiroko Komiya. Keyboard:CHL.
    3.  Inside Nanjiing teachers college (slow humid afternoon). This piece was not used in the River Thoughts film.
    4. The effect of exhaustion extract 2. A short piece from Simone Weil’s Factory Journal. Text: Simone Weil Voice: Hu Manrong. I provided the sounds. This track appeared on this site on 2/08/20.
    5. Fellow traveller- Unreleased
    6. Train engine -Unreleased
    7. A night run in late December, Loire Valley-Unreleased
    8. Potomac River, Christmas Morning.  Appeared on this site 12/25/14
    9. Morning Sea-Unreleased
    10. Barcelona Bells-Unreleased
    11. Boardwalk, late December, seaside. Unreleased.
    12. Evening with snow-sounds now heard as song-10 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays !