Category Archives: Audio Visual

Slow viewing room (excerpt

I am happy to share an excerpt from the Slow viewing room, which took place in the Space Theater in Busan, South Korea, in April 2026. I will be sharing more in the future.
Performers: Jun Sangbae and Hwang Miae
Video: Mont Sainte-Victoire from 13 views.

A few notes on UNZA! and Expanded Salon 1

 

Grazi  everyone at UNZA!  Hiroko Komiya, Giordano Costi, Maruska Ronchi for beautiful shows in Italy. I was very moved to hear the reports and the reception of the films, the music, and the dancing. I am really looking forward to doing some more shows in the distant future, possibly in winter. Here are some photos, but I plan on posting more in the archive. I have already posted a few things on social media. More soon.

 

Two audiovisual shows in Italy w. Hiroko Komiya July 3rd and 4th

Fri 3 July 2026
An audiovisual concert / Milano
-Fragments Accumulate-

3 July 2026 — 21:30 (approx.)
Chris H. Lynn (objects, field recordings, piano, image & Super 8 manipulation
Hiroko Komiya (voice, objects, lap harp, zither)
Memory, sound, and image intertwine in an evolving landscape of fragments, resonance, and
transformation.
Unza!
Cortile delle Associazioni
Via Luigi Bianchi d'Espinosa 7, Milano (Niguarda)

Sat 4 July 2026
Film, Music & Movement / Crema
Expanded Salon #1
An intimate, limited-capacity living-room gathering where sound, image, and movement
converge into shifting resonances and poetic perception. Featuring performances and
interventions by Hiroko Komiya, Chris H. Lynn, Giordano Costi, and Butoh artist Maruska
Ronchi.

Super 8 film: Chris H. Lynn
Live soundscape: Giordano Costi, Chris H. Lynn, Hiroko Komiya
Movement presence: Maruska Ronchi
A subtle exploration of embodied gesture, field recordings, objects, voice, and experimental
film within an immersive domestic setting.

I will update more info soon. Very excited.

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

 

 

 

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