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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 at Black Mountain College Museum on 10/30/25

Very excited and honored to announce the premiere of Frequency in Motion in the United States at the historic Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, NC on 10/30/25. Go here for info. Here is a trailer as well. More info on this exciting show !

Switchboard photos and Full Moon Garden on Substratum

The Switchboard Gallery in Berlin uploaded some beautiful photos from their exhibition last month. You can go here to view. You can also view some of the Landscape Tempos as well. Danke Switchboard !

In audio news, I would like to thank the Substratum radio show for playing  Full Moon Garden   on his radio show on 10/13/25.

You can listen to the archived show here-

Deep thanks Arash. 

More news soon.

 

Upcoming events for Autumn and Winter

Very excited to announce upcoming performances and screenings for the autumn and winter season.

10/30/25-Frequency in Motion at Black Mountain College Museum

11/21/25-Frequency in Motion at Yaw Theater in Seattle, Washington

1/26/26-Frequency in Motion at The Old Hairdresser’s in Glasgow, Scotland

2/7/26-A Night of new Landcape films at The Film-makers-Cooperative.

I will provide links when available and dates may change, but for now this is accurate.

Super 8 still is from Japan, April 2025

Frequency in Motion in ARTEIDOLIA

Deep thanks to the wonderful  ARTEIDOLIA for giving me an opportunity to discuss Frequency with Hiroko Komiya Komiya and my screening event in Japan.
You can go here to read the article
Photo credit: Stephen Black from the show in Kumano
The video in the article is from our Hong Kong performance in 2024
Special thanks to Daniel Barbiero for suggesting this.