Xyh Tamura
Interdisciplinary Artist, Singer-Songwriter, and Researcher
Xyh Tamura is an interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary artist, singer-songwriter, and researcher engaging with posthumanities, techno-global ontologies, and vernacular cultures. They are a graduate of Physics (Theoretical subgroup) from the University of the Philippines and are currently taking a masters in Creative Writing.
Currently, Xyh's work involves experimental pop, intermedia and conceptual art, videopoetry, and electronic literature leveraging digital environments and multimodal experiences, often from a personal, intersectional, Filipino (Ilonggo) and Japanese perspective and incorporating the sciences. Their research and work tends to explore how technology and globalization shape ontologies, and how global, subcultural, countercultural, and vernacular lifeworlds evolve alongside these changes. They are also looking into the perception of tuning systems across cultures and developing post-MIDI technologies to support non-standard tuning systems in music.
collaboration with Bea Mariano · live score · 2024
intermedial online project, short film and videopoetry with live score performance
researcher · 2024→
researcher, participant, and presenter · 2024
A workshop on LLMs · presentation of How does Esposito’s “Artificial Communication” compare with Gygi’s Japanese “Emergent Personhood”?
solo work · 2024
academic paper lyric essay with GenAI
researcher, developer · 2024
policy research · developed the Makwela or photostory map research method
documenter, researcher · 2024
policy research
DJ, fashion designer, event coordinator, 3d mesh artist, graphic designer · 2022→
streamer, video and audio editor, music composer, social media assets · 2020→
actual play ttrpg group
contributing author · 2013
fiction
contributing author · 2012
poetry
keyboards, secondary vocals, and arrangement · 2011–2015
music composer & glass harp performer · 2009
concert with audiovisual sections · music composed from non-human nature sounds
solo work · 2009
instrumental electronic music · based on simple waveforms, Philippine gongs, and vertical composition