Xyh Tamura
Transdisciplinary Art-Music-Writing-Research
Xyh Tamura does transdisciplinary art, performance, and research colliding music, writing, visuals, and interaction, exploring intermedia poetics, posthumanities, and the intersections of science, technology, culture, and globalization. They hold a degree in Physics (Theoretical subgroup) from the University of the Philippines Diliman and are currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing (Poetry).
Their work involves experimental songwriting, electronic literature, videopoetry, conceptual and generative art, and participatory approaches, incorporating science, digital environments, and multimedia experiences often approached from an intersectional, Filipino (Ilonggo) and Japanese perspective. Xyh has developed web-based tools for image manipulation and audio visualization and is working in music, from composing film scores, audio engineering, to being a session musician. They do research in philosophy, social development, and science. They also do work in graphic design, fashion, and virtual worldbuilding.
collaboration with Bea Mariano live scorer, sound artist, composer, writer, and spoken/vocal performer
2025
A live score performance for a short film by Bea Mariano, integrating sound art, music, and vocal performance includes digital vocal pieces, field recordings, microsound, ambient music
An audio poetic monologue
2025→
media art algorithmic poem generating an archipelago based on special Unicode characters and scripts of cultures with precolonial contact with Manila
exhibited at
2025
as physical installation with Orange Pi and monitor exhibit curated by Dayang Yraola
collaboration with Bea Mariano live score
2024–2025→
short film/videopoetry with live score performance & transmedial online project
researcher
2025
academic paper
researcher, participant, and presenter
2025
academic and literature/artistic presentation for workshop on theories of emotion
digital media manager
2025→
mixed media art collective
researcher, participant, and presenter
2025
academic and musical/artistic presentation for an international forum on music
collaboration with Mono by Phono event designer, performer, composer, artist
2025
Filipino vaporwave and hauntology event series and multimedia project
music album
intern, artist-researcher, developer, translator, facilitator
2025
Community menstrual awareness workshop & arts-based storytelling method
Self-reflexive essay, generative affect weaving, & interactive map
2025
three textual-visual drawings fusion of maps, diagrams, and manipulated photographs; poetry, prose, and asemic writing
2025→
intermedia poetic suite combining electronic literature, experimental music, web art, and multiple languages includes electronic and conceptual poetry; videopoetry with archival recordings; experimental songs, sound art, and conceptual performance; drawings and glitch art; science writing; text co-authored with GenAI
2025→
hybrid collection of experimental literature revolving around the metalloids includes New Weird and slipstream fiction; science writing; sci-fi horror; divinatory, kinetic, and prose poetry; non-fiction; and dark ambient music
researcher
2024→
researcher
2024
researcher, participant, and presenter
2024
presentation for a workshop on LLMs
v0.1, v0.3 2024→
digital poetry/videopoetry/docupoetry/web art on communal hauntology & seismic events
v0.1, v0.2 2024→
academic paper lyric essay co-authored with GenAI
researcher, developer
2024
policy research developed the Makwela or Photostory Map: a geographical, participatory, and photovoice-driven storytelling method with an interactive map
documenter, researcher
2024
policy research
streamer, video and audio editor, music composer, social media assets
2020→
actual play ttrpg group
music composer, sound designer, & sound recordist
2019
documentary
end credits built from melodic fragments of Ilonggo folksongs
collaboration with MASM lead singer, music composer, producer, mixing & mastering, album artist
2015
synthpop/vaporpop EP
contributing author
2013
fiction
contributing author
2012
poetry
music composer & glass harp performer
2009
concert with audiovisual sections music composed from non-human nature sounds
2009
instrumental electronic music based on simple waveforms, Philippine gongs, and vertical composition