Xyh Tamura

Transdisciplinary Art-Music-Writing-Research

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xyhtamura0@gmail.com

Xyh Tamura does transdisciplinary art, performance, and research working across music, writing, art, 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).

Xyh’s current practice involves experimental songwriting, electronic literature, videopoetry, and conceptual art, incorporating science, digital environments, and multimodal experiences from an intersectional Filipino (Ilonggo) and Japanese perspective. They are developing post-MIDI solutions to support non-standard tuning systems in music and have created web-based applications for digital image manipulation and audio visualization. Xyh also does research in philosophy and social development, composes scores for film and video, produces, mixes, and masters music and audio, does graphic design, and is involved in makeup and fashion.

HuníTsura

2025

web-based audio visualizer crossfading between two images

Raising Awareness and Sparking Conversations on Menstruation

Atipan+ General Workshop 2025: Strengthening Health Connections: Empowering Indigenous and Rural Communities through TelehealthUniversity of San Agustin Center for Informatics

researcher, developer, translator, and facilitator

2025

social development research, discussion and awareness activitiesdeveloped the Istorya sang Bȧlatyagon or Affect Atlas: a participatory, arts-based, and geographic storytelling method

Where You Were Last Seen

2025

three textual-visual drawings fusion of maps, diagrams, and manipulated photographs; poetry, prose, and asemic writing

Of Another Shore

2025→

intermedia poetic suite combining electronic literature, experimental music, web art, and multiple languagesincludes 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

GaHueMa

2025→

web-based image hue manipulation tool through attraction/repulsion

Table of Metalloids

2025→

hybrid collection of experimental literature revolving around the metalloidsincludes New Weird and slipstream fiction; science writing; sci-fi horror; divinatory, kinetic, and prose poetry; non-fiction; and dark ambient music

Entangled forests: Women’s climate action in the Brazilian Amazon and the Philippines

researcher

2024→

Manifest

Of Echoes & CurrentsImmersive ArtSearch Mindscape Foundation

collaboration with Bea Marianolive score

2024→

short film/videopoetry with live score performance & transmedial online project

Gender Studies at the Intersections: Water, Climate Change, and DRRM

researcher

2024

How does Esposito’s “Artificial Communication” compare with Gygi’s Japanese “Emergent Personhood”?

LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language UseDenkwerkstatt Berlin

researcher, participant, and presenter

2024

A workshop on LLMs

Shook

2024→

digital poetry/videopoetry/docupoetry/web art

Cybernetic Inquiry into the Urbanomic Linguistics of Coconut Husk Archaeoacoustics: Illuminating Crocodilian Dynamics and Techno-Ethnographic Tellscape Analysis

2024→

academic paper lyric essay co-authored with GenAI

Plasticoid

2024→

interactive digital collage & visual poetry

Participatory stakeholder engagement to build a constituency for a proposed Non-motorised transport plan and policy in UP Diliman

researcher, developer

2024

policy researchdeveloped the Makwela or Photostory Map: a geographical, participatory, and photovoice-driven storytelling method with an interactive map

Technical-Vocational Education and Training & Lifelong Learning

The Second Congressional Commission on Education

documenter, researcher

2024

policy research

Sail

Cye Tamura

2023

pop ballad

Second Life

DJ, fashion designer, event coordinator, 3d mesh artist, graphic designer

2022→

The Dice Cult

streamer, video and audio editor, music composer, social media assets

2020→

actual play ttrpg group

Memory of Jaro

music composer, sound designer, & sound recordist

2019

documentary

Asó nga Tin-awend credits built from melodic fragments of Ilonggo folksongs

Lie Know Me Do Hyacinth

xyh

2012-2018

experimental pop songs with IDM elements, using granular synthesis & total serialism

Handaan

music composer

2018

short film

Palibut-Libot

music composer

2018

short filmFilAm Creative Film Festival 2023 Best Short Film

Perihelion

2017

electronic experimental chamber pop song

Paludarium

2016

vector-based self-portrait

Pacing To

masm+xyh

Crooked Tree Records

collaboration with MASMlead singer, music composer, producer, mixing & mastering, album artist

2015

synthpop/vaporpop EP

In VinylCollecting Amber

Re.Doubt2Belfort and Bastion Publishing

contributing author

2013

fiction

Untitled 4

Issue 16High Chair

contributing author

2012

poetry

Tao Aves Band

keyboards, secondary vocals, and arrangement

2011–2015

Pin Sunstroke

2013

odd meter shoegaze/dream pop with reggae elementsdrone/noise with chant

Hey Ophiuchus

Filipino Freethinkers

contributing author

2011

non-fiction article, science writing

FF Podcast

Filipino Freethinkers

music composer

2010 & 2019

introduction music

Ave Maria, Gaia Mystica

music composer & glass harp performer

2009

concert with audiovisual sectionsmusic composed from non-human nature sounds

Meiosis

Asian Composer's League

2009

instrumental electronic musicbased on simple waveforms, Philippine gongs, and vertical composition

The Magic Staff

librettist, songwriter, lead actor

1999

musical