Xyh Tamura

Interdisciplinary Artist, Singer-Songwriter, and Researcher

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xyhtamura0@gmail.com

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.

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

researcher · 2024→

LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use

Denkwerkstatt Berlin

researcher, participant, and presenter · 2024

A workshop on LLMs · presentation of How does Esposito’s “Artificial Communication” compare with Gygi’s Japanese “Emergent Personhood”?

Shook (ongoing)

solo work · 2024

electronic literature/videopoetry/web art

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

solo work · 2024

academic paper lyric essay with GenAI

Plasticoid (ongoing)

solo work · 2024

interactive visual collage poetry

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

researcher, developer · 2024

policy research · developed the Makwela or photostory map research method

Technical-Vocational Education and Training & Lifelong Learning

The Second Congressional Commission on Education

documenter, researcher · 2024

policy research

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

Handaan

music composer · 2018

short film

Palibut-Libot

music composer · 2018

short film · FilAm Creative Film Festival 2023 Best Short Film

Pacing To

collaboration with MASM · 2015

synthpop/vaporpop EP

In Vinyl · Collecting Amber

Re.Doubt2 · Belfort and Bastion Publishing

contributing author · 2013

fiction

Untitled 4

Issue 16 · High Chair

contributing author · 2012

poetry

Tao Aves Band

keyboards, secondary vocals, and arrangement · 2011–2015

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 sections · music composed from non-human nature sounds

Meiosis

Asian Composer's League

solo work · 2009

instrumental electronic music · based on simple waveforms, Philippine gongs, and vertical composition

The Magic Staff

librettist, songwriter, lead actor · 1999

musical