KOMIYA Chiku

Profile

Born in 1993. Lives and works in Tokyo. Graduated with an MA in Music and Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018.
Composer, Media Artist. Intending to question the various music norms (notation, performance, listening, etc.), he explores new forms of music in the contemporary media environment and physicality. He has created works interdisciplinary from acoustic music to electronic sound works, media performances, and installations.

Recent activities
2024 “Apparition of Voice,” solo exhibition, monade contemporary, Kyoto
2024 “Let me sing a strange song,” solo exhibition, Retramp Gallery, Berlin
2022 “The Extreme Points of The Echoes,” Collaboration work with historian Dr. Tomotake Kinoshita, concert, Tokyo concerts lab
2022 “SEIRÊNES,” solo exhibition, honkbooks, Tokyo
2021 “The 24th Japan Media Arts Festival,” group exhibition, Miraikan, Tokyo

Awards
2021 The New Face Award of 24th Japan Media Arts Festival
2018 The Second Prize in the 87th Annual Music Competition of Japan, Composition Division

About work / performance

Komiya uses the way of rethinking several norms and forms themselves in music (score, performance, listening, etc.). For example, in his "VOX-AUTOPOIESIS" series, the usual concepts of score, interpretation, and composition overturn in its recursive system in which singers sight read and sing generated scores on the spot, and their voices become the algorithm for score-generating. As the background, there is his question and the beginning of his career as being educated in traditional classical music. By using generative methods with media technology, he proposes new forms of music that can be in the contemporary age.