Harvestworks is pleased to present a new performance by artist 小宮知久 Chiku Komiya, featuring the KOE Language Songs Project.
📅 Date: Saturday, July 18, 2026
🕓 Time: 2 PM
📍 Governors Island, Nolan Park, Harvestworks Building 10a
The project explores the creation of a synthetic language situated between Japanese and Finnish, developed through phonetic and grammatical similarities shared by both languages. Through this ongoing research, the artist investigates how a newly invented language can generate new forms of singing, vocal expression, and sonic communication.
Combining language creation, sound art, and experimental music, the performance offers a unique exploration of voice, meaning, and musicality through an imagined linguistic system.
BIO:
Chiku Komiya @chikukomiya
Media artist and composer based in Tokyo.
He explores new musical forms by destabilising conventional relationships between voice, language, and musical notation within contemporary media environments, focusing on voice as shaped by multilingual conditions and synthetic technologies.
Working with songs in a self-developed synthetic language, looping relationships between artificial and human voices, and generative forms of notation, he develops works across a wide range of formats, from score-based compositions to media performances and installations.
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