Sonic Habitat | Akari Komura

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Sonic Habitat
(2022 - ongoing)

An ongoing project that explores text-based scores and collages of words that invite acts of listening, soundmaking, and imagining.

https://www.instagram.com/sonichabitat/

no.221 pt.1
sound of home away from home,

sound of satellite dedicated to track satellites

sound of sandals, shoes, boots

sound of clusters of beautiful purple flowers

sound of a $3 ice cream

sound of hummingbirds and bees

sound of baguettes and croissants

sound of oak-filled canyons

sound of meadows of poppies

sound of comfort food.

listen in the ocean waves

listen at nearby beaches

@akarikomura
2026 March

no.220
the wind began to make a noise.
the wires began to make a noise.
the trees began to make a noise.
the keys began to make a noise.
the water began to make a noise.
the motor began to make a noise.
the lights began to make a noise.
the back of your mind began to make a noise.
a petal fell.

@akarikomura
2026 February

no.219 Edgeless Music ⑵
I. Wear unmatched pair of socks for a day.
II. Make music with:
a) every stone on the beach
b) every speech you hear
III. Walk barefoot on the sand.

@akarikomura
2026 February

no.218 for harp
bold and refractive

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2026 January

no.216
s u n s e t
u n s e t
s u n s e ts

listen to sunward side of silence
or make music sunward

@akarikomura
2026 January

no.215
rhythm:
a) to trace a window
b) a window’s shadow
c) to listen for a wind
d) a wind enveloped in shadow
e) snow

@akarikomura
2025 December

no.214
clatter/chatter
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2025 December

no.213
I.
She favored the fear of inhaling over the fearlessness of exhaling. She sang at the top of her lungs. It was a gold and bold point in time. // Recovering on the seabed with corporeal memories, pondering plasticity of neurons in the brain at the rooftop of a soul.

II.
breathe/wreathe
ear/fear
melody/malady
moon/noon
radicle/radical
sea/see
waist/waste
write/writhe

@akarikomura
2025 November

no.212
make a sound that disperses sunlight,
then listen to a seed sensing sunlight
@akarikomura
2025 November
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.211
1) listen to a wavelet
2) wave to a friend
@akarikomura
2025 November
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.210
send a tone;
diffusing a sense of stillness
receive a tone;
residing in silence

send a tone;
dispersing a sense of humor
receive a tone;
dreaming about the width of the sky

send a tone;
expanding a sense of distance
receive a tone;
touching the nearness of music

send a tone; cradling a sense of solitude
receive a tone; remembering a blurry dream

@akarikomura
2025 October
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.209
Edgeless Music
I. Collect leaves and arrange them into a circle.
II. Eat a slice of a round fruit.
III. Observe a clock.
@akarikomura
2025 October
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.208
listen to someone walking to their house.
listen to something walking in the park.
listen to someone walking at the beach.
listen to something walking in the flower field.
listen to someone walking with hot chocolate.
listen to something outside of a theatre.
listen to someone talking on the radio.
listen to something under the cherry blossom.
listen to someone running a marathon.
listen to something at a revolving sushi bar.
listen to someone singing at the market.
listen to something at a kite party.
@akarikomura
2025 September
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.207
listen for something symmetrical
look for something asymmetrical
listen for something asymmetrical
look for something symmetrical

@akarikomura
2025 September
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.206
slip into a gap of sunlight and melt into the silence of sunset
@akarikomura
2025 August
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.205
make a sound of rain colored in gold; listen to the softly whispering light of paper lanterns.
@akarikomura
2025 August
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

no.204
sound of soil that has remained undisturbed for a year
sound of my eyelid listening to the sunlight
sound of a tree reflected in a puddle
@akarikomura
2025 July
#poetry #fluxus #instruction #textprompt #soundartist #soundart #composer #intermedia #textnotation #score
#deeplistening #improvization #acousticecology #soundwalk

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Sonic Habitat (2022 - ongoing)

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Sonic Habitat
(2022 - ongoing)