She expresses the image which comes from the air, space, and own inner body, and transforms it into the sound without bound melody or rhythm. The sounds are quite simple and unique, and it exists as if the weather and environment. She uses natural material and essence, such as water, stone, bamboo, sands, leaves, sea shells, as well as small bells, percussion, and drums in her music. And she also use voice which is primal and native feeling. Since 2002, she has worked with native voice with tribal singer Jean. C. Dussin (traditional inuit, africaine, celtique, circle song) who is also a poet and percussionist. The collaboration work performance with Jean. C. Dussin, “KOE”; which is 10 dancers group piece choreographed by Atsushi Takenouchi, was shown in Paris in 2003 at Theatre du Lierre in the 4th Butoh festival and also in New York, and it won a reputation.

She also makes sounds and music in his JINEN Butoh workshop, feeling and making a dialogue with participants’ breath and momentary transformation of their movement. She makes music for the workshop for dancers, actors, and also for the disabled, and children in Japan, France, Poland, USA, etc.

words for 1st solo album " eau nouvelle " 


Avec ce disque, Hiroko Komiya nous dévoile tout un monde secret, traversé  de mille sons qui se répondent délicatement les uns aux autres. Par ses gestes, elle redonne vie aux objets qui l'entourent, les inscrivant au coeur d'une récit extrêmement personnel. 
Ce qui est bouleversant lorsqu'on écoute cette musique, c'est cette capacité  qu'elle a à exprimer tellement de choses, rien qu'avec des sons. Néanmoins, Hiroko ne se contente pas d'inventer un nouveau langage; avec elle, chaque son, lentement, patiemment, se transforme en évocation de la vie. 
Car il s'agit bien là, avant tout, de poésie – mais d'une poésie du geste qui, de par ses qualités expressives proprement inouïes, s'adresse directement à notre coeur, redonnant un nouveau souffle à chacune de nos respirations, une nouvelle force à notre fragilité.

François-Xavier HUBERT

With this record, Hiroko Komiya unveils an entire secret world made of a myriad of sounds that keep answering one another with utter delicacy. Through her gestures, she gives a new life to the objects that surround her while inscribing them into the fabric of a very personal narrative. 
What strikes us when we listen to this music is how it is able to express so many things  only through sound. However, Hiroko doesn't just invent a new language ; with her, every sound, slowly, patiently, becomes an evocation of life. 
Because poetry is what we're dealing with here – but here is a poetry of gestures which, through its unique expressiveness, speaks directly to our hearts, giving new life to our every breath, a new sense of strength to our every move. 

François-Xavier HUBERT