About

NAMI

NAMI is an ever-evolving, modular audiovisual collaboration between composer/guitarist Christine Southworth and artist/photographer Jun Hoshino, in which they transform the gently chaotic wave patterns of moving water into layered sonic and visual environments.

Hoshino’s unfiltered iPhone framings of the spontaneous luminosity of New England ponds and streams are literally made into sound by Southworth’s data sonifications, then layered into electric guitar textures that produce a distinct soundscape for each video

Modular Performance

Always changing form

Each audiovisual clip functions as modular material, creating quilted digital backdrops unique to each iteration and performance environment. Southworth and Evan Ziporyn use these textures as the basis for ambient improvisations on electric guitar and clarinet, both processed in real time with a variety of effects pedals.

NAMI can also be performed with other musicians and adapted for projected concerts, gallery installations, or distributed environments. Like wave interference itself, its components combine into continuously shifting forms.

View performance samples

Audience Experience

The audience enters the work

Audience members can choose to experience this immersive environment passively, or to add to the texture by streaming Jun Hoshino’s water videos, each with its own music, on their mobile devices. By keeping screens visible and sound on, they create additional shifting cross-patterns that merge further with the images and sounds in the performance space.

NAMI premiered in this configuration at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California, on June 21, 2026.

Watch the complete premiere performance