WAVES × WORDS is an intermedial performance ensemble. We work at the intersection of poetry, electronic sound, and live visuals. Our pieces are developed for specific spaces and contexts – as commissioned works for museums, exhibitions, and festivals.

WAVES × WORDS consists of poet Ken Yamamoto, electronic musician Alexandre Decoupigny (Alex Sopht), and visual artist Claire Fristot (A-li-ce).

We work site-specifically and in close dialogue with curatorial concepts. Our pieces are developed for each location and attuned to museum spaces, acoustic conditions, and visual environments. The performances are time-limited, but conceived for lasting impact—as an experience, not a document.

We develop performative formats in which language is not simply read, but becomes audible, physical, and spatial. Poems meet drone, field recordings meet voice, projections meet rhythm. Sound, text, and image respond to one another. Our performances are not a sequence of individual contributions, but a shared state: open, improvisational, precise.

A recurring theme in our work is materiality – of water, the city, memory, or bodies. We are interested in processes: flowing, layering, dissolving. Words can tilt, sounds can carry, images can blur. In this way, fragile landscapes emerge between concentration and openness, between presence and disappearance.

Together, we create intermedial performances of 30 to 60 minutes that approach poetry as a medium to be experienced live.