IMAI, Chikage

Chikage Imai is a composer whose work often integrates music with other artistic disciplines. Her projects include "Synecdochism III" (2022), a multimedia piece combining music, photography, and visual art. She also composed "Extract Transcendent - mirror" (2022), a two-part work for soprano and visual art, with sections titled "Beauty with obscureness" and "Transience of life."

Earlier works include "Synecdochism II " (2016), a video installation based on "Vectorial Projection IV" (2008), which also involved music, photography, and visual art. Imai's "Synecdochism I " (2008) featured a film with a Karate-do Kata performance. In 2005, she contributed to "At one's elbow," a project that included dance performance, stage design, and musical elements featuring soprano saxophone and guitar.