Tomoko Sauvage is a Japanese sound artist and musician from Yokohama, based in Paris since 2003. She plays an instrument of her own design made of porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified through hydrophones, a kind of natural synthesizer that produces sound from waves, drops, bubbles and underwater feedback, shaped by the acoustics of each room. Sauvage studied jazz piano in New York and later Hindustani improvisation, and a 2006 concert of Indian water-bowl music led her to start working with bowls.
*2024 Stock* This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies. The Middle Matter is a…
Ginevra Bompiani (w/ Caterina Barbieri and Tomoko Sauvage) - Il Calore Animale / Francesco Cavaliere - Zoomachia Disc 1
After some brilliant releases by Soundwalk Collective over the last few years, Dischi Fantom returns with the first two installm…
*Edition of 200* Ginevra Bompiani is most likely unknown for fans of experiential music. In Italian literature and thinking, however, she is highly regarded writer, editor, translator, essayist, and academic, whose fiction, particularly, is informed…
Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage embody a tactile audio visual display, radiating the color green into sounds and painting meditative music. By transforming collected objects into invented instruments and scenography, each motif becomes a dedic…
Fischgeist is the third solo album by Tomoko Sauvage, a Paris-based Japanese experimental musician and sound artist. For more than a decade, she’s been working on her unique ‘natural synthesizer’ by combining water, hydrophones and glass or ceramic b…
Reverse board-printed inner and outer sleeve; Edition of 500. Musique Hydromantique is the second solo album by Tomoko Sauvage archiving many years of her performance-based practice on the waterbowls -- the natural synthesizer of her invention, compo…
Ombrophilia is a collection of sound experiments I made with porcelain bowls filled with water between 2006 and 2008. Inspired by Jalatarangam, traditional Indian instrument, I started to play the 'waterbowls' with wooden spoons and metal wire (M…