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- Sawako
- Sawako is a sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the camera to sound. Sawako takes the sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - and vividly places them in a space of digital, yet organic texture.
She has recently made a name for herself with her own unique combination of field recordings and DSP combined with a noticeably feminine touch. Her 2nd album, "Hum" (12k, 2005), is an elegant and detailed work in which she consciously brushes against the fringes of melodies by extracting and processing the sounds of everyday life.
She has the solo releases from 12k, and/OAR, grain of sounds, community library and Anticipate. Her releases have been reviewed by The Wire (UK), BlowUp (Italy), e|i magazine, NY Art (USA); Improvised Music from Japan (Japan) and others, and her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound," by Boston's Weekly Dig.
Sawako has collaborated with a wide range of musicians such as Taylor Deupree, Andrew Deutsch, Kenneth Kirschner, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, asuna, Ryan Francesconi and Jacob Kirkegaard, and has performed in Tonic, Diapason, Monkey Town, BAP Festival (NYC); Mutek Festival (Canada), Batofar (Paris), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), offsite, Apple Store Sinsaibashi (Japan); m12 (Berlin), Glade Festival, Resonance FM (UK); and other venues in the US, Europe and Japan.
Sawako obtained a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Born in Nagoya, Japan, studying the classical piano over 10 years and Japanese Nohgaku Theatre for 6 years when she was a child.
http://www.troncolon.com
http://myspace.com/sawako
