From Shelter Press' website : 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, composed with porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones (underwater microphones). While her first album Ombrophilia (released on and/OAR in 2009) was studio-recorded /composed work, Musique Hydromantique is about experimentation and improvisation with the environment – acoustics affected by the architecture, temperature, humidity and the human pre… read more
From Shelter Press' website : Musique Hydromantique is the second solo album by Tomoko Sauvage archiving many years of her performance-based pr… read more
From Shelter Press' website : Musique Hydromantique is the second solo album by Tomoko Sauvage archiving many years of her performance-based practice on the waterbowls – the natura… read more
Tomoko Sauvage, Japanese musician and artist active since mid-2000's, investigates the sculpturality of sound and improvisation in relation to the environment. Mainly known for a musical/visual research about natural synthesizer of her invention, composed with diverse fluid, bowls, ceramic, light and underwater amplification, Sauvage's approach is attached to questions of alchemy, meditation and balance between hazard and mastery. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sauvage moved to Paris in 2003 after studying jazz piano in New York. Through listening to Alice Coltrane and Terry Ril…read more
Tomoko Sauvage, Japanese musician and artist active since mid-2000's, investigates the sculpturality of sound and improvisation in relation to the environment. Mainly known for a music… read more
Tomoko Sauvage, Japanese musician and artist active since mid-2000's, investigates the sculpturality of sound and improvisation in relation to the environment. Mainly known for a musical/visual research about natural synthesizer o… read more