Author: tomokosauvage

Performance/ installation at la Gaîté Lyrique, Paris

Melting ice blocks dropping notes and reflecting light… Thank you all the staffs at La Gaîté Lyrique for realizing this ! performance/ installation view at la Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 27 Jan 2013 © Patrick Rimond

Long-duration performance / installation with waving feedback drones

Every room has its own melody. – Alvin Lucier [EN] Lately I’ve been proposing long-duration performances/ installation for a small – medium room, often in unconventional sites (galleries, museums, warehouses… ideally with natural reverbs). The performance takes place in an installation, which can also operate by itself, and lasts for 3 to 6 hours. I […]

chronique sur ‘Ombrophilia’ dans le CHRONIC’ART

De Tomoko Sauvage, on ne sait pas grand chose, sinon qu’elle est japonaise et vit à Paris. Formée d’abord à la musique carnatique et jouant des ragas, elle a développé depuis quelques années son propre instrument, unique et modulable : un jeu de bols de porcelaine de taille variable, remplis d’eau, dont elle joue comme […]

Ombrophilia reissued on vinyle

Initially released by and/OAR in 2009, a long-awaited re-issue of ‘Ombrophilia’ on version vinyl by a french/belgian label aposiopèse is now available. Distributed by Metamkine. Also available in digital format @ bandcamp

Momus writes about ‘Ombrophilia’, The WIRE May 2009 issue

“……The music I love most right now is a preview of ‘Ombrophilia’, the debut album by my friend Tomoko Sauvage, due from Seattle label and/OAR later this year. Ombrophilia means ‘an abnormal love of rain’. Tomoko uses wooden cooking spoons to strike and stir Chinese porcelain rice bowls filled with water. The wobbly, chiming vessels […]

ASPER#1 NOYADE/ SAUVAGE

dokidoki + udo released an album vinyl ASPER#1 in December 2009. Side A : NOYADE (Erik Minkkinen + David Lemoine) Side B : Tomoko Sauvage Both sides are the recordings of the live performances at udo bar in September/ October 2009.