| Target audience: | General public |
| Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Price: | 5€ and 10€ |
| Location: | Deck |
The Japanese artist sculpts sound in her rituals. Her compositions combine the sounds of water, ceramics and electronics, while her playful interaction with environments employs chance as a compositional method.
Tomoko Sauvage’s performances adopt the unpredictable fluid dynamics of the materials that make up her sound universe: water, ceramics, underwater amplification and electronics.
She has performed and presented her installations at RIBOCA, V&A Museum, Manifesta, Roskilde Festival, Sharjah Art Foundation, Centre Pompidou Metz, Museo Reina Sofía, Nyege Festival and other venues.
Her third solo album, Fischgeist, was recorded in a Berlin water tank and released by Bohemian Drips in 2020. More recently, her art installation was exhibited at Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) and Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), with the support of La Pommerie/CRAFT and Aquarian Audio.
Tomoko Sauvage is a musical artist born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. Since 2003 she has lived and worked in Paris, relocating to the city after completing her jazz piano studies in New York. After listening to Alice Coltrane and Terry Riley, she became interested in studying and improvising with Hindustani (Indian) music. Fascinated by the sonority of the Jalatharangam, a traditional musical instrument consisting of porcelain bowls filled with water, Sauvage was keen to immerse herself in an electro-aquatic medium using an underwater microphone.
