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Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture.
She has 4 solo albums from 12k, Anticipate and And/OAR, and 1 split album as sawako + daisuke miyatani from Schole.
Her unique sonic world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig. Sawako did live audio and/or visual performances in Japan (offsite, metro, uplink, trees are so special etc.), USA (Warmup at P.S.1/MOMA, TONIC, Corcoran Gallery, UCLA Hammer Museum, Fiske Planetarium, Monkey Town, Roulette etc), Paris (batofar), Canada(Mutek Festival) and UK (Glade Festival, resonance FM, Institute of Contemporary Art in London), and has collaborated with a wide range of musicians such as Andrew Deutsch, Asuna, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Hayato Aoki, Hypo, Kenneth Kirschner, RF, Heller, Marcel Türkowsky, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura and Taylor Deupree.
She has 4 solo albums from 12k, Anticipate and And/OAR, and 1 split album as sawako + daisuke miyatani from Schole.
Her unique sonic world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig. Sawako did live audio and/or visual performances in Japan (offsite, metro, uplink, trees are so special etc.), USA (Warmup at P.S.1/MOMA, TONIC, Corcoran Gallery, UCLA Hammer Museum, Fiske Planetarium, Monkey Town, Roulette etc), Paris (batofar), Canada(Mutek Festival) and UK (Glade Festival, resonance FM, Institute of Contemporary Art in London), and has collaborated with a wide range of musicians such as Andrew Deutsch, Asuna, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Hayato Aoki, Hypo, Kenneth Kirschner, RF, Heller, Marcel Türkowsky, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura and Taylor Deupree.
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bitter sweet
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hum
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Buffalo- wrote:
Wind Shower Particle brings me to tears.
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ssssssv wrote:
bitter sweet is BEAUTIFUL
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muniralive wrote:
strange
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AlanLaidlaw wrote:
Elegant sounds.
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propt wrote:
new picture: http://www.last.fm/music/Sawako/+images/52872035
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StarCoreA wrote:
You might like Hum, that has quite a different sound to Madoromi, which similarly did nothing for me on first listen. Bittersweet is worth checking out too, but I'd say go for Hum first.
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mniszekm wrote:
Her compositions are extraordinarily soothing...
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guilty_cubicles wrote:
played some sawako while djing last night and it really went down well, love 'hum' very very much!
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LLLaureS wrote:
quan lo rosinhols escria, ab sa part la nueg el dia, yeu suy ab ma bell'amia jos la flor...
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dystopiaq wrote:
Hello, I represent Dystopiaq, a new net label. We have our first three releases out with more planned for the coming months. Visit our website at http://www.dystopiaq.com and check out "Dystopiaq 1", a compilation of dubstep, hip-hop, idm, cybergrind, ambient, trip-hop, noise, pop and 8-bit. You can also download it via Archive.org at http://www.archive.org/details/Dystopiaq_1
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Dan_The_Music wrote:
:]
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hitomii wrote:
great music
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fromsoultosoul wrote:
drastic stuff
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seasmeseed wrote:
gentle nosie!!!!!!! :}
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NovembreViendra wrote:
lapon.
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StarCoreA wrote:
try again by sawako
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interhole wrote:
hmm...
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pfetsch wrote:
These recordings make me very happy. Many thanks.
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consciousenergy wrote:
I agree with Marfi00. :) Definitely painting a mental landscape through sound.
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Marfi00 wrote:
what Sawako does with sond is terrific, in my opinion, I think she's not really a musician, it seems more like...she paints with sounds, and is beautiful!
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sawako in Seattle !
23 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/sawako
alloi will play @ dB Festival, Seattle on Sept 27th,
Thursday.i have 1 audio/visual show on the afternoon, then do
the visual for Mountain.it's my first Seattle performance. don't
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JohnnyTmm and Nemophore added Sawako to their libraries. yesterday afternoon
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rjosuke added Sawako to the lineup of Air / Night Blossom RELEASE PARTY ! at Forestlimit. Sunday morning
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mike288 tagged Sawako with electronic, japanese and ambient. December 2011
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