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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.
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  • Madoromi
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  • bitter sweet
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  • hum
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  • Omnibus
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  • ProgClow

    bitter sweet so sweet

    last month
  • Buffalo-

    Wind Shower Particle brings me to tears.

    November 2011
  • ssssssv

    bitter sweet is BEAUTIFUL

    December 2010
  • muniralive

    strange

    December 2010
  • AlanLaidlaw

    Elegant sounds.

    October 2010
  • propt

    new picture: http://www.last.fm/music/Sawako/+images/52872035

    October 2010
  • StarCoreA

    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.

    July 2010
  • mniszekm

    Her compositions are extraordinarily soothing...

    May 2010
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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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