sawako
(Live: 10th April)
official bio... "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. Her releases have been reviewed by The Wire (UK), BlowUp (Italy), e|i magazine, NY Art (USA), We Make Money Not Art (online), Improvised Music from Japan (Japan) and others, and her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig.

Sawako did audio and/or live performances in Japan (offsite, metro, uplink, Super Deluxe, apple store, trees are so special etc.), USA (Warm Up @ P.S.1/MOMA, WFC, TONIC, monkey town, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Fiske Planetarium, Corcoran Gallery, Starbucks Salon, UCLA Hammer Musium etc), Lisbon (OFFF Festival), Paris (batofar), Canada (MUTEK Festival), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), berlin (m12) and UK (Glade Festival, resonance FM, ICA London), and has collaborated with a wide range of musicians such as Andrew Deutsch, Asuna, Yuichiro Fujimoto, HYPO, RF, heller, Jacob Kirkegaard, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Daisuke Miyatani, Nobuko Hori, Kenneth Kirschner and Taylor Deupree."
http://www.troncolon.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sawako