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Sawako’s crystal radio work, “ishi ~ listening stone,” was mentioned in “Handmade Electronic Music” by Nicolas Collins.
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“ishi ~ listening stone” is commissioned by Roulette with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation and was premiered on December 2007.
October 9th, 2009 by sawako
Oct.3rd(Sat) - NIJIKA:EVENT @ Brooklyn
. NIJIKA : EVENT
. . . an ephemeral intimate event about light and sound
. . . like fireflies in the city
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NIJIKA : EVENT is the outdoor event version of Sawako’s installation “Nijika” with special guests. “Nijika” created an ephemeral environment with physically modulated video projections, lights and sound. It is an installation as well as a nomadic salon, a performance stage, and a part of everyday life.
. 2009.10.03 (Sat) 19:00-21:00 @ Grand Ferry Park, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Location: between Grand Street, West River Street and the East River
…audio performances:: o.blaat, Roberto Carlos Lange, sawako
…visual performances:: CJ, sawako
…environmental setup:: sawako
. RAIN DAY INFORMATION: if the weather is unsure, the decision will be posted on twitter. please check: http://twitter.com/sawakohome
. more info
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October 1st, 2009 by sawako
summer summer summer
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it’s already the end of July . . . ! i had busy season with shows & creations since my last post. check performance page for more info.
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here is a photo with mica bando @ Tanabata Festival, Supercore. (photo by maki kaoru)
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i will go to Florida Keys in late August for a dolphin study & field recordings. also, I will play dB Festival, Seattle in late Sept and an outside “nijika” event in early October.
July 28th, 2009 by sawako
free download “Scattered Practices” by Ezekiel Honig
until May 10th from http://ezekielhonig.com/scattered/index.php
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the cd (and “Early Morning Migration”) made me decided to release from Anticipate.
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—–from ezekiel honig’s mySpace blog————
. If you don’t already have my Scattered Practices album, which was released on Microcosm Music in September, 2006, please feel free to download it here:
. http://ezekielhonig.com/scattered/index.php
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I decided to put up a link to the album until May 10, as a show of appreciation for the support and feedback for my work as well as that of Anticipate as a whole. Thank you to all who have been listening, coming to shows, talking about the music. Maybe you have this album already, but if you don’t, grab it before May 10.
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As you may read on the album page, I would appreciate it if you refrain from re-posting the files anywhere, but rather, send people to the link above to find it. Thank you.
April 13th, 2009 by sawako
lo-fi felicia in NYC !
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i am organizing some shows & exhibit for my french friend, felicia atkinson. really special events with humble tiny music and everyday dreamy art. both venues (monkey town & super core) are offering special dishes and drinks. come to see us and enjoy. la la la . . .
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other performers are . . . robbie lee’s portative organ (a small hand-pumped medieval-style wooden pipe organ), Justin Waldron’s DJ, misaki tanaka’s live drawing + performance. le le le . . .
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She released her 1st album “la la la” from tokyo based my love spekk label. (mondii !) if you don’t know about spekk, they have nice collection of tiny sound gems with the outstanding package. in usa and rest of the world, you can order spekk’s cds in 12k shop.
February 19th, 2009 by sawako
Colofirld Variations
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DVD compilation, “Colorfield Variations” is now available from L-ne. Including my audio/visual work, “flirting 07121602.” This is the first DVD appearance of my visual work.
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Colorfield Variations is a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists and assembled by curator and sound artist Richard Chartier.
February 19th, 2009 by sawako
turbulence : fundraising
turbulence is in the situation of uncertainty about the survival, and even only $5 will become a help for them.
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if you don’t know about them, they commissioned many online works as well as have 2 great informatic blogs - Network_Music_review and Networked_Performance.
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here is the forward of email . . .
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As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our organization’s survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either require a membership fee — thereby blocking public access to our sites; or we must take them all offline: Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, Networked_Music_Review, and New American Radio.
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We do not wish to do either.
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At this point our only hope is that those of you who have not yet contributed to our Campaign for Sustainability will decide to do so.
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Networked_Performance alone is accessed by 32,000 unique visitors per month; many of you return three or more times. If each of you were to give $5.00, we could continue to make our sites freely available.
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Please act now. Pay via PayPal here or mail a check to:
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New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
124 Bourne Street
Roslindale
MA 02131
January 2nd, 2009 by sawako
HNY2009
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hope many miracles happen for you in 2009 !
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if you are in NYC area, i have following schedule in 2009…
Dec 31 :Old Office @ Knitting Factory : farewell to the Leonard St. Knit
Feb 9 : and/Oar night @ The Stone (NYC)
Feb 23 : artist talk @ Harvestworks (NYC)
Mar 7 : “Live in LIMO” @ Armory Show (NYC)
Apr 1 : MATA Festival @ Le Poisson Rouge (NYC)
May 15 : water music (tentitive title) @ Roulette (NYC)
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Mid.April : field trip to Hawaii to record nature, ocean and dolphin song!
December 23rd, 2008 by sawako
zoot & p.s.1
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i am in the zoot magazine’s OFFF Festival feature page /w. OFFF’s director, hector and oriol.
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also the video interview of mine is in P.S.1’s Warm Up page. go to “P.S.1 Tour in 3D!” section. check it out.
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November 23rd, 2008 by sawako
autumn shows
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2 of my sweet Japanese friends, Keiichi Sugimoto (12k, Cubic Music, Four Color, FilFla, Minamo) and Sanae Yamasaki (12k, moskitoo) will come to North America, and we will play in Boston, Canada and NYC. This is the North America premier for Moskitoo, Sanae Yamasaki, and for the special show in IPR, I may play the piano & sing . . . !?
. Oct. 20 (Mon) 4:00PM - 5:30PM FREE : (617) 266-1400
David Friend Recital Hall @ Berklee College of Music
921 Boylston St. (Uchida Building) Boston, MA, 02215
Four Color + moskitoo + sawako
. Oct. 21 (Tue) 8:00PM Issue Project Room
The (OA) can factory, 232 3rd street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Four Color / FilFla + moskitoo + sawako
. Oct. 24 (Fri) 7:30PM $12 Send+Receive Festival
Urban Shaman Gallery, 203 - 290 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg Canada
Four Color + moskitoo + sawako + Taylor Deupree
October 5th, 2008 by sawako
fine diving
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i will play at morgan packard & eva’s fine diving on Sept.20th (sat) at Grand Ferry Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The event is 2pm - 10pm, and i will play around 5ish.
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it seems CJ do a time & light installation. might be with some bubbles, too. it should be nice early autumn chilling outside event.
September 11th, 2008 by sawako
summer tour remix vol#2
After a long submission and deliberation process, the second volume of Summer Tour Remixes is now available, for completely free download, on the Anticipate site.
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As with Summer Tour Remixes Volume 1, Volume 2 uses Sawako’s field recordings, from her Summer 2007 tour of Europe and Japan, as source material for new works which jump off from those origins into a number of divergent, but complementary directions. Volume 2 was an open call submission process, which elicited some excellent material, and subsequently made it difficult to narrow it down into this lean eight track compilation with versions from:
Alexander Wendt (12×50)
Billy Gomberg (mOAR, Install)
The Green Kingdom (SEM, The Land Of)
Ieva (AMBOLTHUE)
Marihiko Hara (mOAR, Leerraum, U-cover, Zymogen, Rimacona-Lab)
Thomas Hildebrand (Microcosm)
Tim Prebble
Tomasz Bednarczyk (Room 40)
August 20th, 2008 by sawako
hi bi no ne
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the departure from “a last next” arrives to “hi bi no ne” (= means “dairy sound” in Japanese),
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the collaborative CD with Daisuke Miyatani. mastered by Taylor Deupree.
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i am singing more, and some tracks are the indie DIY cute toy style.
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you can listen some of excerpts in schole’s mySpace page.
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it’s the limited release CD format only. (no digital release.) special paper format.
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in Japan, you can buy the CD in Tower Record, HMV, Tsutaya etc.
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outside Japan, check the label site or sawako’s petite shop
July 17th, 2008 by sawako
MADOROMI : OUT of STOCK !
i got the news that the label/main distributer (Anticipate/KOMPAKT) has
no more stock of my 3rd album “Madoromi.”
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hurry up to get the CD (it’s come with the special poster jacket !) like all of my previous releases, it will not be available as physical format soon.
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i am surprised the fact that “madoromi” sold out quicker (9- months) than “hum”, especially now many people are mumbling how difficult to sell physical CD . . . !
. ps. for those who are waiting the result of Summer Tour Remix Vol#2, it will be release sometime soon. we were asking to make one track shorter. coming soon . . .
July 15th, 2008 by sawako
bubble bubble bubble !
June 28th, 2008 by sawako
sawako summer shows
June.18(Wed) 8:00PM $15 @ Issue Project Room
Premier of new compositions for 15 hemispherical speakers in Floating Point Festival.
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Sawako (www.troncolon.com) weaves the intimate sound scape
with fragments from her recent trips + sine tone + subtle voice.
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Tristan Perich (www.tristanperich.com/) shows his new work
with 5 voices and 15-channel 1-bit electronics + a short piece for 3 violins.
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http://www.issueprojectroom.org/
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F/G to Carroll/Smith, or M/R to 9th St/4th Ave
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. July.12th(Sat) @ Warm Up, P.S.1
I am the opener and will play at 3:00PM. bring soap bubble makers and have fun ! big hug for Zach Layton who curates me for the show * * *
Sawako : Freeblood : DJ Spun (Rong Music) : Scotty Coats (RVCA, LA)
www.ps1.org
. July.22th(Tue) 9:00PM FREE @ WFC Winter Garden
River To River Festival presents
KIERAN HEBDEN (Four Tet) & STEVE REID
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Nicolas Collins Devil’s Music
with Koen Holtkamp, Collin Olan & Sawako
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Hebden and Reid create an abstract sound that incorporates elements of hip-hop, electronica, jazz and folk music, with live drumming and percussion. Opening the show, Collins and his band perform Devil’s Music (Premiered in 1985), an improvised work using samples of live radio.
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There are many great free events like Kode9 (July.1st) and US Premiere of
Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto (July.15) at WFC in this summer.
Check the site —> http://www.worldfinancialcenter.com
June 15th, 2008 by sawako
myu myu
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the princes on the lily pad arduino. i made this : )
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learning needle felting to make my controller.
May 15th, 2008 by sawako
OFFF Lisbon 2008
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luv and luv
May 12th, 2008 by sawako
4th album: bitter sweet is out !
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living in the dream
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arriving to the depth of millage
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listening again and again
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midnight abyss
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sand and wind, bubble and puddle
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grasp them before disappearing
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special 6 panel digi pack with photos of maki kaoru
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available at 12k shop, sawako’s petite shop and iTune(coming next month, i think), shops in the world.
” by Nicolas Collins.
