Tomoko Sauvage

International Summer Festival 2024

Tomoko Sauvage is a Paris-based Japanese sound artist who studied jazz piano in New York and performs at prestigious museums, from Palais de Tokyo in Paris to Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. With her Waterbowls, she has developed a “natural synthesizer”: an electro-acoustic instrument made of porcelain and glass bowls filled with water, electronics, and underwater microphones. Sauvage plays her Waterbowls live at Waldbühne in the festival Avantgarden. By using random percussion with water droplets and hydrophonic feedback controlled by manual water waves, the artist crafts a delicate, metaphysical sound sculpture blending natural elements and technology.