Tomoko Sauvage

Tomoko Sauvage is a Paris-based Japanese composer and artist best known for her original instrumentarium assembling water, ceramics, and electronics. She animates the inanimate through the careful tuning of water in ceramic bowls, making vessels vibrate and magnifying their tiny sounds — ordinarily inaudible — through hydrophone microphones, electronic processing, and close amplification.

Her work centers on the tactile materiality of vibrant objects, metaphorical listening, and the use of chance as a compositional method.