Yokohama-born and based in Paris since 2003, Tomoko Sauvage is a musician and sound artist. With Waterbowls—an electroacoustic instrument devised by the artist to treat the fluidity of water as material—Sauvage presents performances, recordings, installations, and video works in experimental music. Tuning and setting into vibration her idiosyncratic assemblages of porcelain bowls, stones, shells, glass, and diverse forms of water—droplets, ripples, bubbles—she amplifies otherwise imperceptible micro-sounds to shape immersive sonic landscapes. Her practice embraces a metaphorical approach to listening and indeterminacy as a compositional method. Recent performances include the Barbican Centre (UK), Palais de Tokyo (France), Haus der Kunst (Germany), Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Wonder Cabinet (Palestine), and Nyege Nyege Festival (Uganda). Her installations and video works have been shown at the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (USA), and Galerie Chantal Crousel (France). Her work has also been featured on radio by BBC (UK), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany), France Musique (France), NPR (USA), and ORF (Austria).

Portrait　©Yoshihiro Inada