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• sawako

  Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Once through the processor named Sawako, subtle fragments in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR (USA), BASKARU (France) and Anticipate (USA). She had collaborated or improvised with Taylor Deupree, asuna, HYPO, Ryan Francesconi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ken Ikeda, Andrew Deutsch, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kenneth Kirschner, Daisuke Miyatani, Kyoka, Radiosonde, Haruka Nakamura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig. She has performed internationally as an audio and/or visual artist in MUTEK (Canada): Warm Up at P.S.1, Armory Show, Diapason, Le Poisson Rouge, Tonic, Diapason, Monkey Town, Issue Project Room, Roulette, World Financial Center Winter Garden, Starbucks Salon, BAP Festival (NYC); Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC); UCLA Hammer Museum (LA); OFFF Festival (Lisbon); MACBA, CosmoCaixa, Sonar Festival (Spain); Glade Festival, Resonance FM, ICA (UK); Batofar (Paris); m12(Berlin); Offsite, Super Delux, Bullets, gift_lab, Vacant, Apple Store (Japan). Her works are mentioned in "Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music" (Oxford University Press) by Joanna Demers, "Handmade Electronic Music" (Routledge) by Nicolas Collins and "Transmission Arts : Artists and Airwaves" (PAJ Pablications) by Galen Joseph-Hunter and others. Her work has been featured in The Wire (UK), Blow Up (Italy), Improvised Music from Japan (Japan), NY Art (US), e/i magazine (US), DEBUG (Germany), Go MAG (Spain), GAFFA (Denmark) among others. Sawako obtained a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University where she studied Networked Expression, Physical Computing, Post Linear Narrative and Audio/Visual Studies. She received a B.A. from Environmental Information Department at Keio University, SFC, Japan. Born in Nagoya, Japan, studying the classical piano over 10 years and Japanese Nohgaku Theatre for 6 years when she was a child.

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• Yuri * Maki

  インドネシア共和国バリ島のガムラン音楽の中で、主に影絵芝居に用いられるグンデルワヤンという楽器を演奏している。 バリ島への留学や、長期滞在により演奏経験を積み、２００９年よりYuri＊Maki結成。オリジナル曲、バリ島の古典曲を中心に演奏活動を行ないつつ、様々なジャンルのアーティストとの共演も果たす。主な演奏活動：日本国内では様々なインドネシアフェスティバルやワールドミュージックイベントなどに参加し、バリ島ではスカワティ村を中心にお祭りや儀式での演奏経験を持つ。銅板作家 赤川政由氏によるイベント「House de Art」参加（2009～）、木彫人形作家 友永昭三氏展覧会「木彫の乙女たち」など美術館でのゲスト演奏（2010年～）、ワールドミュージックフェスティバル「SUKIYAKI MEETS THE WORLD」にてブラジル音楽楽団BAQUEBAとの共演（2015年）、TACT FESTIVAL2017「月と太陽 –Eclipse-」にてバリ島スカワティ村のアーティストとの共演（2017年）、ファッションブランド「Support Surface spring&summer 2019 collection」での演奏など。

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