It takes 8 years to finish, so many memories are layered, blurred and convoluted that I don’t clearly remember what was the start point.
what does Stella Epoca mean?
- the new era of stars
- stardust candies
- birth of new stars
i hope it will become a sounding amulet for the future life of listeners.
i hope people will enjoy to create their own constellations with the sounding stories.
My advice to someone starting on the music path:
believe yourself and dream. move hands (for programming, scoring, software operations, instruments playing or whatever) more time than in front of google or SNS. not to decide your limitation by yourself.
these are the advices which I usually say for my Japanese students. But, I think it may change for the cultural background (and mentality, the way of thinking of the person etc).
Human beings have many unique characteristics compared with other creatures here on Earth, including the use of speech, story telling, and the preservation of history. What is music?
from the view point of the relationship with creatures, music is the possibility to communicate with them.
What is listening?
opening your ears and body to the world.
Are you able to bring music back from your nocturnal dreams?
yes. actually, it was more than music - something like the source of music which is not able to express with the five senses of human beings of nowadays.
Where do you dream of going (vacation, tour, exploration, by time machine, etc)?
Tibet, South America, Ice Land, Milky Way (both today and ancient time)
What would you like to try that you have not tried yet?
try to go to meet Japanese dolphins in the ocean. and maybe try to learn dolphin songs from them.
P.S. my favorite Japanese pop song when i was 10 years old was “DOLPHIN SONG” by Flipper’s Guitar.
i think because the track is with many samplings, it is not on Spotify. but here is the link of the artist page on Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5fkHPXDNaqz3GrYYhO8APB?si=NFIRiKxjRzuHlAtKpNRXSg
Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist 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. She weaves the poetic soundscape to connect and fuse dream and awake, urban and nature, real and virtual.
Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR (USA), Schole (Japan), BASKARU (France) and Anticipate Recordings (USA). She had collaborated or improvised with Taylor Deupree, HYPO, Ryan Francesconi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Andrew Deutsch, Kenneth Kirschner, Daisuke Miyatani, Kyoka, AOKI Hayato, ARAKI Shin, Haruka Nakamura, Ryuichi Sakamoto among others.
Her tracks were used in “Treelines” the documentary by Patagonia Film and “GEEK GIRLS” the documentary by Gina Hara, and she created the playlist based on the theme of Earth Day for Aesop. Alfred and Kosei Komatsu as well as for the fashion shows of Support Surface.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 PS1, Armory Show, Diapason, Le Poisson Rouge, Tonic, Diapason, Monkey Town, Issue Project Room, Roulette, World Financial Center Winter Garden 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 Publications ) 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 ITP New York University where she studied Networked Expression, Algorithmic Composition, Physical Computing, Ambient Information, Post Linear Narrative and Audio/Visual Studies. She received a BA from the Environmental Information Department at Keio University, SFC , Japan. Since 2019, she is the part-time teacher of Ferris University, Yokohama Japan, where she teaches Media Art and Computer Music for women.
Born in Nagoya, Japan, studying the classical piano and Japanese Nohgaku Theater when she was a child.
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