The digest of sawako's 1st album "Yours Gray" (2004) which was the first real CD release of and/OAR, Seattle based field recording label. (and/OAR was the CDR label before the release.)
This release features collaboration work with Toshimaru Nakamura, Mitchell Akiyama, Asuna and Yuichiro Fujimoto. Aoki Hayayo and hofli (Takashi Tsuda) participated as the field recordist of Toshimaru Nakamura's live performance.
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なつかしい音源が出てきたから、あげてみたよ。for those who know sawako's sound recently . . .

Yours Gray (digest version)

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. 
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Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR(USA) and Anticipate Recordings(USA). She had collaborated and/or improvised with Taylor Deupree, asuna, HYPO, Ryan Francesconi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Andrew Deutsch, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kenneth Kirschner, Daisuke Miyatani, kyoka, Ken Ikeda, Haruka Nakmura, Radiosonde, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. 
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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 Deluxe, Bullets, gift_lab, Vacant, Apple Store (Japan).

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