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homage to Sawako Kato

by DEFAULT STANDARD REC0RDS

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Sawako Kato (1978-2024), who passed away quietly at her family home in Tokyo on March 31, 2024 was a Japanese sound sculptor that divided her time between Tokyo and New York. A classically trained pianist and student of Japanese Nogahku theate, Sawako turned her attentions to video art in the late-nineties and consequently followed the experimental nature of that forum to digital sound design. Both classical and contemporary influences imbue her compositions, which have been described as a 'post-romantic' amalgamation of field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds. Her recordings have as much to do with silence as they do with sound. Although she began releasing album in 2001 on small netlabels, she quickly gained association with micro-ambient champions Taylor Deupree and Richard Chartier of the seminal 12K and Line imprints and that's how we fell in love with her soundscapes and sonic sculptures.

“I would like to create the 0.1-second sound which condenses all emotions in the universe. When I listen to it, maybe my mind and existence itself will collapse.”

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released April 6, 2024

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