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The Paris-based Japanese artist and composer Tomoko Sauvage will bring her unique, electro-aquatic sound world to ALICE this spring. Using a simple setup of water-filled ceramic bowls and electronics, she creates subtle and patient ambient sounds that seem to suspend time. After a beautiful and meditative performance at this year’s Roskilde Festival, we’re thrilled to welcome Tomoko Sauvage to our stage in Nørrebro. The Norwegian composer and sound artist Ingri Høyland opens the evening with her atmospheric soundscapes.

“I could soak in it forever,” The Wire once wrote of Tomoko Sauvage’s unique electro-aquatic soundscapes. With a minimal setup of water-filled ceramic bowls and hydrophones, the Paris-based Japanese artist crafts a delicate, experimental, and patient soundscape by gently touching the surface of the water. The result is a slow, sensory ambient music that can calm even the most restless souls. Sauvage’s intuitive approach to composition explores the beauty of chance and the tactile nature of materials, creating a musical space that constantly balances between control and spontaneity.

Sauvage is a trained jazz pianist, having studied in New York in the early 2000s. She moved to Paris in 2003, where, after listening to Terry Riley and Alice Coltrane, she became interested in Indian music traditions and began exploring the classical Indian water instrument, the jalatharangam. Her musical journey resonates in her unique electro-acoustic works with water, which she has performed at venues such as the Barbican Centre, Palais de Tokyo, MaerzMusik, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, and the Roskilde Festival, transforming both intimate and large spaces into deeply personal sound experiences. We are excited to bring this extraordinary Japanese sound artist to our stage this spring.

Said about Tomoko Sauvage
“The wobbly, chiming vessels turn tuned water into a sort of natural synthesizer, complete with organic forms of envelope, modulation, pitch bend, and decay. … The result is soothing and sensual, like a long hot bath. I could soak in it forever.” – The Wire

“Musique Hydromantique” is a work very much in the tradition of visionary artists like Alvin Lucier and La Monte Young. It is an album that only Sauvage could have created, and it’s hard to imagine anyone else pushing this direction further; yet this simple, pure, and meditative work reveals a world of captivating possibilities.” – Brainwashed

Ingri Høyland
The Copenhagen-based Norwegian composer and sound artist Ingri Høyland invites her listeners on a sensory sonic journey through the diversity of emotions. By blending her voice with acoustic elements, minimalist electronic sounds, and drones, Høyland creates an atmospheric soundscape that blurs human and artificial boundaries.

With a passion for cross-disciplinary work, Ingri Høyland has composed for everything from film and dance to installations and performances. She was invited by CPH:DOX to create music for the cult sci-fi film “Catepillar” and has crafted works for SMK, where she brilliantly interpreted visual art through sound. Under the moniker Hôy la, she has performed at festivals such as Roskilde and Berghain. We are thrilled to present Ingri Høyland this evening, as she sets the stage for Tomoko Sauvage.