{"id":2206,"date":"2010-10-01T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:31","slug":"improvising-with-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/2206","title":{"rendered":"Improvising With Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/sauvage1_enl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2207\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 20px;\" title=\"sauvage1\" src=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/sauvage1_enl-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Tomoko Sauvage\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><strong>From High Zero Festival: Tomoko Sauvage And M.C. Schmidt In Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by porcelain bowls, a mixer, effects pedals and bottles of Perrier, we sat rapt with curiosity as Tomoko Sauvage took the stage of the Theatre Project with Matmos member M.C. Schmidt. Sauvage poured carbonated water into the bowl closest to her, and she manipulated and looped the movements of the water itself, accented by the tranquil clinks of porcelain. Suspended above her mic stands were paper cups filled with water; she tore them ever so slightly, periodically releasing drips into the bowls below. It was an elegant (and more palatable) solution to John Cage&#8217;s chance operations, responding to random droplets with loops and delays through a mixer.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/sauvage.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tomoko Sauvage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130241078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Zero Festival site<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From High Zero Festival: Tomoko Sauvage And M.C. Schmidt In Concert Surrounded by porcelain bowls, a mixer, effects pedals and bottles of Perrier, we sat rapt with curiosity as Tomoko Sauvage took the stage of the Theatre Project with Matmos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/2206\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elettroacustica-mus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17589,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/17589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}