Tomoko Sauvage : Ombrophilia  is a collection of sound experiments I made with porcelain bowls filled with water between 2006 and 2008. Inspired by Jalatarangam, traditional Indian instrument, I started to play the ‘waterbowls’ with wooden spoons and metal wire (Mylapore, Jalatarangam Revisited). Since I immersed hydrophones in them, I have tried various ways of resonating the bowls without touching their surface : flicking, stirring, waving and dripping water…  All the compositions here are multitracked and edited on computer.
I also inserted thin layers of field recordings I made in South India, notably in beautiful Mylapore of Chennai.