Sawako: Broadcasts live from Apple Island
Japanese sound artist Sawako will start her own live video broadcasting show using Yahoo's Y!Live service. This means that anyone interested in her work will be able to watch her present videos from the vault, interviews with some of her musical partners in crime and even guest stars. The service will also offer visitors event reports from NYC and other cities, studio visits, a "what is in your iPod?" section, and „cute japanese lesson“. The tentative schedule for the first few weeks of Sawako's „Sawako in Apple Island“ show has a high caliber profile: An interview with graphic designer Hikaru Furuhashi, guerilla visits to the mobile music service SHARE and the brand new studio of her colleague Kenneth Kirschner as well as a guest slot by TJ Norris, prolific writer, curator and photographer. The concept of „Sawako in Apple Island“ is an open one: Artists are invited to join the show and Sawako has sent out a call for fashion designers to send her promotional material – which she will wear in photo shoots and videos.
The request to host „Sawako in Apple Island“ came as a total surprise to Sawako. She still feels ambivalent about the idea: „As some of you know, I am not an i-chat person, nor video chat, nor second life. Sometime I refuse to pick up my phone“, she said, „But I am also a person who likes to try something I don’t like - it is like a research experiment using my real life. I have enough curiosity to jump on an offer coming from a different context than my own.“ Her first impressions of the service are not 100% positive either, but she is willing to ignore them for the startup phase, trying to remain professional: „ I think I will do my everyday broadcasting as my work, ignoring what happens there.“
Of course, the show is not intended to be a substitute for her musical activities nor as a digital place of refuge. Instead, it tries to use contemporary technology to bring worthwhile artists together, as Sawako pointed out: „I hope my broadcasting turns into a community for artists (and non artists), into a bridge between the real world body temperature and the easy to access online information world.“
Homepage: Sawako in Apple Island
Homepage: Sawako
Related items
Comments
Add a comment