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S E I J I R O    M U R A Y A M A

Born in 1957, in Nagasaki, Japan, percussionist, drummer,
Seijiro MURAYAMA worked with Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Keiji Haino, KK Null between 1980 and 1998.

seijiro.murayama@free.fr, urojiise@gmail.com
http:// seijiro.murayama.name

Music: improviser-composer.self-taught.

Studies:

- B.A (Urdu: language and literature) at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
(experiences of teaching mathematics and of translating english-japanese+ french-japanese)

Since 1999 he lives and works in France.

Music Activities:

Now he plays in different formats:

-Solo with a snare drum and a cymbal (amplified or acoustic), sometimes with a drum kit.

-Duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet (alto sax), Eric Cordier (amplified hardy gardy), Stéphane Rive (soprano sax), Tim Blechmann (computer), Didier Lasserre (percussion).

-Trio with Thierry Madiot (bass trombone etc) and Pascal Battus (prepared guitar)

-Off-cells: with Taku Unami (guitar), Uta Kawasaki (analog synthesizer), Takahiro Kawaguchi (objects)

He collaborated with some contemporary dance/theater/performance groups as a composer-musician.

His artistic principal is especially to work with the idea of the interdisciplinarity between music and
other disciplines of art: dance, video, paintings, photos, literature etc: approaching ‘a stranger’ to do something constructive with them.

In the same way, he collaborates with musicians, composers, and sound artists: Pascale Criton, Mattin, soundworm, Toshimaru Nakamura, Toshiya Tsunoda, Robin Hayward, Axel Dörner, Klaus Filip,Thomas Tilly, Benjamin Thigpen, Didier Aschour, Damien Grange, Tomaz Grom, Ntoko.

Even if his music has evolved since last years by the practice of writing compositions, improvisation is still his major artistic concern (workshops of improvisation in  Japan, Italy, France, Slovenia).
His approach is based on the attention to space and place, to the energy of the audience, and to the quality of silence in various levels.

His solo is a kind of continuum with microscopic sounds. He uses a snare drum and a cymbal with brushes, sticks etc and air and contact microphones (in order to work on the edge of perceptions).

Otherwise, he develops, by means of texts, his reflections about the framework of the ” concert ” system, the relationship with the audience, etc.

For the dance:

- “Donkey is going” / with L’ Ensemble W (1999)
- “Gallopatoio” / with L’ Ensemble W (2000)
- “Tryptique” / with L’ Ensemble W (2000)
- “JoHaKyu” / with Cie Itra (2001)
- “Volubile” / with Sophie Lamarche (2002)
- “Alla Prima” / with the National Choreography Center of Rennes and the Brittany of Catherine Diverrès (2005)
- “Blowin’ ” / with the National Choreography Center of Rennes and the Brittany of Catherine Diverrès (2007)
- ” La Maison du Sourd ” / with the National Choreography Center of Rennes and the Brittany of Catherine Diverrès (2008)

For the theater:

- “Il Faro” / with Anna Maria Civico

For the performance:

- “Son Image” / with Bernard Dutheil (video, photo) (2001)
- “Manuelism” / with Francois Bidault (paintings), Bernard Dutheil (video) and Nicolas Desmarchelier (sound) (2002-2004)
-”Vénus et le joueur d’orgue” with Jean-Luc Nancy (words), Olivier Gallon (vidéo), Lionel Marchetti (composition) (2006)

Musical intervention:

- “Seuils”, with Pascale Criton at the Cité Internationales Universitaires de Paris (2008)
- “Music of the Architecture”, with Pascale Criton at the convent of La Tourette (2008)
- “Le Corbusier and the colo”, with Pascale Criton at the Villa Savoye (2009)
- For the projection of photos organised by Purpose (photo webmagasine)  (2006 Brussels, 2009 Paris in MyParis festival)

Seijiro Murayama performed:

In France:

Les Instants Chavirés (Montreuil), Aspro Impro (Besançon),
Le Carré Bleu (Poitier), Le GRIMM (Marseille),
La Malterie (Lille), Le Centrale (Bordeaux), L’Usine (Saint Etienne),
La Fabrique (Saint Etienne),
VKS (Toulouse), 102 (Grenoble), Jazz de Mulhouse, Bon Accueil (Rennes), Pannonica (Nantes),
Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Ecole des Beaux Arts du Mans, Les Voûtes (Paris), le MAMC (Strasbourg)…

In other countries:

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, U.S.A, Italy, Slovenia,Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Russia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungry, U.K.

In festivals:

Courant d’Art (Bourg en Bresse, 2001,2002)
SKIF with KK Null (Moscou, 2004)
NAPAI  with Eric Cordier (Parthenay, 2005)
Montpellier Danse with Catherine Diverrès (2005)

La Force de l’Art with Jean-Luc Nancy, Olivier Gallon, Lionel Marchetti (Grand Palais, 2006)

Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis with Catherine Diverrès (2007)
La Noce Bianca with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Mattin (Madrid, 2007)
Altenativa with Jean-Luc Guionnet (Prague, 2007)

Muzzix with Jean-Luc Guionnet (Lilles, 2008)
Compil d’avril 08 with Catherine Diverrès (Brussels, 2008)
ESPORSI  (Terni,Italy,  2008)
RingRing with Jean-Luc Guionnet (Belgrad, 2008)
Interpenetration with Tim Blechmann (Graz, 2008)
Relative (Cross)Hearings with Eric Cordier (Budapest, 2008)
RME: rencontres musiques électroacoustiques  (Chartres, 2008)
NAPAI with Jean-Luc Guionnet,Mattin+ Ray Brassier (Niort, 2008)
Sonorité (Montpellier, 2008)
Metteur en Scène (Rennes, 2008)
Ftarri festival (Kyoto, 2008)
(H)ea rings (Tokyo, 2008)

Ciclo espazos sonoros. (Santiago Compostella, Spain 2009)
Fabbrica Europa with Catherine Diverrès (Florence, 2009)
MyParis festival for Purpose (2009)

[ DISCOGRAPHY ]

In Japan (1984-99)

ANP “Absolut Null Punkt” <CS> [Nux Organization] Japan 1984
ANP / NULL “Dyspareunia” <CS> [Nux Organization] Japan 1984
V.A. “Dead Tech Sampler” <LP> [Dossier] Germany 1985
ANP / NULL “Ultima Hyper Drugs” <LP> [Nux Organization] Japan 1986
ANP “Ultrasonic” <LP> [Nux Organization] Japan 1986
ANP “Ultima Action” <LP> [Nux Organization] Japan 1987
ANP “Killsonic Action” <LP> [Dossier] Germany 1987
Fushithusha “Fushitsusha” <LP> [PSF] Japan 1990
ANP “Ultrasonic Action” <CD> [Nux Organization] Japan 1993
V.A. “Welcome to the Dream World” (Produced by Fred Frith) <LP> [Celluloid] France/USA

In France (1999-)

“Resonnance” <CD+BOOK> [La Fraternelle] France 2002
“Sezyme” <CD+BOOK> [Sezyme] France  2002
Antez + Seiji “s.t.” <CD> [Azimute] France 2003
Lo “s.t.” <CD> [Ektic] France 2004
ANP “Absolut Null Punkt” <CD> [Important] USA 2004
“They Stood Around and Watched” with Michael Northam
<mini CD> [Universalinternational] France 2004

“Suture” with Eric Cordier <CDR>  (no label) France 2004
ANP “Metacompound” <CD> [Important] USA 2006
“Hatari Atsalei” with Lionel Marchetti<CD> [Intransitive Recordings] USA 2008
“Le Bruit du Toit” with Jean-Luc Guionnet <CD> [Xing Wu Records] Malaysia 2008
“Moriendo Renascor” with Michael Northam <CD> [Xing Wu Records] Malaysia 2008
“Noite” with Jean-Luc Guionnet,Ernesto Rodriques,Guilherme Rodrigues
<CD>   [Creative Source Recordings]  Portugal 2009
“Ready’n” with Masafumi Ezaki, Kazushige Kinoshita <CD> [Tenseless music] Japan 2009
“Space and place” with soundworm <CD>   [Improvised Music From Japan]  Japan

coming soon:

“Supercedure” with Eric La Casa <CD>   [Hibari Music]  Japan
“4 pieces with a snare drum” (solo) <CD>   [Petit Label]  France
“Solos” (solo) <CD>   [Zerojardin]  France