村山政二朗（Seijiro Murayama）
Born in Nagasaki in 1957. Musician and improviser. Murayama also conducts workshops on improvisation. He performs using his voice, snare drum (or drum set). He began his career in 1982 alongside Keiji Haino. From 2000 to 2023, he worked intensively in France in the field of dance and theater. His current collaborators include Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Chris Pitsiokos, Victor Guaitá, Attila Gyárfás, Carlo Sampaolesi, Silvan Schmid, Roger Fähndrich, and sound artist Eric La Casa.
He contributed to the text *Idioms and Idiots*: http://www.mattin.org/recordings/IDIOMS_AND_IDIOTS.html
Les activités artistiques de Seijiro Murayama se composent de la pratique d'improvisation, de la collaboration interdisciplinaire (avec la chorégraphie, l'art plastique, le théâtre, et la performance), et de l'atelier sur l'improvisation.
Il a commencé sa carrière avec Keiji Haino au Japon en 1982 et puis il travaille en France depuis 1999.
As a musician-improviser, he has collaborators like Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Eric La Casa, Hugo Abraham, and Roger Fähndrich. La batterie et la voix sont ses instruments principaux.
Une cinquantaine d'albums sont créés par lui, parmi lesquels deux en sont dédiés à la composition électroacoustique.
He collaborated notably with Catherine Diverrès, a dancer-choreographer, from 2006 to 2023.
Voici quelques évènements marquants en France dans sa carrière depuis 2000 :
- Participation (à part à une quinzaine de festivals internationaux)
at the festival La Force de l’Art at the Grand Palais with Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher, in 2006
à la Nuit des Musées à Paris au musée Zadkine (2010) et au musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (2018) avec Eric La Casa
à la Nuit des Musées à Paris au musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (2022) avec Frédéric Blondy.
- Résidence de création, “Seuil” with Pascale Criton, composer, at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in 2008
- Laureate 2016 en résidence Villa Kujoyama à Kyoto, avec Didier Aschour
- Several creations with the Monuments Nationaux (Villa Savoye, la Conciergerie, Le Couvent de la Tourette)
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 color, with Pascale Criton at the Villa Savoye (2009)
For the projection of photos organized by purpose (photo web magazine) (2006 Brussels, 2009 Paris in the MyParis festival)
Chaosmose de Felix Guattari—Une lecture collective avec Pascale Criton (2011)
Pour l'exposition de Silvia Hatzl (2017)
For the exhibition "Holobiont Society" by Dominique Koch (2017)
Pour Finissage of the exhibition “Le vent nous portera…” of the Basel-Stadt art credit (Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt)
DNA Poetry Reading for the exhibition of Dominique Koch (2018)
Discography:
In Japan (84-99):
ANP "Absolut Null Punkt" <CS> [Nux Organization] 84
ANP / NULL "Dyspareunia" <CS> [Nux Organization] </CS> 84
V.A. "Dead Tech Sampler" <LP> [Dossier] ger 85
ANP / NULL "Ultima Hyper Drugs" <LP> [Nux Organization] </LP> 86
ANP "Ultrasonic" <LP> [Nux Organization] 86
ANP "Ultima Action" <LP> [Nux Organisation] 87
ANP "Killsonic Action" <LP> [Dossier] ger 87
FUSHITSUSHA "Fushitsusha" <LP> [PSF] 90
ANP "Ultrasonic Action" <CD> [Nux Organization] 93
V.A. "Welcome to the Dream World" (Producteur Fred Frith) <LP> [Celluloid] fr/us
In France (99-):
"Resonnance" <CD+BOOK> [La Fraternelle] fr 2002
"Sezyme" <CD+BOOK> [Sezyme] fr 02
Antez + Seiji "s.t." <CD> [Azimute] fr 03
Lo "s.t." <CD> [Ektic] fr 04
ANP "Absolut Null Punkt" <CD> [Important] us 04
"They Stood Around and Watched" with Michael Northam <mini CD> [Universalinternational] fr 04
"Suture" with Eric Cordier <CDR> (no label) fr 04
ANP "Metacompound" <CD> [Important] us 06
"Hatari Atsalei" with Lionel Marchetti <CD> [Intransitive Recordings] us 08
"Le Bruit du Toit" with Jean-Luc Guionnet <CD> [Xing Wu Records] malaysia 08
"Moriendo Renascor" with Michael Northam <CD> [Xing Wu Records] malaysia 08
"Noite" with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Ernesto Rodrigues, and Guilherme Rodrigues <CD> [Creative Source Recordings] por 09
"Ready'n" with Masafumi Ezaki, Kazushige Kinoshita <CD> [Tenseless music] jap 09
"Supercedure" with Eric La Casa <CD> [Hibari Music] jap 09
"Space and place" with soundworm <CD> [Improvised Music From Japan] jap 09
"4 pieces with a snare drum" (solo) <CD> [Petit Label] fr 09
"Solos" (solo) <CD> [Zerojardin] fr 09
"Idioms and Idiots" with Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Mattin [w.m.o/r 35] sp 09
"Offcells" with Taku Unami, Uta Kawasaki, Takahiro [L’innomable] slovenia 10
"Snared 60 cuts" with Toshiya Tsunoda [Skiti] jap10
"Nepretrganost" with Tomaz Grom [L’innomable] slo 10
"Window Dressing" with Jean-Luc Guionnet [Potlach] fr 11
"Axiom For The Duration" with Stéphane Rives [Potlach] fr 11
""59:01.68 with Kazushige Kinoshita [Ftarri] jap12
"Broken Iteration" (2xCD,Album) [Herbal IInternational] 3
"Paris: Public Spaces" with Éric La Casa [Ftarri] jap 14
"Mishima, Day & Night" with Jean-Luc Guionnet [Ftarri] jap15
"Zashomon" with Miguel A. G. García [Hybrida] ita16
"Rainyseason" with Philip Smartzis [Bogong Sound] australia16
"Karoujite" with Cristián Alvear [Potlach] fr17
"Downdate" electroacoustic composition [Hitorri] jap17
"Idiophonic" with Jean-Luc Guionnet [Ftarri] jap18
"The empire of slip of the tongue (または湿原の帝国)" electroacoustic composition [Hittori] jap19
"Duo Chandos" with Axel Döerner [Sind] germany 19
"Solos" (solo) <CD> [Zerojardin] fr 19 > reissue
"Monotaste" [No Lagos Musique] fr 2019 (voice) cassette
"Mi-tai" [Hitorri] jap 2020
"Live in Madrid" with Cristián Alvear [[LittleSoul and Vintage Vinyl] china 2020
"Al Karpenter: "If we can't dream, they won't sleep!!" with various artists [ever/never] usa 2020
"Blues Mistake, Red Mistake" with Yan Jun, Matija Schellander, and Jean-Luc Guionnet [Meenna] jap 2020
"Dented Time" with Per Oddvar Johansen [Ftarri] jap 2020
"Busolini Murayama Duet" with Cyprien Busolini [Ftarri] jap 2021
"To listen to as far as possible" [Hitorri] solo, jap 2022
"afore" with with Axel Dörner [Ftarri] jap 2024
"Balcony Inside" with Jean-Luc Guionnet [Ftarri] jap 2024
"Red Queen Theory" with Attila Gyárfás [Ftarri] jap 2025
"Uchidome" solo [Hitorri] jap 2025
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Festivals:
SKIF (with KK Null / Moscow, 2004)
NAPAI (with Eric Cordier / Parthenay, 2005)
Montpellier Danse (with Catherine Diverrès / 2005)
La Force de l’Art (with Jean-Luc Nancy, Olivier Gallon, and Lionel Marchetti / Grand Palais, Paris 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)
Mettre 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)
My Paris festival for Purpose (2009)
La nuit des Musées à Paris (2010)
Jazz ao Centro – Coimbra International Jazz Festival
Météo (Mulhouse, 2010), Bruitisme (Poitier, 2010)
Jazz en Franche Compté (2010)
Ftarri Doubt music Festival (Tokyo, 2010)
New New festival (Brno, 2010)
RingRing festival (Belgrade 2011)
i-and-e festival (Dublin 2011)
Flâneries musicales de Reims (2011)
Suoni per Il Popolo (Montreal Canada 2014)
Festival Send and Receive (Winnipeg Canada, 2015)
Sound Disobedience (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015)
Lost Property (New Haven Uk,2016)
Electric Camps (Venice It, 2016)
ARS MUSICA (Brussels Belg,2016)
Ear we are (Bienne Ch,2017)
Artacts (St Johann in Tirol At, 2017)
Zarata Madrid, Zarata Bilbao (sp 2018)
Sonic Protest with Thomas Brinkmann (Paris, 2018)
La Nuit des Musées au Musée de la Chasse et la Nature (Paris 2018)
Saturnaria (Milano,2018)
Akouphène (Genève, 2018)
Le Bruit de la Musique (Creuse, fr 2023)
La Semaine du Son (Bruxelles, 2025)
