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né en 1957 à nagasaki, japon

i work on improvisation in general since 1980, living actually in France. i mainly work with "voice" and "percussion" but i try to applicate the practice of improvisation to other fields of "creative" activities. i am working on it from both sides : non-idiomatic and idiomatic. 1980年からインプロヴィゼーション全般について作業を行っており、現在はフランス在住。音の探求には主に「声」と「打楽器」に訴えるが、インプロヴィゼーションの実践を他の「クリエイティブ」な活動にも利用することを心がけている。その実践にはノンーイディオマティックな側面からだけでなく、イディオマティックな側面からのアプローチも重要と考える。

日本国内での活動:

​東京外国語大学卒業。千野栄一、西江雅弘、井筒俊彦、小泉文夫、九鬼周造、斜め読みによるフランス文学+哲学、

特にブランショからの影響がその後の自分の活動の方向性を決めたと今では思われる(迷路製作者 Greg Bright、James Gang live in concert のLost womanの影響も大)。

82年灰野敬二と米国ツアー、その直後のニューヨーク滞在時、当時の新興勢力、ジョン・ゾーンのラジカルで挑発的な音楽に出会う。その後、Absolute Null Punktを経、間章、竹田賢一、秋田昌美の批評、雑誌トラントニック、演奏家デレク・ベイリー、阿部薫などの影響下、即興演奏の探求に乗り出す。自ら追従していた即興の第一世代の演奏スタイルに対する疑問から一時演奏活動を控えるも、90年代後半、音響派等のムーブメントに目を開かれる。同時期に渡仏の機会を得、環境の変化に応じて思考も変わり、長年の課題であったソロ演奏に集中するようになった。

現在では、主にソロ、デュオ、トリオのフォーマットで演奏。他の分野とのコラボレーションに関しては、ダンスや演劇とのそれもそれなりにはあるが、現在の関心はより言葉やイメージに向かっている、と書き記すが、その動機の基本はジャンルというよりは相手が『どのような人であるか』による。

トランソニック>https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

2012年、東北復興支援機構のキッズアートキャンプ山形、新潟市の水と土の芸術祭..2013年中之条ヴィエンナーレ.2015年「大岡信ことば館」ワークショップ. 2016年ヴィラ九条山レジデンス

(以上、覚え書きとしても sep 2022)

Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Eiichi Chino, Masahiro Nishie, Toshihiko Izutsu, Fumio Koizumi, Shuzo Kuki, then French Literature + Philosophy through Skew Reading, in particular, Blanchot.  Their influence now seems to have determined the direction of my activities since then (yes, don't forget maze maker, Greg Bright and Lost woman at James Gang live in concert etc).

In 1982, he toured the United States with Keiji Haino, and during his stay in New York immediately after that , he encountered the radical, provocating music of John Zorn, a lower manhattan emerging force. After coming back to Japan, through the explosive sound trio Absolute Null Punkt, under the influence of Akira Aida, Kenichi Takeda, Masami Akita, the magazine Transonic, musicians Derek Bailey, Kaoru Abe, etc., he embarked on an exploration of improvisation. Although he temporarily refrained from performing due to doubts about the styles of the first generation of improvisers he had followed, he restarted playing, thanks to the movements such as Onkyo in Japan, named by certain foreign critic in the 90's. In 99, he had the opportunity to live and work in France, that changed  his way of thinking and playing, he began to concentrate in particular on solo improvisation, which had been a long-standing challenge.

Today, he mainly performs in solo, duo and trio formats. As for collaborations with other fields' artists, he notes that even if he has experiences quite a lot of sorts of collaborations with dance and theater, his current interest is more towards words and images, but finally it depends on what kind of person the Other is.

(The above is written as a memorandum sep 2022)

 

 

activities:

electro acoustic and conceptual compositions:

(with Lionel Marchetti, Eric La Casa, Eric Cordier, Michael Northam, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Philip Samartzis) 

improvisation with percussion, voice :

(solo. duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Klaus Filip, Ross Lambert, Stéphane Rives, Antonin Gerbal, Cyprien Busolini..)

transdisciplinary collaborations:

(Jean-Luc Nancy,Ray Brassier,Catherine Diverrès,Dominique Koch,Dominique Collignon Morin..)

 

workshop on (non-idiomatic) improvisation:

http://www.mattin.org/recordings/IDIOMS_AND_IDIOTS.html

                                version in japanese translated by me「語法と愚者」 PDF >                                                                                                                                                               

actually living and working in france.

discography:

 

in japan (84-­99):

 

ANP "Absolut Null Punkt" <CS> [Nux Organization] 84

ANP / NULL "Dyspareunia" <CS> [Nux Organization] 84

V.A. "Dead Tech Sampler" <LP> [Dossier] ger 85

ANP / NULL "Ultima Hyper Drugs" <LP> [Nux Organization] 86

ANP "Ultrasonic" <LP> [Nux Organization] 86

ANP "Ultima Action" <LP> [Nux Organization] 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


 

 

since France (99-):

 

"Resonnance" <CD+BOOK> [La Fraternelle] fr 2002

"Sezyme" <CD+BOOK> [Sezyme] fr 02

Antez + Seiji "s.t." <CD> [Azimute] fr 03                                                                                                                                       photo by Riskó Gáspár 

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 Jean­Luc Guionnet <CD> [Xing Wu Records] malaysia 08

"Moriendo Renascor" with Michael Northam <CD> [Xing Wu Records] malaysia 08

"Noite" with Jean­Luc Guionnet,Ernesto Rodriques,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, Jean­Luc Guionnet, 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 Jean­Luc 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 International]13

"Paris: Public Spaces" with Éric La Casa [Ftarri] jap 14

"Mishima, Day & Night" with Jean-Luc Guionnet  [Ftarri] jap15

"Zashomon" with Miguel a. García  [Hybrida] ita16

"Rainyseason" with Philip Smartzis [Bogong Sound] australia16

"Karoujite" with Cristián Alvear [Potlach] fr17

"Downdate" solo electro acoustic 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)" solo electro acoustic composition [Hittori] jap19

"Duo Chandos" with Axel Dörner [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 [Litle Soul 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, 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] jap 2022

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(En français-In English)

 

Percussionniste, Seijiro Murayama travaille en France depuis 1999, après presque 20 ans de parcours musicaux dans le domaine de la musique improvisée. Son travail est focalisé, en particulier, sur la collaboration entre la musique et d'autres activités artistiques : danse (Catherine Diverrès), vidéo (Olivier Gallon), peintures (François Bidault), photos (Purpose.fr), littérature, philosophie (Jean-Luc Nancy, Ray Brassier), performance (Diego Chamy) etc. Cela ne l'empêche pas d'avoir de nombreux projets purement sonores (avec Jean-Luc Guionnet, Pascale Criton, Eric Cordier, Eric La Casa, Axel Dörner, Tim Blechmann, Seymour Wright, Toshimaru Nakamura, Toshiya Tsunoda). Pour lui, l'improvisation est son souci artistique majeur même si, en public, il n'exerce pas toujours cette pratique. Son approche est basée sur l'attention à l'espace et au lieu, à l'énergie du public et notamment à la qualité du silence à des niveaux différents (physique, social, ontologique). Il est en train d'approfondir des réflexions notamment sur la question de l'idiomatique et le non-idiomatique - "Idioms and Idiots" (avec Jean-Luc Guionnet, Mattin, Ray Brassier 2009). En 2010-2012, il est le curateur du festival " Personal and Collective" à Ljubljana, en Slovénie. Il est lauréat 2016 en résidence à la Villa Kujoyama à Kyoto avec Didier Aschour.

formats:

Solo > with snare drum (amplified or acoustic) and voice, sometimes with a drum kit.

Duo > with Jean-Luc Guionnet (alto sax), Eric Cordier (amplified hardy gardy), Stéphane Rive (soprano sax), Tim Blechmann (computer), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Tomaz Grom (bass), Enrico Malatesta (percussion), Ntoko (free rap), Martin Küchen (sax), Dominique Collignon Morin (theater), Didier Lasserre (percussion) etc.

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

 

collaborators:

Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Eric La Casa, Stéphane Rives, Pascale Criton, Dominique Collignon-Morin, Klaus Filip, Miguel A. García, Luciano Maggiore, Catherine Diverrès, Ray Brassier, Thomas Brinkmann, Benjamin Thigpen, Jasna Velickovic ...

 

collaborate with choreography:

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)

Penthésilées, with Compagnie Catherine Diverrès (2013)

Dentro, with Compagnie Catherine Diverrès (2015)

Blow the Bloody Doors Off, with Compagnie Catherine Diverrès (2016)

Oraison Double pour le ballet du Rhin with Harris Gkekas (2019)

 

 

with theater:

Il Faro, with Anna Maria Civico

La Vieille Vierge Insomniaque with la Colline Compagnie (2018)

 

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)

Lire-sons-corps à partir de "La folie du jour" (Maurice Blanchot) with Dominique Collignon Morin(acteur) and Kathleen Reynolds (danseuse) 2016

La réalité du temps (performance multimédia) with Fred Périé (2018)
 

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 organised by Purpose (photo webmagasine) (2006 Brussels, 2009 Paris in MyParis festival)

Chaosmose de Felix Guattari - Une lecture collective avec Pascale Criton (2011)

Pour l'exposition de Silvia Hatzl (2017)

Pour l'exposition "Holobiont Society" de Dominique Koch (2017)

Pour Finissage of the exhibition “Le vent nous portera…” of the Basel-Stadt art credit (Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt) 

DNA Poetry Reading pour l'exposition de Dominique Koch (2018)

https://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/en/event/finissage-of-the-exhibition-le-vent-nous-portera-of-the-basel-stadt-art-credit/

concerts:

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)…

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

 

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), 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), MyParis festival for Purpose (2009), La nuit des musée 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), Gaffer records festival (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 (fr 2018), La Nuit des Musées au Musée de la Chasse et la Nature (fr 2018), Saturnaria (Milano,2018), Akouphène (Genève, 2018)

(In italiano)

Percussionista Seijiro Murayama ha lavorato in Francia dal 1999, dopo quasi 20 anni di carriera musicale nel campo della musica improvvisata. Il suo lavoro si concentra in particolare, sulla collaborazione tra la musica e le altre arti: la danza (Catherine Diverrès), video (Olivier Gallon), dipinti (Francesco Bidault), foto (Purpose.fr), la letteratura, la filosofia ( Jean-Luc Nancy, Ray brassier), performance (Diego Charny) etc. Ciò non impedisce avere molti progetti puramente sonori (con Jean-Luc Guionnet Pascale Criton, Eric La Casa, Axel Dörner, Toshiya Tsunoda). Per lui l'improvvisazione è la sua maggiore preoccupazione artistica, anche se in pubblico che non sempre si avvalgono di questa pratica. L'approccio è basato sulla attenzione allo spazio e luogo, per potere pubblico e soprattutto la qualità del silenzio a diversi livelli (fisico, sociale, onthologique). E 'approfondire la riflessione in particolare sulla questione della non idiomatica e idiomatica - " idioms and idiots" (con Jean-Luc Guionnet, Mattin, Ray brassier 2009). E 'in residenza nel 2016 a Villa Kujyoyama a Kyoto con Didier Aschour.

 

 


 

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