PUBLIC PERFORMANCES:

November 2nd
7.30pm, £5
Duo - Seijiro Murayama (Drums) + Seymour Wright (Alto Saxophone)

November 3rd

7.30pm, £5
Seijiro Murayama + Workshop Participants

Trio - Seijiro Murayama (percussion) / Ross Lambert (Guitar) / Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (Zither)

Percussionist Seijiro Murayama was born in 1957 in Nagasaki, Japan. He started performing improvised music in 1972, under some influence of Vinko Globokar and musicologist Fumio Koizumi. After graduated from Tokyo University in 1982 in Urdu studies he toured the USA with Keiji Haino as part of the seminal psychedelic band Fushitsusha. Returning to Japan after a period in NYC he continued playing drums and electronics in K.K. Null‘s noise/rock band A.N.P. (Absolut Null Punkt), while further exploring free improvisation. A relocation to France in 1999 led to collaborations that extended into dance, theatre and performance as well as ongoing partnerships with musicians Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Cordier, Michel Doneda, Mattin, Lionel Marchetti, among many others. After over a decade in Europe he relocated back to Japan in 2013. 

His artistic principal is to work with the idea of the plural or inter-disciplinary relationships between music and other disciplines of art: dance, video, paintings, photos, literature etc. In this way, he collaborates with musicians, composers, and sound artists. Improvisation is always the major concern for him, even if it is not his artistic goal. His approach is based on the attention to space and place, to the energy of the audience and to the quality and perception of silence on various levels.

http://www.seijiromurayama.com/

2-DAY WORKSHOP: NON-IDIOMATIC IMPROVISATION

November 2rd + 3rd (10am–2pm both days)
Cafe OTO Project Space
£20 for both days, £10 Each day
(It is recommended to attend both days)
Advanced booking is required for this workshop: email antrgoreiz@gmail.com

Seijiro Murayama proposes a workshop on “non-idiomatic” improvisation: improvisation that does not repeat or rely on existing patterns (styles, structures, social organisation).

In his words;
“What I hope is that my workshop contributes, in a way, to help each participant to find, clarify or develop his or her artistic directions – or simply what each one wants to do artistically in life. I have suggestions or proposals but I do not teach. Each one should develop one’s work alone, in collaboration with others.”

Some notions that will be explored:

• How to improvise the working process of improvisation.
• How to make and enjoy conflicts in improvisation without hating or killing one another.
• How to “dig” the inner self, to listen to one’s silence or solitude to find out one’s necessity of improvising.
• How to listen to others. Diverse ways of listening; dynamic and static. What one can try to listen to? Place, space.
• How to listen to “oneself”. How to listen to others?
a. Physical
b. social
c. existential or ontological
• What is the necessity of change? Improvising is to make changes? Why?

The workshop will be defined in collaboration with the participants. Those from all backgrounds and abilities are invited to join. If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please send a brief description of what you do and why you are interested to participate to antrgoreiz@gmail.com. This info will assist Seijiro in developing the workshop plan.

*Participants are encouraged to bring their own instruments or other means of making sound, and any necessary amplification.