Seijiro Murayama
Japanese percussionist, based in Paris.
Japanese percussionist, based in Paris.
Supersedure
Field recordings 1995-2007 by Seijiro Murayama : snare drum + objects and Éric La Casa: microphones + field recordings (1995-2007). Drawing by Tomoya Izumi. 'What makes one a musician, a composer? It happens only when one succeeds in giving life to music, a certain presence. I don't hesitate, even though I am not a writer, a painter etc., to say the same thing about them. For this composition, 'Supersedure', I met Eric. It seems to me that we share an artistic, but maybe also a general attitud…
Moriendo renascor
Between 2003 and 2004 - Michael Northam and Seijiro Murayama met a few times in Switzerland and France. One artifact of their meetings, 'They Stood Around and Watched' a 20 min CDR was published by universinternational. A more comprehensive and extended document of these meetings has finally made its way in the form of 'Moriendo Renascor'. Seeded from composed recordings taken in Lisbon, Portugal and Astoria, Oregon. Northam offered heavily mixed sources during these meetings. Selections were ma…
Dining Room Music
Recorded in the dining room of the Maison Bustros, Beirut, Lebanon on 21 August, 2004.