About the event

Jean-Luc and Seijiro’s saxophone / percussion duo is an intense proposition; all clutter and waste stripped away to foreground the ebb and flow of acoustic presence, yours as much as theirs.

The collaborative dimension of the project seeks to put the working processes of experimental musicians under a microscope to see what aspects of those processes can be translated out into other contexts; using processes like improvisation, composition, discussion, transcription.

Documentation of the event will be released on Never Come Ashore.

Seijiro Murayama’s percussion work and compositions are wildly serious. Super focused and tactile whether hovering on the inaudible spectrum, or cracking space open. His approach is based on attention to space and place, the energy of the public and especially the quality of silence at different levels; physical, social, ontological. Since 1999 he has lived and worked in France collaborating within other art forms such as dance (Catherine Diverrès), video (Olivier Gallon), painting (Francis Bidault), philosophy (Jean-Luc Nancy, Ray Brassier) and performance (Diego Chamy) etc.. He also works on many purely sonic projects; with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric La Casa, Axel Dörner, Tim Blechmann, Seymour Wright, Toshimaru Nakamura, Toshiya Tsunoda.