Seijiro Murayama was born in 1957, in Nagasaki, Japan and as a percussionist and drummer, has worked with Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Keiji Haino and KK Null between 1980 and 1998, and is now resident in Paris. Especially interested to work with the idea of the interdisciplinarity between music and other disciplines of art (dance, video, paintings, photos, literature etc,), his approach is based on the attention to space and place, to the energy of the audience, and to the quality of silence in various levels. His solo playing is often described as a continuum of microscopic sounds. He uses snare drum and cymbal with brushes, sticks, air and occasionally contact microphones in order to work at the edges of perception. In this rare UK visit he is joined by two of London’s finest improvisers
