BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.2352@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20100322T000000Z DTEND:20100322T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Japanese percussionist&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.mimaroglumusic sales.com/artists/seijiro+murayama.html">Seijiro Murayama</a>&nbsp\;first made his name in the mid-80s as the explosive engine driving the brutally ugly noise rock of Absolut Null Punkt with guitarist KK Null. (The group r eunited in 2004 and has since made several more albums.) He also played on the first proper release by Keiji Haino's blistering\, mystical Fushitsus ha\, a live double LP from 1989. So when I heard some of his recent work\, I was floored. Since moving to Paris in 1999\, Murayama has been immersed in improvised music\, much of it quiet\, serene\, and nonpercussive. On t he 2007 release&nbsp\;Hatali Atsalei&nbsp\;(Intransitive)&mdash\;a wonderf ully strange collaboration with French musique concrete artist Lionel Marc hetti\, according to its liner notes based on "Greek ritual music"&mdash\; he sings or makes weird vocal sounds more often than he does anything with a drum. On last year's&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.ftarri.com/ftarrilabel/9 98/index.html">Space and Place</a>&nbsp\;(Ftarri)\, a duo with Tokyo multi -instrumentalist Soundworm (credited here with sound engineering and "sugg estions")\, he creates unidentifiable friction sounds as well as gusting d rones dominated by electronically enhanced cymbals and other metal objects \, both bowed and struck. His most recent album with American sound artist Michael Northam\, the 2009 disc&nbsp\;Moriendo Renascor(Xing-Wu)\, is so heavily processed and edited it's hard to tell what Murayama played or how &mdash\;Northam began with what he calls "composted recordings" made in Li sbon\, Portugal\, and Astoria\, Oregon\, fusing Murayama's muted metallic clatter with digitally transmogrified environmental sounds to create hypno tizing atmospheres that twinkle\, glow\, hover\, and throb. See also&nbsp\ ;<a href="http://admin.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Event?oid=1530982">Tuesda y</a>.&nbsp\;&mdash\;Peter Margasak\n\nFrom the Chicago Reader:&nbsp\;http ://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Event?oid=1531410 DTSTAMP:20241009T162543Z SUMMARY:Seijiro Murayama\, Jason Roebke\, and Brian Labycz URL:/en/events/2010/03/22/seijiro-murayama-jason-roebke-and-brian-labycz/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR