Seijiro Murayama, Yuma Takeshita

■Seijiro Murayama

Born in 1957 in Nagasaki, Seijiro Murayama developed an early interest in sound after listening to radio programmes presented by the ethnomusicologist Fumio Koizumi. He began his professional career in 1982, taking part in the US tour of Keiji Haino.

Since 2000 he has been based in Paris, working primarily across Europe. He has sustained long-term collaborations with the sound artist Eric La Casa, the composer, alto saxophonist and pipe organist Jean-Luc Guionnet, and the Berlin-based trumpeter Axel Dörner.

Critical of so-called “free improvisation”, he founded the Brussels-based improvisation collective Skew, within which he developed the concept of “simultaneous solos”, presented in various countries. He performs using percussion, drum kit and voice.

He is co-author of Gohō to Gusha (2010). A graduate of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Department of Hindi and Urdu), he also holds the Diplôme d’Aptitude Pratique au Français (DAPF), Level 1 (the highest level).

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■Yuma Takeshita

Yuma Takeshita was Born in Osaka, he began performing mainly at live music venues in the Kansai region around 2001.
After moving to Tokyo in 2012, he started creating custom musical instruments.

He has designed and built his own electric bass, the "Electrobass," which has multiple sensor modules attached.
Additionally, he has developed multi-axis rotating speakers, and asynchronous instruments incorporating mechatronics, all of which he performs with solo and sessions.
In recent years, he has been showcasing his creations in exhibitions, creating installations, and providing technical support to artists both in Japan and abroad.

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