kellerstiege #2

doors : 19:00
concert start : 21:00
entry : pay-what-you-can (5EUR Richtwert)

live :

mamoru okuno (JAP)

• various objects, loop-pedals, microphones

seijiro murayama & tim blechmann (JAP, DE)

• snaredrum, laptop

info :

mamoru okuno :
Mamoru Okuno was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. Moved to Liverpool,
during his age 4-5. The experience grounded the roots of his
expression; the desire for essential communication, which turned him
to search his own ?word? that goes beyond mere language, first in
music and then in sound art. Okuno has started playing keyboard
instruments since age 7. In 1996, his interest toward the jazz music
made him move to New York City. He studied with Ron Carter (ensemble),
Bruce Barth, and Arturo O’Farrell (piano). Graduated from B.F.A.
program at The City College in 2000, received two scholarships. It was
during the last year of studying music in US and being exposed to
music from all time and place that Okuno began to identify his own
“word” by improvising without any reference to Jazz idiom. He started
to find the Japanese aesthetics as his inspiration.

Returned to Japan in 2001, Okuno gradually increase the use of
field-recordings, electronic devices, and non-musical elements that is
primitive and contemporary at the same time. The works opens up the
timeless void and challenge people to ´listen´ not to see what is
here/there.

http://homepage3\.nifty.com/afewnotes

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seijiro murayama / tim blechmann :
tim blechmann & seijiro murayama started their collaboration in june
2008
playing together they create a reductionist, yet changing music,
focussing on the mixture of music, environmental sounds, and silence.

Tim’s music is focused on static noise textures, that are digitally
generated and spacial projected in realtime. His pieces are very slow
paced, having a low volume close to the background ambience. For live
performances, his preferred lineup is the duo with another improvising
musicians. After studying physics in Tuebingen and Stuttgart, he
moved to Vienna in 2005, in order to study computer sciences, digital
arts and electroacoustic music (with Wolfgang Musil).

Percussionist, Seijiro Murayama works in France since 1999 after
almost 20 years of improvised music experiences. His artistic
principal is especially to seek for the plural-disciplinity between
music and other disciplines of art: danse, video, paintings, photos,
litterature etc. Also in the same pluri-disciplinary ways, he
collaborates with many musicians, composers, and sound artists. For
him, improvisation is always the major artistic concern. His approach
is based on much attention to the space and the place, to the energy
of the audience and to the quality of silence in various manners, in
short, to ‘hearing’.

http://tim.klingt.org
http://www.kknull.com/anp_e_murayama.html