Roger and the Pacemaker

Seijiro Murayama and Roger Fähndrich improvise with voice, percussion and electric guitar, partially using pre-written lyrics. Our sound research is site-specific. We improvise in all kinds of spaces and situations, recently for example in a fashion show. Therefore, when we play we don’t speak of concerts but of test gigs.
https://roger-f.com/pacemaker.html
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Seijiro Murayama (JP, 1957) has been improvising with voice and percussion since 1980. He has played with Keiji Haino and KK Null, and in the early 80s, John Zorn helped him buy a saxophone in NY. Murayama currently improvises solo, in duo or trio with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Eric La Casa, Klaus Filip, Hugo Abraham, Cyprien Busolini, among others. More information at:
Website Seijiro

Roger Fähndrich (CH, 1982) writes and performs paradoxical protest songs as Roger F. & The Structure, that aim to foster critical reflection. He is also the founder of the Centre of Negativity, a research space for conversations about difficult emotions in the arts. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Bern and an MA in Autonomous Design from KASK School of Arts Ghent.
Website Roger

Delighted Danse Project

Jean-Marc Foussat is a sound recordist, experimental electroacoustic musician, improviser, ex-guitarist and now AKS synthesiser player, born in Oran, Algeria, in 1955. He started out playing guitar in the mid-1970s in a number of experimental prog-rock bands, then quickly became interested in analogue synthesizers. A sound recordist who gradually moved away from his first groups and the guitar, he worked a lot on magnetic tape on his own, practising collage and rather concrete music in the studio. At the beginning of the 80s, his meeting with Evan Parker, Paul Lovens and their friends was decisive. He decided that from then on he would only play improvised music. He first got involved in 1992, playing with J-F. Pauvros and M. Sato in Marteau Rouge, then, from 2010 onwards, in an even freer and more independent way…

Around 20, Stéphane Guillaumon wanted to become an actress and embarked on a training programme influenced by the research of Jerzy Grotowski.
Steeped in this theatrical teaching, in which the body is already stripped bare and in the process of becoming, it was through her encounter with Gyohei Zaïstu and Maki Watanabe that she entered Butô dance, in which she discovered a possible space for her reflections and questioning around the body and its transformations, as well as more generally her relationship to the environment, to others and to sound.
She then joined “Collectif Butô”, where she perfected her skills and began dancing all over Europe.
Since then she has worked regularly for the Transit company on site performances.
She co-organises a Butô dance festival in Lyon.

They met in Lyon in 2022 through a mutual friend, Jean Tinnirello, and have been performing and dancing together ever since…

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