Ryu Hankil

Ryu Hankil is a computer musician, improviser, and writer based in Seoul.

Ryu Hankil has long explored the possibility of generating another kind of music through non-musical objects. His questions and practice regarding how an object's inherent vibrations can constitute a musical context led him to realize that the speculative power of sonic thinking creates fiction in diverse ways.

To put this understanding into practice, he actively utilizes the feedback between physical modeling synthesis and sonic thinking writing.

He has now shifted his primary focus from non-musical objects to the speculative power of sonic thinking, exploring how sonic thinking can generate different music, function as a new cognitive system, and fundamentally and comprehensively reconfigure today's reality.

Lo Wie

Lo Wie is Beckett's Typist (2011) and a member of A.Typist (2011~ ), and currently organizing a music composition concert series, namsan (2014~ ).
http://lo-wie.blogspot.com

Yan Jun

yan jun, a musician and poet based in beijing.
he works on experimental music and improvised music. he uses noise, field recording, body and concept as materials.
sometimes he goes to audience’s home for playing a plastic bag.
“i wish i was a piece of field recording.”
yanjun.org

For this event, Yuko will read this poem by her mum, Kazuko Shiraishi, called ‘ bus stop'. This is the English translation of it:

BUS STOP

On top of the shifting sand     a
Shadow is seeping in like     a dot
It is     a bus stop
No sign telling     from where     to where
There is no one
To     answer     all the questions
Like purpose     and what then     or
Why
Even what is called meaning
Has worn out     and.    in the old     dictionary
Now gritty     and     sticking out a stone tongue     just laughs

(Even the little room inside the brain
The wind     has flown off     somewhere
So . . .)
Saying so
I go out     get on my bike     but     even though I get on
I don't have a destination     but     to go back
Inside, too
That place     also     is a destination that doesn't exist

Maybe     the bus stop.    has come to the door
And might be building a fire
Maybe     the bus stop     with a huge     ancient eye
Like an iguana     might be watching.    passengers
There might be     an angel lying face down like a puppy
Pretending to be asleep

There is Sister Maria who became
A green birthmark simply because she was afraid of committing adultery
Also     sweat-soaked deserters
In dirty combat boots who can't even become devils.    or.    lazy angels
The bus stop     may be     watching     them
Smudging.   in the color of sand
Around the eyes     with the shifting sand
Something that     is     a dot
On the shifting sand!
Certainly existing     that
Phantom existence!

_______
from ‘Let Those Who Appear’, Kazuko Shiraishi
New Directions Publishing
Translated by Samuel Grolmes & Yumiko Tsumura

Seijiro Murayama

Percussionist Seijiro Murayama was born in 1957 in Nagasaki, Japan. He started performing improvised music in 1972, under some influence of Vinko Globokar and musicologist Fumio Koizumi. After graduated from Tokyo University in 1982 in Urdu studies he toured the USA with Keiji Haino as part of the seminal psychedelic band Fushitsusha. Returning to Japan after a period in NYC he continued playing drums and electronics in K.K. Null‘s noise/rock band A.N.P. (Absolut Null Punkt), while further exploring free improvisation. A relocation to France in 1999 led to collaborations that extended into dance, theatre and performance as well as ongoing partnerships with musicians Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Cordier, Michel Doneda, Mattin, Lionel Marchetti, among many others. After over a decade in Europe he relocated back to Japan in 2013.

His artistic principal is to work with the idea of the plural or inter-disciplinary relationships between music and other disciplines of art: dance, video, paintings, photos, literature etc. In this way, he collaborates with musicians, composers, and sound artists. Improvisation is always the major concern for him, even if it is not his artistic goal. His approach is based on the attention to space and place, to the energy of the audience and to the quality and perception of silence on various levels.

http://www.seijiromurayama.com/