Sejiro Murayama & Attila Gyárfás, Stefan Voglsinger & Simon Berz, Lai Tsung Yun & Huang Ya Nung

Sejiro Murayama & Attila Gyárfás

Seijiro Murayama is a drummer/percussionist, improviser and composer who has lived in Paris for many years. He continues to carry out tours throughout Europe, and nearly every year he returns to Japan for a time and holds concerts. Murayama has many releases on labels in countries around the world.

Attila Gyárfás is a drummer, improviser and composer from Hungary. Along with his activities in a number of groups including Quelquefois and Identified Flying Object as well as his own Attila Gyárfás Trio, he performs with various musicians from Hungary and other countries.

Murayama and Gyárfás have performed together a number of times in recent years. On November 11, 2024, they gave a duo concert at the gallery Szerkesztőség in Budapest. The single track on this CD documents a 43-minute improvisational performance from that day. Each musician used a simple drum set, which they hit, scraped and gnashed to produce a wide range of sounds. Murayama occasionally used vocalizations, and longish silences were left intermittently. This unusual and impressive performance was unlike anything heard in conventional drum duos.

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Stefan Voglsinger & Simon Berz

The duo Berz/Voglsinger works with minimalist rhythms and multilayered sound textures. Voglsinger filters field recordings, manipulates live recordings using open-source electronics, and sets resonators into vibration. Berz expands the sonic spectrum through geological sound experiments on Icelandic basalt stones and live electronics.

Stefan Voglsinger is a musician and performer based in Vienna. He improvises with sine waves and noise generators sent through resonators. He uses open-source instruments for live sampling and fuses them with filtered field recordings from his travels around the world. Voglsinger works across disciplines, developing performances and audiovisual installations with self-built and hacked electronic circuits. He deconstructs machines and instruments and improvises with various groups in Vienna and abroad.

Simon Berz is a transdisciplinary drummer sound artist, and music educator based in Switzerland and Berlin. Working at the intersection of improvised music, sound art, and performance, and deliberately crossing boundaries between disciplines, his aesthetics are shaped by a sustained engagement with natural materials, particularly stone, and their sonic transformation through electronic manipulation.

Lai Tsung Yun & Huang Ya Nung

Hunag Ya-Nung is a multi-discipline artist specializing in graphic design, illustration, photography and video. She’s also a musician playing “Suona”, a traditional double-reed wind instrument.

In addition to her traditional music training, Ya-Nung often breaks conventional boundaries by exploring fusion, theater, and even the art of noise. She seeks to uncover the possibilities of sound beyond conventional music, integrating body movement with improvisational performance. Her goal is to use traditional instruments to create a new “tradition” within a contemporary context.

Lai Tsung explores the audio mixer’s feedback noise and the environmental sound, and fulfills performances which combine audio and visual. LAI’s video works are based on folk religious rituals and AI art, which chain the mixed noises and oversampling test tones altogether, providing listeners a profound dip into the enigmatic soundscape.

Lai has curated the Lacking Sound Festival since 2013, which is Taiwan’s most renowned sound art performance festival.