Name: Roger and the Pacemaker
Start: 2025-04-16T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Ratschkygasse 14 / Eingang Erlgasse, 1120 Wien, Austria

Roger and the Pacemaker
Punk Impro Duo
We are Seijiro Murayama and Roger Fähndrich, born in 1957 and 1982.
One improvised with Keiji Haino at the time the other was improvising walking.
We don't make music, but we play test gigs using voice, drums, electric guitar and lyrics.
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Seijiro Murayamas
künstlerische Aktivitäten bestehen aus Improvisationspraxis, interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit (mit Choreographie, bildender Kunst, Theater, Performance) und Workshops über Improvisation.
Er begann seine Karriere 1982 mit Keiji Haino in Japan und arbeitet seit 1999 in Frankreich.
Als Musiker und Improvisator hat er Mitarbeiter wie Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Eric La Casa, Klaus Filip, Hugo Abraham, Roger Fähndrich. Das Schlagzeug und die Stimme sind seine Hauptinstrumente.
https://urojiise.wixsite.com/seijiromurayama/home

Roger Fähndrich"I’m a multi-disciplinary artist and musician born in 1982 in a Swiss working-class milieu. My work is essayistic and explores the interplay between socio-political realities and subjective self-understandings, or how narratives shape everyday life.As Roger F. & The Structure, I write and perform self-doubting, often paradoxical protest songs, that aim to foster critical reflection. I am also the founder of The Center of Negativity, a relational space for conversations about difficult emotions. This project emerged from my research on the parallels between artistic practices and emotional work.I often collaborate. Most recently, I improvise musically as Roger and the Pacemaker with percussionist and vocalist Seijiro Murayama. I have a multi-disciplinary work relationship on ecology and politics with Christina Stadlbauer and Pierre Rubio, which spawns performances and texts. In partnership with Tanja Schwarz, I lead seminars in art schools that delve into the intricate relationship between art and suffering. I am currently also working on a film with Juliette Joffé and School of Love.My studies include an MA of Visual Arts, Specialisation Autonomous Design, from KASK School of Arts Ghent (BE) and a BA in Fine Arts from Bern University of the Arts (CH)."