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Saturday 2 August 2025
#31 : Eric Wong & Seiji Morimoto / John-Robin Bold
Pink, Stockport , Greater Manchester GB
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Seiji Morimoto + Eric Wong

Food provided in the ticket price but arrive early to avoid disappointment! £10 Adv / £12.5 Otd

The duo explore sonic possibilities within limited gestures to produce sound, with the attempt to reveal different layers of sounds within the parameters, and emphasize the resonance between objects. ​ Morimoto uses small electronics that resonate on the table, and Wong reinforces the resonance of Bluetooth speakers. Morimoto amplifies the sound and creates feedback with a mixer, whereas Wong spreads out multiple Bluetooth speakers among the audience that playback bass and white noise, while keeping two for himself to resonate with nearby objects on the table. Morimoto uses piezo microphones to pick up the vibrations of his electronics as well as Wong's vibrating speakers on the table.​

Eric Wong is a Berlin-based musician and sound artist, studied psychology at the University of Minnesota, and audio production and engineering at the Institute of Production and Recording.

Wong is both a guitarist and electronic musician. As a guitarist, he performs as a soloist and in groups including free improvising trio BISTRE and guitar ensemble Panomorph. As an electronic musician, he focuses on utilizing smartphones and Bluetooth speakers for his compositions and performances. He composed ten pieces for multiple smartphones in 2021 and 2022, with the series titled “multiple portables”. He has also been performing with multiple pocket sized Bluetooth speakers in the past few years to create spatialized sonic experiences for the audience that the PA system cannot provide.

Wong has performed in festivals including Freespace Noise Fest (Hong Kong), Cynetart (Dresden), JOLT (Hong Kong), Internationales Klangkunstfest (Berlin), Blaues Rauschen (Herne), Soundance Festival (Berlin), Festival Experimentelle Musik (Munich), Sound Forms (Hong Kong), and has released music on labels Edition Wandelweiser, Creative Sources, Inexhaustible Editions, Full Body Massage Records, Sello Postal, Vintage Vinyl HK, Party Perfect!, and Aloe Records.

Born in Tokyo 1971, studied musicology at the Kunitachi College of Music, graduating in 1996. During this period he began to play the electronic pieces by John Cage and his own sound performances. Since then he has been creating sound performances, installations and videos.
In 2003 Morimoto moved to Berlin, has performed and exhibited in Europa and Asia.
He runs the label emitter micro with Kris Limbach and Pierce Warnecke. Since 2017 he is the curator of the concert series Experimentik at tik in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Morimoto worked in different formats with various artists such as Takehisa Kosugi, Keitetsu Murai, Olivier Di Placido, Francesco Cavaliere, Rinus van Alebeek, Tomoko Sauvage, Olaf Hochherz, Ignaz Schick, Luciano Maggiore, Crys Cole, Felicity Mangan, Kakawaka, Alessandra Eramo, Nicolas Wiese, Seijiro Murayama, Hannes Lingens, Derek Shirley, Eric Wong, Johnny Chang, Mat Pogo, Olaf Rupp, Clare Cooper, Katsura Yamauchi, Piotr Tkacz, Jamie Drouin, Makoto Oshiro, Akiko Nakayama, Yan Jun, Mario de Vega, Liz Allbee, Marie Takahashi, Andreas Voccia, Sayori Izawa, Heather Frasch, Grgur Savic, Mizuki Ishikawa, Kyoco Taniyama and many more.

John-Robin Bold is an artist and composer who works with electronic music, internet and installation art. His multifaceted practice explores the aesthetic situation of a world defined by online platforms and digital consumption. By rethinking musical and cultural paradigms from Renaissance to late romanticism, and avant-garde modernism to subcultural pop industries, Bold’s work offers an unconventional perspective on contemporary culture.

\ \ He regularly performs throughout Europe at venues like Golden Pudel, ZKM, The White Hotel, FUSE Art Space and Volksbühne to name but a few. After the release of his untitled debut album on the legendary Mille Plateaux label in 2020, followed his sophomore album ‘Demonstrations‘ on Quanta Records. More recently, the collaborative works ‘Symposium Musicum‘ and ‘we may be on the way‘ (Bold/Cowling) came out on Slovakian imprint mappa and Glenn Dancer Records. Among those radio stations airing his music are BBC Radio 3, NTS, Deutschlandfunk, Radio 1 Czech, LYL Radio and Cashmere Radio. \ \ Understanding today’s culture within a platform-embedded context, has led to a number of works for which Bold coined the term ‘website-specific‘. Here, online platforms’ functions, visual and textual aspects become an inherent part of the artwork itself. This approach was first presented at his 2022 solo show entitled ‘SoundCloud Gazing: website-specific music‘ at /rosa, Berlin (Zentrum für Netzkunst, Panke Gallery). His current website-specific project ‘Audio Library of a Viewable World‘, a series of interactive YouTube videos, was recently exhibited at Millennium Film Workshop in New York City. Other digital and installation works, often in collaboration with Andy Cowling and Daniel Vier, were shown in international group exhibitions at The New Art Fest Lisbon, SYNNIKA Frankfurt, Galerie Obrist Essen, Ars Electronica Linz, The Wrong Biennale, Spazju Kreattiv Malta and Foundry Dubai. In 2024, his video works toured internationally as part of the ‘Open Secret’ group screenings.\ \ Born and raised near Hamburg (Germany), John-Robin Bold now lives in Manchester (UK).