Berlin-based duo Seiji Morimoto & Eric Wong work with contact microphones, transducers, and spatialized Bluetooth speakers to activate subtle resonances across objects and surfaces. John-Robin Bold presents a solo set engaging with historical musical forms, digital platforms, and internet-native aesthetics.
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Seiji Morimoto is a Japanese artist based in Berlin since 2003 who works in performance, composition, installation and video.
He focuses on fragile, unstable acoustic phenomena between everyday objects and technological media.
The search for small, differentiated structures and the attempt to discover these random phenomena through and within technological media determine his work.
He has performed and exhibited in many international festivals/projects in Europa and Asia.
He has worked with Takehisa Kosugi, Olivier Di Placido, Olaf Hochherz, Ignaz Schick, Luciano Maggiore, Crys Cole, Felicity Mangan, Alessandra Eramo, Nicolas Wiese, Seijiro Murayama, Hannes Lingens, Derek Shirley, Eric Wong, Johnny Chang, Mat Pogo, Katsura Yamauchi, Makoto Oshiro, Akiko Nakayama, Yan Jun, Mario de Vega, Liz Allbee, Andreas Voccia and many more.
Morimoto runs the label emitter micro with Kris Limbach and Pierce Warnecke and is the curator of the concert series Experimentik at tik in Berlin.
https://www.seijimorimoto.com/
Eric Wong is a Berlin-based musician and sound artist whose work involves auditory perception and the exploration of human relationships with sonic environments. He often incorporates spatialized sound and reduced expressions in his work, focusing on fewer gestures instead of constructing linear or non-linear sonic narratives.
Wong has performed at venues and festivals including Volksbühne (Berlin), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Twenty Alpha (Hong Kong), KM28 (Berlin), Ftarri (Tokyo), 411 Kent Avenue (Brooklyn), ausland (Berlin), Record Shop (Brooklyn), Q-O2 (Brussels), PAS (Berlin), Richten 25 (Berlin), Les 26 Chaises (Paris), OTOOTO (Tokyo), Ting Shuo Hear Say (Tainan), Cute Lab (Brooklyn), Moozak (Vienna), Hošek Contemporary (Berlin), Labor Sonor (Berlin), Les 26 Chaises (Paris), Freespace Noise Fest (Hong Kong), Cynetart (Dresden), Internationales Klangkunstfest (Berlin), Blaues Rauschen (Herne), Soundance Festival (Berlin), Festival Experimentelle Musik (Munich), and Sound Forms (Hong Kong).
He has released music on labels Edition Wandelweiser, Creative Sources, Inexhaustible Editions, Full Body Massage Records, Lona Records, Sello Postal, Vintage Vinyl HK, Party Perfect!, Aloe Records, and Ftarri.
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).
