Thursday 31 July 2025, 7.30pm
Another excellent line-up from Infant Tree featuring Tokyo sound artist Seiji Morimoto alongside guitarist and electronic musician Eric Wong, plus a set from the duo of Tara Cunningham & Caius Williams.
The duo of Morimoto and Wong 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 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.
https://www.eric-wong.net/
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/
https://vimeo.com/seijimorimoto
Tara Cunningham is a guitarist and composer whose work focusses on both improvisation, and pushing the textural boundaries of her instrument. Ongoing projects include; duo with bassist Caius Williams and acid-jazz group Red Snapper. She has also recently recorded part of Jack Cooper’s Modern Nature for their fourth studio album, as well as currently working with drummer Seb Rochford on his latest project for 6 guitars.
Caius Williams is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside an ongoing solo project, and often works with improvisation.
Some projects include ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent performances or collaborations with
Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O’Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Sachiko M, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, amongst others.
Caius has been running the GRAIN series at Avalon Cafe in Bermondsey for the last 3 years, which is focussed on programming new and adventurous music and nurturing a growing community with cross-scene and cross-generational collaboration.
https://caiuswilliams.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/caiuswilliams_
https://www.youtube.com/@GrainResidency
florence uniacke is a poet living in london. recent publications include suiving, ma bibliotheque, 2020. Vocable, crater press, 2023. Speeches of mary, veer 2 , 2024 and in frame/drum song coming with veer 2 later this year.
