CxBxT is a new collaborative project consisting of Japanese singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Tujiko Noriko, musician and composer Adrian Corker, and percussionist George Barton. Stepping into the studio for the first time together one beautiful summers day in London 2024, the emerging six tracks that form new album .After, were recorded in a day and a half. Primarily recorded live with multiple mics and chains of effects by Ben Lockett, the improvised music came out of instruments which were already in the studio including bass, guitar, shakuhachi, piano, melodica, percussion, various synths and sounds played off acetates. Barton played tuned percussion, drums and musical saw with Corker adding fields recordings made with sound recordist Chris Watson and Tujiko adding vocals. Sounding like a modernised Bauhaus, taking in loose dub influences, Japanese folk music and krautwork, .After is a thrilling journey into experimental post-punk and electronic music. Corker first met Tujiko when he co-founded the Constructive label in 2020, and released the OST for the British film Surge starring Ben Whishaw, written by Tujiko and eminent British sound designer Paul Davies. It was our first time making music together and there was no plan, adds Tujiko. Most of the tracks were built from the first take but we recorded the tracks layer by layer, listening carefully to the sounds that were already there. It wasnt like doing an improvised live session where everyone just plays together. It was something more quieter and nuanced. For Aurora Sagashi, Corker built the track around harmonium, strings and Tujikos lo-fi vocals with Barton adding percussion. It was the first time in my music-making life that a project came together like this. I think the way we made this record reflects Adrians simplicity – the kind that comes from his ability to grasp the essence probably intuitively. Im kind of intuitive too, and….its just chaos, continues Tujiko. Ben was also a truly huge part of the album. He created such a beautiful and open sonic space – without Ben, we would have just been tangled up in cables, far from being focused or intuitive. I remember him using the word magic several times during the recording. I hope theres a little bit of that magic in this record to share. Tujiko Noriko is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and filmmaker based in Paris. Since the early 2000s, she has released several albums of experimental pop, singing bittersweet melodies in Japanese and English over glitchy, downtempo electronics and electro-acoustic arrangements. Early releases such as Shojo Toshi (2001) and From Tokyo to Naiagara (2003) were critically acclaimed, attracting attention from IDM and indie pop audiences alike. She has collaborated with several experimental electronic musicians, including Peter Pita Rehberg as DACM, French artist Saâdane Afif and Lawrence English and John Chantler on U (2008). Having worked on numerous experimental short films throughout her career, Tujiko released her first full-length instrumental soundtrack Kuro in 2019. The expansive ambient work Crépuscule I & II was released in 2023 which Pitchfork described as intimate yet cinematic. Adrian Corker is a musician and composer who has written extensively to picture, alongside releasing music both as a solo artist and in collaboration. His first score, Antonia Birds cult classic Face (1998) starred Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone and most recently, he scored Rowan Joffes drama series Tin Star (Sky Atlantic/Amazon). Other notable film scores include Three Degrees Colder (2006), The Have-Nots (2016) and Florian Hoffmeisters Tár (2023). In summer 2023, he completed an installation for Modes 2023 Tokyo Festival in collaboration with Japanese film composer Takuma Watanabe. The same year, he curated a project titled Utopia or Oblivion based on the work of Buckminster Fuller, featuring work from Ale Hop, Robert Lippok and Silvia Kastel. He has also curated events at the ICA London, Unsound Festival and the Gagosian Gallery. Recent curation includes Chris Watsons Namib in the Octagon at Queen Mary in London. He has released numerous albums as a solo artist including his 2022 album Since it Turned Out Something Else, which was described by Electronic Sound Magazine as Intensely and startlingly brilliant. His final season score for Tin Star came second in Mojo Magazines Soundtrack of the Year, pipped only by Warren Ellis. He has collaborated with musicians including Chris Watson, Jack Wyllie and Richard Skelton. Corker also runs the groundbreaking labels SN Variations and Constructive which together have released music by John Cage, Lucy Railton, Kit Downes, Oliver Leith, Takuma Watanabe, conductor/composer Jack Sheen and most recently, Tujiko Noriko and sound designer Paul Davies score to Aneil Karias debut feature Surge starring Ben Whishaw. Percussionist George Barton has been described by BBC Radio 3s Tom Service as a boundless musical explorer, and regularly works in the fields of chamber music, solo playing, film sessions, free improvisation, and orchestral work, as well as arranging and conducting. With pianist Siwan Rhys, Barton forms GBSR Duo, whose repertoire ranges from Stockhausen and Ustvolskaya to Aphex Twin and Harold Budd, and whose collaborators range from the LA Philharmonic to experimental artists Angharad Davies and CHAINES. In 2025 GBSR Duo won the Royal Philharmonic Societys Young Artist Award. He is also a member of both the Colin Currie Group and Riot Ensemble.