Ryōji Ikeda

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Ryōji Ikeda at transmediale 2010

Ryōji Ikeda ( Japanese 池 田亮 司 , Ikeda Ryōji ; * 1966 in Gifu Prefecture , Japan) is a Japanese sound and video artist and one of the most innovative musicians in contemporary electronic dance music .

Life

Ikeda started working as a DJ in 1990 and was later a. a. Member of the multimedia project Dumb Type (from 1994). Together with Carsten Nicolai , on whose label Raster-Noton he has released several albums, he forms the Cyclo project . There were also collaborations with Ryūichi Sakamoto . There are also various collaborations with cultural institutes such as the Center Georges Pompidou or the Millennium Dome. He lives and works in Paris. The CD matrix won the 2001 Prix ​​Ars Electronica in the “Digital Musics” category.

Ikeda researches and presents details of the mathematical and physical qualities of sound in the field of electronic music , in particular devoting himself to firmly defined frequencies, even at the limit of the audible, and their reception as music by the human ear. Concerts, live performances, sound sculptures and CDs were published. His approach is mostly based on rhythmic loops, in which the classic percussion instruments (hh, bd, sn) are substituted by repetitive sequences of short tones / noises, but he also publishes pieces that consist exclusively of sound surfaces without a distinctive rhythm. Its sounds are apparently mainly generated from digital sources.

Discography (selection)

  • 1995: 1000 Fragments (CCI Recordings)
  • 1997: +/- (touch)
  • 1998: Time and Space ( Staalplaat )
  • 1998: 0 ° C (touch)
  • 2001: matrix (touch)
  • 2003: op. (Touch)
  • 2005: Dataplex ( Raster-Noton , CCI Recordings)
  • 2008: Test Pattern (Raster-Noton, CCI Recordings)
  • 2010: Dataphonics (Dis Voir)
  • 2013: Supercodex (Raster-Noton, CCI Recordings)

Visual work

Ikeda uses two walls of the exhibition hall with dimensions of around 10 × 18 m for its large-scale projection at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , where it can be seen from December 7, 2019 to March 29, 2020 under the title "data-verse". Changing image sequences of the body and the brain are projected, including circuits, city maps, climate zones, air traffic paths, sun eruptions, galaxies, etc.

Musically, the projections are underlined in a minimalist way with barely audible sine tones through to muffled bass sounds.

  • Data.Tron, transmediale 10.

  • Data.Tron (detail), transmediale 10.

  • Data-verse (large projection).

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Wolfsburg Art Museum (ed.): Ryoji Ikeda data-verse. December 7, 2019 to March 29, 2020 . Leaflet.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ryōji Ikeda at e-artnow.org, accessed on July 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Biography at ryojiikeda.com, accessed June 27, 2014
  3. ↑ Ryoji Ikeda: Von den Socken bei de-bug.de, accessed on June 27, 2014
  4. ↑ ryoji ikeda | exhibitions. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
  5. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original of June 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.macm.org
  6. ↑ GLOBAL: Ryoji Ikeda | 06/21/2015 to 08/09/2015 | ZKM. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ryoji Ikeda | π, e, ø | Almine Rech Gallery. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ikeda, Ryōji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 池 田亮 司 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifu Prefecture , Japan