Ryoji Ikeda

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

General

Ikeda began in 1990 to work as a DJ and was later among others Member of the multimedia project Dumb Type (from 1994). Together with Carsten Nicolai, on the Raster-Noton label he has released several albums, he is the project cyclo. Furthermore, there were collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Addition, there are a variety of collaborations with cultural institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou or the Millennium Dome. He lives and works in Paris. The CD matrix won the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica in the category " Digital Musics".

Ikeda researches and presents details of the mathematical and physical qualities of sound in the field of electronic music, but he is especially dedicated to pre-defined frequencies also in the border area of the audible and its reception as music by the human ear. Been published concerts, live performances, sound sculptures and CDs. His approach is mostly based on rhythmic loops, in which the classical percussion instruments (hh, bd, sn ) by repetitive episodes short tones / sounds are substituted, but he also published pieces, which consist exclusively of sound surfaces without pronounced rhythm. His sounds are seemingly generated mainly from digital sources.

Discography (selection)

  • Test Pattern ( Raster-Noton, 2008)
  • Dataplex ( Raster-Noton, 2005)
  • Op (Touch, 2003)
  • Matrix (Touch, 2001)
  • 0 ° C ( Touch, 1998)
  • Time and Space ( Staalplaat, 1998)
  • / - ( Touch, 1997)
  • 1000 fragments ( cci recordings, 1995)

Visual works

Data.tron (detail), transmediale 10

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