Ryoji Ikeda
Fuses raw data, sine waves and stroboscopic light into overwhelming audiovisual installations at the edge of human perception.
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Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese visual and sound artist who currently lives and works in Paris, France. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing. Rhythmically, Ikeda's music is highly imaginative, exploiting beat patterns and, at times, using a variety of discrete tones and noise to create the semblance of a drum machine. His work also encroaches on the world of ambient music and lowercase; many tracks on his albums are concerned with slowly evolving soundscapes, with little or no sense of pulse.
He composes with pure frequency and streaming data until sound becomes architecture, making the sublime out of the exact stuff that usually numbs us.
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Fuses raw data, sine waves and stroboscopic light into overwhelming audiovisual installations at the edge of human perception.
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