Ryuichi sakamoto ryoji ikeda biography

Ryoji Ikeda ((池田 亮司 Ikeda Ryōji, born 1966 in Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese composer and visual artist.

Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.

Alongside of pure musical activity, Ikeda has been working on long-term projects through live performances, installations, books and CD’s such as 'datamatics' (2006-), 'test pattern' (2008-), 'spectra' (2001-), ‘cyclo’ a collaborative project with Carsten Nicolai, and ‘superposition’ (2012-).

He performs and exhibits worldwide such as Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Singapore art Museum, Ars Electronica Center Linz, Elektra Festival Montreal, Grec and Sonar Festivals Barcelona, Aichi Triennale Nagoya, Palazzo Grassi Venice, Park Avenue Armory New York, Barbican Center London, Museo de Arte Bogota, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, DHC/Art Montreal, Festival d’Automne Paris, Sharjah Biennale, Carriageworks Sydney, Auckland Triennale, MONA Museum Hobart – Tasmania, Ruhrtriennale, Telefonica Foundation Madrid, MoMA New York, Kyoto Experiment Festival among others.

In 2014, he is touring his new performance ‘superposition’ in the US (Metropolitan Museum New York, Walker art Center Minneapolis, UMS Ann Arbor and Center for the Arts of Performance Los Angeles) and in Europe. He will present solo exhibitions in YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Japan, Le lieu Unique Nantes (France), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAM), and Haus für Elektronische Kunst, Basel.

He is the award winner of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2014

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    Ryoji Ikeda
    +/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]
    April 2 (Thu) – June 21, 2009(Sun)

    4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku,
    Tokyo 135-0022 Japan

    www.mot-art-museum.jp

    Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda creates at the extremes of sound, light and mathematics to produce complex transformative works of singular beauty. In Paris last year he projected vast blinding white light up into the city’s night sky from sixty-four floodlights situated in front of Tour Montparnasse, France’s tallest skyscraper. spectra [paris] was a version of spectra [amsterdam], Ikeda’s commission for DREAM AMSTERDAM which lit the city’s Vondel Park, Van Gogh Museum, Wastergasfabrick cultural space and Java Island.

    In April Ikeda presents Ryoji Ikeda +/- [ the infinite between 0 and 1], his first major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). The exhibition includes new commissions, large-scale and audiovisual projections, sound works and sculptural pieces, evolving the synaesthetic effects of Ikeda’s earlier works, fusing sound and image in intensely physical experiences.

    Ryoji Ikeda +/- [ the infinite between 0 and 1] presents some works developed from datamatics, Ikeda’s series of “experiments that explore the vast universe of data in the infinity between 0 and 1″, as well as from his dialogue with Harvard mathematician Benedict Gross. It also develops a prime number / a natural number, Ikeda’s large-scale photographic work for Le Laboratoire, which explored the idea that perhaps nothing in the universe is random.

    Other works include data.matrix [nº1-10], a multi screen installation featuring video sequences from datamatics [ver.2.0], Ikeda’s audiovisual concert; and matrix [5ch version], a pure sound installation formed by a grid of speakers through which visitors walk.

    Similar to Ikeda’s spectra [paris], which also featured a grid, visitors’ movements interfere and disrupt the carefully composed soundscapes.

    In addition, MOT presents da

    Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Ryuichi Sakamoto
    ART-ENVIRONMENT-LIFE
    November 1, 2013–March 2, 2014 

    Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) 
    7-7 Nakazono-cho, Yamaguchi
    7530075 Japan
    Hours: Wednesday–Monday 10am–7pm
    Admission free

    www.ycam.jp

    The exhibition ART-ENVIRONMENT-LIFE by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto is being held at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Japan. The exhibition introduces three installations, LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible… Ver.2, Forest Symphony, and water state 1, realized in collaboration between Sakamoto, artist Shiro Takatani, and the YCAM InterLab team.

    In LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible… Ver.2, sounds coupled with visual projections onto fog open up the visitor’s perception of the environment. For this installation, Sakamoto de-/recomposed the opera LIFE (1999), in which he summarized the 20th century as an age of conflict and disruption, and proposed visions of coexistence for the 21st century.

    Suspended from the venue’s ceiling are nine water tanks filled with artificial fog, which serves as a screen for successive projections of visuals used in the opera. The piece further incorporates sounds raining down on the audience in concert with the ever-changing imagery, in complex interactions of repeated synchronization and variance. 

    For Forest Symphony, the YCAM InterLab team developed a sensor device for measuring the bioelectric potential of trees, and collecting the measured data on a server via network. The device is installed on trees at different locations around the globe to measure their respective bioelectric data, which Sakamoto used to creates sounds that envelop the venue along with visuals made under the direction of Shiro Takatani, visualising the changing biopotential and information of the respective environments the device is installed in. These elements are spatially integrated into a “forest-like environment” in the form of a sound installation that contin

    Chasm (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)

    2004 studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Chasm (stylized as CHASM) is the 15th studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and was released in 2004. The album is combining experimental and pop, pairing Sakamoto's piano work with ambient and glitch programming. Notably, Sakamoto's former bandmates from Yellow Magic Orchestra, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, contribute on several songs under their own production name, Sketch Show.

    The song "coro" was featured on the soundtrack to the anime film Appleseed, while "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano" and "only love can conquer hate" were featured in the film Babel. The original version of "Ngo", featured on the single for "Undercooled", was used in a New Balance advertisement. "Seven Samurai - ending theme" is taken from Sakamoto's score for the PlayStation 2 game Seven Samurai 20XX.

    The US version of the album replaces "the land song" with two pieces, "song" and "word". A single vinyl edition was also released, containing ten of the original fourteen songs.

    Track listing

    All tracks are written by Ryuichi Sakamoto and are instrumental, except where noted

    TitleLyricsMusic
    1."undercooled"MC Sniper 4:32
    2."coro"  4:05
    3."War & Peace" 5:31
    4."CHASM"  3:30
    5."World Citizen - I won't be disappointed" (looped piano)David Sylvian6:05
    6."only love can conquer hate"  9:47
    7."Ngo" (bitmix) 5:10
    8."break with"  4:35
    9."+pantonal"  3:58
    10."the land song - music for Artelligent City" (one winter day mix)  5:08
    11."20 msec."  5:32
    12."laménto"  3:43
    13."World Citizen" (re-cycled)SylvianSylvian4:57
    14."Seven Samurai - ending theme" (music for PS2 game "Seven Samurai 20XX")  5:41
    Total
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