RYOJI IKEDA

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–ongoing), test pattern (2008–ongoing), spectra (2001–ongoing), cyclo, a collaborative project with Carsten Nicolai, superposition (2012–ongoing), supersymmetry (2014–ongoing), and micro | macro (2015–ongoing).