Artist: Ryoji Ikeda
Genre(s):
Dance
Other
New Age
Discography:
Dataplex
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Op.
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Matrix Cd1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Time And Space
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
0 C
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Japanese minimalist electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda is a starring digit among the modern crop of computer-based musicians exploring the esthetical possibilities opened up by digital production technologies. Released through his possess CCI Recordings, the U.K.-based Touch label, and Staalplaat, among others, Ikeda's music engages the digital recording and production treat now, playing up pernicious glitches and interruptions typically emended out of that action and combine them with deeply complex and disjointed collages of samples, pure tone electronics, and heavily treated digital noise. More recent releases have added elements of the experimental post-techno subgenre-scape to Ikeda's hard disk stew, with bits of jungle, nickname, and minimum techno cropping up between the crackles and whines. Vaguely related -- at least in spirit -- to American minimalist and computing device composer such as LaMonte Young, Steve Reich, Terre Thaemlitz, and John Bischoff, Ikeda's crop is as well in close harmony with German and Austrian post-techno artists such as Farmers Manual and Rehberg/Bauer, with whom he has collaborated live. Mostly unknown in Japan, his crop as a solo artist and in collaboration with Japanese audio/video company Dumb Type has gained him a wider audience in the U.S. and Europe.
