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Ryoji Ikeda
January 29, 2006

Japan's leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda, focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself.

Music, time and space shaped by mathematical methods, sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties to reveal its relationship with human perception.

Ikeda has developed an aesthetic of 'ultra minimalism. And he is going to be back in London after an absence of 6 years. Since 1995, Ryoji Ikeda has been intensely active in sound art through concerts, installations, and recordings. He has been hailed by critics as one of the most radical and innovative contemporary composers. His albums +/- [1996], 0°C [1998] and matrix [2000] pioneered a minimal world of electronic music, employing sine waves, electronic "glitch" sounds, and white noise. These minute yet dynamic sound constructions have established him as one of the key figures of contemporary music.

C4I will be performed at the AV Festival in The Sage, Gateshead on 3rd March. Also, C⁴I and formula will be at London's Barbican on 20th March.

With production by Forma. Forma is one of Europe's leading agencies for contemporary, cross-artform projects. Working with artists, venues and festivals worldwide, they produce, publish and tour programmes of hybrid forms of music, visual art, film, new media, dance, theatre and live art [also responsible for the recent Her Noise catalogue].

Either event promises to be a unique experience.

Two very different photographers - Catherine Chalmers and Steve McCurry

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