Hardback, colour and black and white illustrations, 144 pages, W190mm x H260mm
Ryoji Ikeda is Japan’s leading electronic composer and sound artist
who has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists
working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. Since 1995,
Ikeda has been intensely active through concerts, installations, and
recordings, integrating sound, acoustics and sublime imagery.
This is the catalogue of his latest exhibition and first major retrospective: +/– [the infinite between 0 and 1] at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (April – June 2009).
This book documents Ikeda’s visual art practice to date. It reflects
on datamatics, a series of experiments that explore the vast universe
of data in the infinity between 0 and 1, and presents new works
commissioned by the Museum.
These include 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.
Music, time and space are shaped by mathematical methods as Ikeda
explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties to
reveal its relationship with human perception.