Monday, 14 February 2011

Ryoji Ikeda...

...the Japanese composer and sound artist, is fascinated with the niceties of ultrasonics, frequencies and the indispensable elements of sound in relation with human perception and the mathematical dianoia applied to music, time and space. 'One minute' moves from industrial to ambient with puritanical sounds that speed up and briefly deviate into something more explosive and violent, a rush, but is tamed soon enough to return to the pulsing, monotony evoking notions of morse code, binary, stream of data, a "digital pulse" and in turn (for me) unearths connotations of work, the drone of the rat race, and those explosions are that of the brief irregularities, out of routine moments where things are not so consistent.

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