Buitengewoon, niet mis te verstaan effectieve combinatie tussen noise en abstract beeld van Ryoji Ikeda. Grappig was dat ik eerst dacht de gedaantes onderdeel waren van het werk, maar het zijn bezoekers die zich in de ruimte bevinden en waar de beelden op de vloer geprojecteerd worden. De audio versterkt het ruimtelijke effect van de geprojecteerde beelden waardoor de bezoekers in het werk opgenomen worden.
World premiere of a new work by renowned Japanese audio-visual artist Ryoji Ikeda. The work, entitled Test Pattern is a major installation featuring a sound and light component that is projected by a series of light projectors onto a floor space of approximately 10 metres wide by 40 metres long.
The work converts data (text, sounds, photos and movies) into barcode and binary patterns of 0s and 1s, with the end result being an immersive experience of flickering black and white imagery and sound that pushes the threshold of human perception.
An earlier version of Test Pattern was presented in New York in 2011 at The Park Avenue Armory. The New York Times described it as a ‘sublime spectacle’ and New York Magazine described Ikeda’s work as ‘an extreme and elaborate visual and sonic environment not to be missed.’
Test Pattern is free entry and open to the public from Friday 7 June until Sunday 7 July. No tickets are required.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in Japan, Ikeda lives and works in Paris, where he develops live performances and installations. Ikeda has performed and exhibited worldwide, to widespread critical acclaim, to audiences at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Barbican Centre, London, Grec Festival, Barcelona and the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Ikeda uses scale, light, shade, volume, shadow, electronic sounds, and rhythm to flood the senses. In choreographing vast amounts of digital information, the artist conjures up a transformative environment in which visitors confront data on a scale that defies comprehension, experiencing the infinite.
Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Paris. Ikeda’s music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of “raw” states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing. The conclusion of his album +/- features just such a tone; of it, Ikeda says “a high frequency sound is used that the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance” (from the CD booklet). Rhythmically, Ikeda’s music is highly imaginative, exploiting beat patterns and, at times, using a variety of discrete tones and noise to create the semblance of a drum machine. His work also encroaches on the world of ambient music; many tracks on his albums are concerned with slowly evolving soundscapes, with little or no sense of pulse.
Ryoji Ikeda was born in Gifu, Japan in 1966.
In addition to working as a solo artist, he has also collaborated with, among others, Carsten Nicolai (under the name “Cyclo.”) and the art collective Dumb Type. His work matrix won theGolden Nica Award in 2001.
Bron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoji_Ikeda
Superposition gaat onder meer over de manier waarop we de realiteit van de natuur op atomisch niveau kunnen begrijpen. Ikeda staat bekend om zijn intrigerende werken van wereldniveau, die op adembenemende wijze alle aspecten van elektronische muziek en datavisualisatie in videoprojecties verkennen.
Bron: http://www.muziekgebouw.nl/