[biography]

Ikeda began his activity as a sound artist and DJ in 1990. 

In 1994 he began to work as the composer for the multimedia art 
group Dumb Type. Since 1995 he has been intensely active in sound 
art through concerts (including a recent performance at Centre 
Pompidou in Paris), sound installations and recordings; the 
albums +/- (1996), 0? (1998) and the recent Matrix(2001) have been 
hailed by critics as the most radical and innovative examples of 
contemporary electronic music. With Carsten Nicolai he works on the 
recording project Cyclo, for which a new CD has recently been released. 

In 2000 Ikeda created the sound installation Matrix for the Millennium 
Dome in London and Matrix (for and anechoic room) for the exhibition 
Sound Art- Sound as Media at the ICC in Tokyo. He has participated in 
the important group show of sound art Sonic Boom, curated by David Toop 
at the Hayward Gallery in London. The versatile range of his research 
is demonstrated by the recent collaboration with the Japanese architect 
Toyo Ito, presented at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 
the exhibition Vision and Reality (2000).

(taken from the press release of 'Perspectives'exhibition in Milano May 2001)


[discography]

1995    Ryoji Ikeda    1000 fragments    cci recordings/CCD23001
1996    Ryoji Ikeda     +/-    Touch/TO:30
1998    Ryoji Ikeda    time and space    Staalplaat/STmCD009
1998    Ryoji Ikeda    0'C    Touch/TO:38
1998    Ryoji Ikeda    Mort Aux Veches / VPRO Live Recording    Staalplaat
1999    Ryoji Ikeda    99    Noton
2000    Ryoji Ikeda    matrix    Touch/TO:44

1993    Various Artists    silence - a quiet manifestation of the future (CD+Book) Spiral/36CD-N020 (produced by ryoji ikeda)
1995    Various Artists    Document 02:sine    Dorobo/010
1995    Various Artists    Atomic Weight    Iridium/Ir193.2
1995    Various Artists    statics    cci recordings/CCD25002 (produced by ryoji ikeda)
1995    Various Artists    mesmervariations    Ash International/Ash 1.8cd2
1996    Various Artists    A Fault in the Nothing    Ash International/Ash 2.6cd2
1996    Various Artists    Alan Lamb Remix / Night Passage: demixed Dorobo/011
1996    Various Artists    Touch Sampler 2    Touch/T_ZERO_2
1997    Various Artists    Tulpas    Selektion
1998    Various Artists    Chill Out    Sabotage
1998    Various Artists    meme    meme000
1998    Various Artists    Modulation    Caipirinha
1998    Various Artists    Stilluppstaype Remix / Reduce by reduce 12" & CD Fire Inc./SOME
1999    Various Artists    END ID    Digital Narcis
1999    Various Artists    Modulation & Transformation 4    Mille Plateaux
1999    Various Artists    Microscopic    Caipirinha

1994    Dumb Type    S/N    Spiral/30CD-N022
1998    Dumb Type    OR    Foil Records
2000    Dumb Type memorandum cci recordings cci 001

2001    cyclo. 1st album  raster-noton (cyclo. is a collaborative project with Carsten Nicolai)
2001    Various Artists Clicks+Cuts 2  Mille Plateaux



[concert]

1997    
May 17    @ Stadtgarden, Koln

1998    
April 14    @ VPRO, Amsterdam (live recording)
June 27    @ Le Garage, Paris
September 20    @ Garage, London
October 16, 17    @ Spiral, Tokyo
November 28    @ Volksbuene, Berlin
November 29    @ Fylkingen, Stockholm
        
1999    
January 14    @ ICC, Tokyo
April 2    @ Experimental Intermedia, New York
April 3    @ Columbia University, New York
April 10    @ ZKM, Karlsruhe
April 25    @ Watari-um, Tokyo (with Carsten Nicolai)
May 1    @ Phonotantik, Vienna
June 17    @ Sonar, Barcelona
July 8    @ Contemporary Gallery, Leipzig (with Carsten Nicolai)
October 21    @ Museum of Modern Art, Paris
December 10    @ ODPD, Chicago

2000    
January 18    @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
January 20    @ Contact Theatre, Manchester
January 22    @ Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
January 27    @ Arnolfini, Bristol
January 29    @ Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton
May 9 @ Impakt Festival, Utrecht
June 17    @ Paradiso, Amsterdam (with Carsten Nicolai)
June 22    @ The Anchorage, New York
July 17    @ Paradiso, Amsterdam
September 6  @ La Batie Festival, Geneva
September 7  @ Ars Electronica, Linz
September 15, 16  @ Elektra 2000, Montreal
October 20    @ Brussels 2000, Brussels

2001
February 1 @ Pompidou Centre, Paris
March 12 @ Volksbuene, Berlin (as cyclo.)
March 31 @ Centro Petralata, Rome (as cyclo.)
April 28 @ Link, Bologna (as cyclo.)
June 8 @ IASPIS Venice Biennale, Venice (as cyclo.)
September 4 @ Brucknerhaus, Ars Electronica, Linz
September 6 @ Posthof, Ars Electronica, Linz (as cyclo.)
September 14 @ Bessie Hall, Sapporo
September 16 @ Kushiro Art Museum, Kushiro
September 28 @ Kunsthalle Schrin, Frankfurt (as cyclo.)
September 29 @ Kunstlerhaus Mousontrum, Frankfurt
October 7 @ Göteborg Art Sound, Göteborg (as cyclo.)
October 14 @ Ebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo



TBC...


[installation]

1998    
April 18 - May 10  
zero degrees installation  @ CBK Villa Alckmaer, Rotterdam
Just About Now exhibition

2000    
January 1 - December 31
matrix  @ The Millennium Dome, London
The Millennium Dome

January 28 - May 21
matrix (for an anechoic room)  @ ICC, Tokyo
Sound Art as Media exhibition

April 26 - June 18 
A   @ Hayward Gallery, London
Sonic Boom exhibition

2001
May 4 - June 20
spectra  @ MicaMoca, Milano
Perspectives exhibition

June 27
hermes  @Maison de Hermes Japon, Tokyo
Grand Opening

October 2 - 7
matrix (for container)
@ Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Impakt Festival 2001

2002
February 7 - April 28
spectra II
@ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Frequencies [Hz] exhibition


TBC...


[dumb type]  (Ryoji Ikeda is also a composer of Japanese artist-collective group 'dumb type') 

1995    
 performance S/N    : Ljubljana(Slovenia), Munster(Germany ), Salvador(Brasil), Sao Paulo(Brasil)

1996    
 performance S/N    : Tokyo(Japan), Wellington(New Zealand), Sevilla(Spain), Brussels(Belgium)

1997    
 performance OR    : Maubeuge(France), Paris(France), Linz(Austria) [Ars Electronica], Tokyo(Japan), Paris(France)
 concert OR : Palermo(Italy), Kobe(Japan), Tokyo(Japan)
 Installation OR : @ICC, Tokyo(Japan) as a Permanent Collection

1998    
 performance OR : Amsterdam(The Netherlands), Lisbon(Portugal), Zurich(Swizerland),Turnhout(Belgium), London(UK),
 Hamburg(Germany), Stockholm(Sweden)

1999    
 performance OR : Kochi(Japan), Kyoto(Japan), Krems(Austria), Seattle(USA), Portland(USA), Minneapolis(USA), Chicago(USA)
 performance memorandum : Ajaccio(France), Maubeuge(France), Paris(France), Berlin(Germany), Madrid(Spain)

2000    
 Installation OR : @Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon(France) - as a Permanent Collection
 performance memorandum : Charleroi(Belgium), Lyon(France),Toulouse(France), Sevilla(Spain), Amsterdam(The Netherlands),
 Kochi(Japan), Tokyo(Japan)

2001
 Installation Cascade : Berlin new piece production ...

TBC....


[others]        

1999-2001        
composition for japanese architect Toyo Ito's exhibition

23 October 1999 for 3 months  @ Suermondt Ludwig Museum Aachen, Germany
16 November - 31 December 1999  @ TN Probe Tokyo, Japan
18 February 2000 for 3 months  @ De Singel Antwerpen, Belgium
23 September 2000  for 3 months@ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
10 August 2001- Auckland, New Zealand
6 September - 2 December 2001 @ Besilica, Vicenza
23 September 2001 - Wellington, New Zealand

2001 
Ocotober - November : composition for Netherland Dance Theater II


[prize]

2001 Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Digital Music category