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See You At Regis Debray
February 2008
FR CDx2 Syntax 689492075125

  1. Staring Writing Cooking Sleeping Listening
  2. Tearing Polaroiding Masturbating Dancing Pissing

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Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern

Test Pattern
February 2008
DE CD Raster-Noton R-N 93

  1. Test Pattern #0001 - [MP3]
  2. Test Pattern #0010
  3. Test Pattern #0011
  4. Test Pattern #0100 - [MP3]
  5. Test Pattern #0101
  6. Test Pattern #0110
  7. Test Pattern #0111
  8. Test Pattern #1000
  9. Test Pattern #1001
  10. Test Pattern #1010
  11. Test Pattern #1011
  12. Test Pattern #1100
  13. Test Pattern #1101 - [MP3]
  14. Test Pattern #1110
  15. Test Pattern #1111
  16. Test Pattern #0000

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Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex

Dataplex
December 2005
DE CD Raster-Noton R-N 68

  1. data.index
  2. data.simplex
  3. data.duplex
  4. data.triplex
  5. data.multiplex
  6. data.complex
  7. data.hypercomplex
  8. data.googolplex
  9. data.microhelix - [MP3]
  10. data.superhelix
  11. data.minimax
  12. data.syntax
  13. data.telex
  14. data.flex
  15. data.reflex - [MP3]
  16. data.convex
  17. data.vertex
  18. data.vortex
  19. data.matrix - [MP3]
  20. data.adaplex

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Ryoji Ikeda - Opus

op.
December 2002
UK CD Touch TO : 60

    op. 1 [for 9 strings] (2000-01)

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV

  5. op. 2 [for string quartet] (2001-02)

  6. op. 3 [for string quartet] (2002)

    7. op. 1 [for 9 strings] (2000-01)

  7. I
  8. II
  9. III
  10. IV

press release from touch:

    op.1 was originally commissioned by "experience de vol #3". One notable aspect fans of his previous work will highlight upon, is his declaration that “no electronic sounds have been used on this recording”. This is not to say that Ikeda has in any way renounced the world of electronic music that he has done so much to shape over the past seven years. op. 1 is a brave and deliberate step that also lends a new dimension to his previous output, with the acoustic space created by his string arrangements being subject to the same forensic attention to detail as before.

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Cyclo - Archiv 1.1

Cyclo
April 2001
DE 2xLP/CD Raster-Noton R-N 041

  1. C1
  2. C2 - [MP3]
  3. C3 - [MP3]
  4. C4
  5. C5 - [MP3]
  6. C6
  7. C7
  8. C8
  9. C9

press release from Raster-Noton:

    on the occasion of new forms series of concerts in 1999 ryoji ikeda and carsten nicolai did their first joint performance at galerie für zeitgenössische kunst in leipzig/ germany - the project cyclo. was founded.
    between 1999 and 2001 files were exchanged, material was collected and tracks were made. cyclo sets up a priority on digital quality of the tracks. selective use of automated processes like the overlapping of loops and their falsification through wrong calculation or incorrect condensation algorithms, errors and the translation into rudimentary rhythmic constellations is the result of their work. the errors itself becomes topic of this first release from cyclo.

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Matrix
December 2000
UK 2xCD Touch TO : 44

    matrix [for rooms] (99-00)
  1. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
  2. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  3. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - [MP3]
  4. 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
  5. 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  6. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
  7. 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
  8. 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  9. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  10. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

notes

    matrix [for rooms] forms an invisible pattern which fills the listening space. the listener's movement transforms the phenomenon into his±her intrapersonal music.
    .matrix (99-00)
  1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
  2. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
  3. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
  4. 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 - [MP3]
  5. 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
  6. 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
  7. 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
  8. 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - [MP3]
  9. 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
  10. 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

press release from touch:

    Matrix is the final element in a trilogy of CDs that began with +/- in 1996. When it was first released, +/- came like a bolt out of the white. Nobody had used digital recording processes to produce sound as pure, as intense and as exhilarating. Since releasing 0°C in 1998, Ryoji Ikeda has progressively refined and enhanced the distinctive sonic fields and microsounds that have strongly influenced post-digital composition, resisting the transitory cycle suggested by the term 'Glitches', creating compositions that probe deeply: our relationships to time and space, sound and light. Much of the time since 1998 has been spent touring with the Japanese performance group, Dumb Type, whose landmark show [OR] is shortly to be followed by a new presentation for which Ikeda has composed the sound, Memorandum.

    In January 2000, Ryoji Ikeda toured the UK with Zoviet*France. A closer connection to the 20 new recordings that make up Matrix can be found on the recent Touch 00 sampler, Matrix for an Anechoic Room, which came out in Spring 2000. That's the only forewarning of what awaits you on putting the first CD into your player. The layers of sound that make up Matrix [for rooms] transform both the listener and the listening environment into another dimension. The dimensions change as you move about the space, or simply turn your head around the sound like surveying the angles of a building. Matrix has much in common with the work of La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Alvin Lucier..., but poised closer to the imminent and auto-interactive virtual world we are promised, Ryoji Ikeda's new work pushes the parameters of the drone to ask timely questions concerning our relationship to own perception, and to our existing living spaces. [TO : 44]

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20' to 2000
May 1999
DE CD Raster-Noton 20to20003

    01-99 variations for modulated 440hz sinewaves (1999) - [MP3]

notes:

    recorded at cci studios, tokyo jan-feb 99

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Mort Aux Vaches
1999
NL LP/CD Staalplaat

  1. headphonics
  2. +/-

notes:

    released from Staalplaat in a limited edition CD of 1000 copies

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0°C
1998
UK CD Touch TO : 38

    C (1997-8)

  1. C1:: check - [MP3]
  2. C2:: cacoepy
  3. C3:: circuit
  4. C4:: contexture
  5. C5:: cuts
  6. C6:: counterpoint - [MP3]
  7. C7:: continuum
  8. C8:: can(n)on - [MP3]
  9. C9:: cadenza
  10. C0:: coda (for T.F.) - [MP3]

    11. 0°

  11. 0° :: zero degrees [1]
  12. 0° :: zero degrees [2]
  13. 0° :: zero degrees [3]

press release from touch:

    Ryoji Ikeda's 2nd CD for Touch, his 3rd solo CD, follows the classic +/- and a year's world tour with performance artists Dumb Type.

    OºC is an exploration at the edge of one's perception - an extention of +/- and the next step.

    C adds a velocity axis and a density axis to factors, Oº amalgamated numbers, structures, frequencies and sounds.

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Time and Space
1999
NL 2xCD3 Staalplaat

    Time (1996-98)
  1. 1'11"- [MP3]
  2. 2'22"
  3. 3'33"- [MP3]
  4. 4'44"
  5. 5'55"
    Space (1997-98)
  1. Space - [MP3]

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Ryoji Ikeda - + / -

+/-
1996
UK CD Touch TO : 30

    Headphonics (1995-96)

  1. Headphonics 0/0 - [MP3]
  2. Headphonics 0/1 - [MP3]
  3. Headphonics 1/1

    4. +/- (1996)

  4. +
  5. +. - [MP3]
  6. +..
  7. -
  8. -.
  9. -.. - [MP3]
  10. +/- - [MP3]

press release from touch:

    +/- has a particular sonority whose quality is determined by one's listening point in relation to the loudspeakers. Furthermore, the listener can experience a particular difference between speaker playback and headphone listening. The sound signals can be thought of in the same way as spotlights. Lastly, a high frequency sound is used that the listener only becomes aware of upon its disappearance.

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1000 Fragments
1995
JP CD CCI Recordings CCD23001

    Channel X (1985-95)

  1. Testone
  2. Trans-Missions - [MP3]
  3. This is a Recording - [MP3]
  4. Radiorange
  5. What's Wrong?
  6. Holy Wood
  7. Into the Tranquility
  8. All Has Been Changed
  9. Abstructures

    10. 5 Zones (1994-95)

  10. Zone 1 - [MP3]
  11. Zone 2
  12. Zone 3
  13. Zone 4 - [MP3]
  14. Zone 5

    15. Luxus (1993)

  15. Luxus 1-3 - [MP3]