Ryoji Ikeda

Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda was born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan and now lives and works in Paris, France and Kyoto, Japan. He focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.

Alongside of pure musical activity, Ikeda has been working on long-term projects through live performances, installations, books and CDs. In early 2018, accompanying the release of ‘music for percussion’ [cd+booklet], he established his online source under the name codex | edition.

In 2017 - 2018, he presented solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR) and Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam, NL) among others. He launched ‘spectra’ as a permanent installation at Mona (Tasmania, AU) and presented a drone symphony, ‘A [for 100 cars]’, commissioned by Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles. In 2019, he will present works and performances at institutions such as Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens, GR), Madatac X (Madrid, ES), and a major solo show at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, TWN) among others. Succeeding his acoustic stage piece ‘music for percussion’, he will premiere ‘100 cymbals’, commissioned by LA Philharmonic.

He is the award winner of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2014.