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IKEDA, RYOJI - Dataplex

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Raster-Noton / CCI Recordings R-N 068 Release Year: 2005 Note: the transformation of data (mathematic, genetic) into digital sounds, with amazing result.... 20 tracks of highly suspenseful "Datamatics", incl. the great "DATA.VORTEX" and "DATA.MATRIX" ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Nach langer Zeit was neues vom Microwave-Meister, der sich hier mit der Umwandlung von Daten (genetisch-molekulare, mathematische) in akustisches Material beschäftigt ! Hochkonzeptuelle Ästhetik in mitreissende Digital-Akustik umgesetzt.... “Much anticipated new release from leading Japanese electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda. Since the mid 1990s, Ikeda has pioneered a radical and highly influential minimalist approach in the worlds of electronic and contemporary music. His seventh solo album and the first musical composition in the datamatics series - a new body of work across various media that uses data as both its material and its theme - Dataplex presents a significant and stunning progression in Ikeda's career. Aside from demonstrating Ikeda's unrivaled standards of technical precision, minute sound construction and engineering, the album also introduces an extraordinary and fascinating overall structure. The first eight tracks of Dataplex consist mostly of high-frequency raw data. Their structures are located clearly outside the cosmos of music. Instead, these linear tracks seem to be source code transformed into an audible medium; a constant stream of data, they represent the basic material of the album. The following pieces become longer, increasingly complex and distinctly inter-related, before the rhythmic structure itself metamorphoses. Rhythms and tones are refracted progressively, until, with track 18, data.vortex, Ikeda opens up an apparently infinite acoustic space with an expansive piece that contrasts dramatically with all that precedes it. And following this caesura the album almost ends in the way it started, sinking back into the data flow. Through meticulous attention to detail and the most minimal of gestures, Ikeda succeeds in expanding and enhancing his sound design to reveal a new universe to the listener. Dataplex opens up avenues of pure musical abstraction whilst simultaneously embracing complex, unique and elegant individual composition." [press release] “....With Dataplex, his first CD release in over four years, Ikeda inaugurates a project called Datamatics, in which Ikeda draws on raw data from DNA code to mathematical formulae to explore the aethetics of data in the digital age. On Dataplex, Ikeda uses high frequency raw data as both the overarching theme and the basic building blocks for twenty short, interrelated pieces. This disc is no aesthetic sea change for Ikeda. For those familiar with the ultra-minimal digital aesthetic of the Raster-Noton crew and Ikeda’s previous work, the bursts of static, yawningly deep sub-bass, and jittery, repetitive pitter-patterns of Dataplex will come as no shock. But, that said, who gives a toss when the music sounds this good? Post-digital glitch has rarely been as ineffably catchy (particularly on the second half of the disc) and it’s a note perfect soundtrack for the cold times that lie ahead.” [Rare Frequency] www.raster-noton.de