Ryoji Ikeda

superposition

Archive 2012
Music
Centre Pompidou
novembernov 14 - may – may 14

© © Ryoji Ikeda ©

 

Ryoji Ikeda
superposition
Commisioned by Festival d’Automne à Paris for the musical part
 
Ryoji Ikeda, concept, music and Artistic Direction
Stéphane Garin, Amélie Grould, performers
Tomonaga Tokuyama, Norimichi Hirakawa, Yoshito Onishi, Graphic realisation, Programmation 
Daisuke Sekine, Architectural conception 
Simon MacColl, Technical Direction
Tomonaga Tokuyama, Technical Coordination

Production Ryoji Ikeda Studio ; Quaternaire ; FormaCoproduction Concertgebouw (Bruges) ; Festival de Marseille ; EPPGH La Villette (Paris) ; Kyoto Experiment ; ZKM-Centre d’art et de technologie des médias (Karlsruhe) ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Corealisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Mécénat Musical Société Générale and Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa

 

Ryoji Ikeda first emerged on the music scene in the mid 1990s with an eclectic approach featuring the art of the DJ and producing complex montages of surgical accuracy gradually stripped of all outside references. More recent works have moved towards abstract formalism, challenging perception, seeking extremes – infra-sound and ultra-sound. superposition, referring to quantum physics, is performance in diverse forms with a score/matrix for an original ritual.

See also

Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris
decemberdec 6

microcosms

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A world-renowned sound and visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda combines performance art, video installations and electronic music. Since the 2000s, he has also been composing for acoustic instruments. This first concert presents two works, each made up of several pieces, and gives us the opportunity to discover a universe of his in which electricity has been cast aside.
Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris
decemberdec 7

Ryoji Ikeda
macrocosms

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This second concert dedicated to the acoustic work of the digital virtuoso Ryoji Ikeda, invites audiences to three unique listening experiences. Ten percussionists coordinate with each other to choreographic-like effect, as though they were the different parts of a same instrument. The concert also features a choir piece, a first for the composer, and a new work for the Philharmonie de Paris organ.