Ryoji Ikeda



Ikeda born in Gifu (Japan) in 1966. He has been active in the sound world since 1990 starting off working with underground club spaces and moving his way into involvement with producing, TV and video soundtracks and installations. Since 1995, he has been sound operator for the performance group Dumb Type and has toured with them extensively through Japan, New Zealand, Brazil and Europe. In 1996, Ikeda collaborated with Christophe Charles [Mille Plateaux] for a sound installation in the Tokyo subway. His work appears of several compilations from Dorobo and Ash International. He has additionally compiled ''Silence'' (with Derek Jarman, John Lilly, Holger Czukay, etc) for Spiral / Wacoal Art Center, and ''Statics'' (with Jim O'Rourke, Alan Lamb, Christophe Charles, Paul Schutze, David Toop, etc) for his own CCI recordings label. Recently he has done remixes of Alan Lamb, RLW, Dumb Type, and Stilluppsteypa. He worked on a sound piece with Simon Fisher Turner's voice for the web and the installation of Belgian artist Stefaan Decostere. In May of 1997, he did his first solo performance in Cologne, Germany alongside Scanner, David Toop, David Moss, and Bernd Friedman. He also worked with the japanese architect Toyo Ito for an installation at the Lousiana Museum in Copenhagen. In 2001 joined sound designer Carsten Nicolai in ''Cyclo'' project.

1995 1000 Fragments - ICC
1996 +/- - Touch
1998 0¬C - Touch
1998 Time and Space - Staalplaat
1998 Mort aux Vaches - Staalplaat
2000 Matrix - Touch
2001 Cyclo (with Carsten Nicolai) - Raster-Noton
2002 Formula - ICC
2002 Op. - Touch
2005 Dataplex - Raster-Noton
2008 Test Pattern - Raster-Noton