"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Critic Consensus
Based on 5 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Ryoji Ikeda is rated as a watchable live performer, with decent shows overall. Ryoji Ikeda concert reviews describe live shows and performances as rhythmic, cinematic, masterful, and intricate.
ON TOUR
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu, Estonia (November 2); silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany (November 27)
Ryoji Ikeda (Ikeda Ryoji, born 1966 in Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese composer and visual artist. Japan's leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics.
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The Guardian (UK)
October 1, 2018
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The Japanese composer and visual artist’s polyrhythmic techno confronts our digital dystopia
The only time Ryoji Ikeda took to the stage at the packed-out Barbican Main Hall was for his curtain call – the leading Japanese composer has always pushed his art, rather than the artist, into the spotlight. He had just presented two performances which, on paper, appeared as stark contrasts to each other: a
Ryoji Ikeda in London Noise art, musique concrete, glitch—this kind of music is often hard to find a route into. My inroad into Ryoji Ikeda was his 2005 dataplex LP. I was blown away by how intricate and grounded his productions were, from his masterful management of texture and sound design to his deft synth
It's best understood as an aestheticised experience of fear or as sci-fi author China Mieville defined it in conversation with the DJ and curator Juha van 't Zelfde "dark awe" a grim negative to the sublime.
He was on full-tilt right from the beginning—I don't imagine many of the audience knew what hit them when the monochrome shining of 20 LCD screens and a huge cinematic backdrop accompanied by binary glitch mechanisms began.
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