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The Japanese composer and visual artist’s polyrhythmic techno confronts our digital dystopia
Ryoji Ikeda has waited patiently for the future to catch up with him. Since his 2005 album Dataplex, the Japanese composer and visual artist has explored the dazzlement and darkness of our digital age in electronic works that are partly generated by algorithms and blur the border between music and maths.
Performing behind a wall of intense 3D light patterns, his hour-long composition Datamatics [ver 2.0] – reworked from a piece that debuted shortly after Dataplex – packs an even heavier punch in 2018 than on its first unveiling in 2008.
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