Melbourne International Arts Festival presents Ryoji Ikeda in
C4I and formula [ver.2.3]
<b>C4I</b>
Monday 10 October at 10pm & Tuesday 11 October at 8pm
Duration: 45 minutes no interval
<b>formula [ver.2.3]</b>
Monday 10 October at 8pm & Tuesday 11 October at 10pm
Duration: 45min no interval
Japanese composer / artist Ryoji Ikeda is a leading international figure amongst the new crop of computer-based musicians exploring the aesthetic possibilities opened up by digital production technologies. Ikeda brings two strikingly contrasting multimedia performance works, C4I and formula, to play out on a film screen installed at the Arts Centre Playhouse for this year's Festival.
Focusing on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself, Ryoji Ikeda explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties and revealing its relationship to human perception. He pushes digital technology to the utmost limit developing "microscopic" methods for sound engineering and composition, resulting in an aesthetic of "ultra minimalism". His pioneering work suggests a unique orientation for our future multimedia environment and culture.
formula is a constantly evolving screen work updated with each presentation. It is a perfect synchronisation of Ikeda's sound frequencies and the images projected onto the screen on an otherwise empty white stage. The viewer is placed in a "binary geometry of space" with the darkness exploited to amplify perceptions. Strobe effects, a throbbing central dot, fast-moving perpendicular lines and flashes of video montage are featured. The audience find themselves confronted with these amplified rapid-fire images, as well as aural sensations such as morse code-like blips and the sounds of static.
C4I is both a concert and a film that uses data as its material and theme, highlighting the ways in which data shapes our understanding of the world. Video images of landscapes are progressively abstracted into a language of data. Facts, figures and diagrams are used in a montage with dazzling graphic impact. Text excerpts elegantly punctuate the on-screen projections. Blurring the lines between nature, science and philosophy, the work subtly and hypnotically suggests the convergence of the real and the virtual. Sound and images synchronise to create this work, an atmospheric multimedia piece of insurmountable power and beauty.
Ikeda began his creative career as a sound artist and DJ in 1990. Since 1995, he has been intensely active in sound art through concerts, installations and recordings, and in 1994 he began collaborating musically with multimedia art group dumb type who were seen at the Festival in 2003 with the performance memorandum. Other collaborations include an ongoing research project with German artist/musician Carsten Nicolai, remixes of David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto and others, an exhibition project with the architect Toyo Ito and a new project with the renowned Japanese visual artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. His audio work is akin to composers such as LaMonte Young, Steve Reich, Terre Thaemlitz, Farmers Manual and Rehberg/Bauer.
Ryoji Ikeda is an emerging yet already highly influential global talent in the upward trajectory of his career. Testament to his current international significance is his inclusion in both Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Noise at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). This exhibition, from 18 August to 23 October features Ikeda's new work, data.spectra, produced by forma, and co -produced by ACMI and the existing installation work spectra II.
C4I and formula create profoundly different emotional responses and can be enjoyed as either a single performance or double-bill. Experience Ryoji Ikeda's multimedia performance brilliance, as this master of the digital form creates a powerful sonic and visual event for Festival-goers in person.
Warning: Strobe lighting and loud music
Full $20
Groups (8+) $18
Conc $15
Pay only $15 per ticket if you buy a ticket to both C4I and formula [ver.2.3]
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