Ryoji Ikeda is Japan's leading electronic composer and sound artist who has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. Since 1995, Ikeda has been intensely active through concerts, installations, and recordings, integrating sound, acoustics and sublime imagery. This is the catalogue of his latest exhibition and first major retrospective: +/- [the infinite between 0 and 1] at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (April - June 2009). This book documents Ikeda's visual art practice to date. It reflects on datamatics, a series of experiments that explore the vast universe of data in the infinity between 0 and 1, and presents new works commissioned by the Museum. These include large-scale and audiovisual projections, sound works and sculptural pieces, evolving the synaesthetic effects of Ikeda's earlier works, fusing sound and image in intensely physical experiences. Music, time and space are shaped by mathematical methods as Ikeda explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties to reveal its relationship with human perception. Co-published by Esquire Magazine Japan Co. Ltd & Forma Arts & Media Ltd. English and Japanese text.
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