Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda was born in 1966 in Gifu. He started his sound artist career as a DJ in the nineties, then he joined the multidisciplinary group Dumb Type established in Kyoto, which exhibits complex structures about the relations between man, the media and technology.

He created the label CCI Recordings and started his solo career in 1995 with the album 1000 Fragments that would lead him to play on numerous stages, be it in Japan, Europe or the United States.

For his fifth album named Matrix, he received in 2001 the Golden Nica prize from the Ars Electronica festival of Linz, in Austria. He worked that same year with the German artist Carsten Nicolai (better known under his scenic name Alva Noto), with whom he created the project Cyclo.

The latest works of Ryoji Ikeda consider the existing relations between music, rhythm, and mathematical logic.