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Ryoji Ikeda: See You at Regis Debray

By David Abravanel

No literally, it’s the sound reel from the film. [17 February 2009]

Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern

Ikeda produces an album to remind listeners that all digital music is data. [14 January 2009]

Ryoji Ikeda: Dataplex

By Tim O'Neil

Instead of a modern studio, one imagines the tracks on Dataplex having been constructed inside an industrial cleanroom of the same type that manufactures microprocessors and semiconductors. [13 February 2006]