Audio-Graphic Synthesis in the Work of Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda is one of those artists who have always considered the audiovisual relationship as constitutive of their works; from the concert to the performance, from the sound installation to audiovisual devices.

Since the 90s-200s, when the notion of AV performance came into being, notably with the collective Dumb Type, Ryoji Ikeda has systematically steered their work towards an ever closer audio-graphic relationship, which finds its accomplished expression in a number of the works. By questioning the constituent elements of digital image and sound, the data, Ikeda pushes ever further a synchronised audio-graphic relationship, to the point of melting sound into image and, reciprocally, image into sound. One can even go so far as to say that in certain performances or installations, sound is image and image is sound.
here are a few of the most significant examples:

DATA.MICROHELIX, 2005, (Dataplex)

TEST PATTERN #1101 – 2008

DATAMATRIX – Live at Sonar (Barcelona) 2010

Link to the website of Ryoji Ikeda