Ryoji Ikeda








CURRENT PRODUCTIONS


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> music for percussion 2 (2020) — Commissioned by Musica, GRAME and La Muse en Circuit
music for percussion 2 © Christophe Urbain		Commissioned on the occasion of a focus on Ryoji Ikeda in Musica Festival 2020, *music for percussion 2* consists of five pieces using nonmusical objects as telegraph keys, metronomes, a long table, pieces of paper, pencils and rulers. Percussion: Alexandre Babel, Stéphane Garin and Amélie Grould Premiere: 19 September 2020, Musica Festival, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg (FR)



> 100 cymbals (2019) — Co-producued by Musica and Les Percussions de Strasbourg
100 cymbals © Ian-Byers Gamber / LA Philharmonic		In 2018 Ryoji Ikeda created a special version of Metal Music III for 100 cymbals, commissioned by LA Philharmonic, conducted by Eklekto's artistic director Alexandre Babel. The work was premiered in France in 2020, performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, as part of the *Portrait Ryoji Ikeda* in Musica Festival. Premiere: 15 February 2019, Fluxus Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, (US) French premiere: 17 September 2020, Musica Festival, Palais de la musique et des congrès, Strasbourg (FR)



> music for percussion 1 (2016) — Commissioned and performed by Eklekto
music for percussion © Raphaëlle Mueller		Ryoji Ikeda joined forces with the swiss percussion collective Eklekto to create a new musical project. For this occasion, Ikeda is working with pure acoustic sounds. Instead of projections and electronic sounds, he is working with a group of 4 percussionists. music for percussion consists of four distinct pieces performed one after the other. Premiere: 10 September 2016, Festival La Bâtie, Genève (CH)


> superposition (2012)
superposition © Kazuo Fukunaga courtesy of Kyoto Experiment		superposition explores a new notion of information: quantum information. After almost a decade of research on the discrete and the continuous, mathematical beauty and sublimation, Ryoji Ikeda has finally found a space where all mathematical concepts find an explanation in the notion of qubit, an infinite grey area between 0 and 1 in which probability and uncertainty coexist. Preview: 5 August 2012, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE). World Première: 14 November 2012, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) VIDEO