Ryoji Ikeda, Japan's leading electronic composer / artist, focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself. Music, time and space are shaped by mathematical methods as Ikeda explores sound as sensation, pulling apart its physical properties and revealing its relationship to human perception. Since 1995 he has been intensely active in sound art through concerts, installations, and recordings, and has pioneered a new minimal world of electronic music through employing sine waves, electronic ‘glitch’ sounds, and white noise. Reflecting a sharp and highly refined sense of beauty, these minute yet dynamic sound constructions have established the artist as one of the key figures of contemporary music. formula documents Ikeda's work with superb attention to detail and layout, including biography, spacious listings of performances, releases and exhibitions, complete with photographs, schematics and technical data.
Published to accompany the formula concerts in Serralves, Porto, Portugal, October 2004 and Eyebeam, New York, November 2004, amongst others. The DVD features 8 soundtracks for installation works plus full video documentation of the formula concert.