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"I've experienced a number of works by Ryoji Ikeda over the years, from gallery installations to live concerts to a screening at Kyoto Experiment a few years ago… While his oeuvre is well defined, and often includes extremes (volume, frequency, minimalism) the idea of experiencing his first works written for percussion intrigued me enough to book my tickets for Japan - what form could such work take? "

"Acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda creates new dimensions where art and quantum physics itersect. "

"As part of RBMA L.A Festival, Ryoji Ikeda presented a new piece called A [for 100 cars], another one based in his exploration of sine waves. This time the concert was done through the custom sound systems of 100 cars which gathered in Los Angeles, each of them equipped with a custom sine wave synth created by Tatsuya Takahashi. Each devices was designed to play a score which goes around the different conceptions of the fundamental note, A, commonly considered in 440Hz, but here questioned in mesmerizing variations."