jdperez Looking Outwards 11

For this week’s looking outwards, I looked at Ryoji Ikeda. Ikeda is a musician/visual artist that uses mathematical complexity and aesthetic to create his work. Much of his work uses raw audio forms, such as the sine wave, at the edge of the human ability to hear. With this audio, he switches between using them to create tones and percussion, with beat patterns emerging throughout many of his pieces.

The visuals are an extremely important aspect to some of his pieces, one of which is called “The Transfinite”. This was a massive installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

What I really appreciate about Ikeda’s work is how it bridges multiple disciplines effectively. As I’ve mentioned in many of my prior looking outwards posts, this is what I aspire to do in my own work.