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Ryoji Ikeda [1–11 décembre 2010] test pattern [n°3] Ryoji Ikeda, a major figure in Japanese electronic music and visual arts, who has lit up nights in Amsterdam, Barcelona and the 2008 Nuit Blanche in Paris (the column of light at the Tour Montparnasse was his doing!), installs his blacks, whites and sounds in the theatre for us to immerse ourselves or stretch out in them.
ABOUTRyoji Ikeda focuses on the weakest ultrasounds and frequencies in his work on the intrinsic characteristics of noise. Fascinated by the qualities of light, space, mathematics and sound that constitute our idea of music, he fearlessly explores these phenomena in terms of sensation. test pattern is a system that converts all sorts of information, including text, sound, film and photos into bar codes and binary series of zeroes and ones. The aim of the project is to examine the relationship between the critical thresholds of the system’s performance and the human perception of it. The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in Japan commissioned the work on which this was based (test pattern [nº1]) for an Ikeda retrospective in 2008. test pattern [nº2], a version on two large screens, one on the ground, the other on a stage, was commissioned by the Casa Encendida in April 2010. test pattern [n°3] is intended to cover the performing space of the Théâtre de Gennevilliers with its ultra-rapid successions of bar codes. Visitors’ senses of sight and sound will be pushed to the limit by this new dimension of binary representation, which will present an exciting challenge to the fields of human perception. In conjunction with Ikeda’s project, the CD “test pattern” was released by the German label Raster-Noton. INTERVIEWWhat do you set out to achieve with your work? To try to push back the threshold of what we are capable of perceiving. What was the inspiration for this project? I wanted to use a theatre to put together a large scale audiovisual installation, which is difficult to do in a lot of places. The T2G very kindly offered me the opportunity to be able to carry out this project. What can we make of it? It will give the visitors a sensation of total immersion in an artwork. Where does this work stand in terms of your career? It’s difficult to say; this project reaches a new level of tension, blurring the boundaries between music, performance, visual art, video, cinema and architecture. What are your expectations of performing for the audience at T2G? I only really want one thing- that there are as many visitors as possible… Interview by Patrick Sourd
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