Leading Japanese electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda returns to the Barbican for two concerts only after the sell-out success of his audiovisual concert datamatics [ver2.0] as part of SPILL Festival of Performance 2011.
Employing a spectacular combination of synchronized video screens, real-time content feeds, digital sound sculptures and – for the first time in Ikeda’s work – human performers, superposition explores the thrilling conceptual world opened up by quantum theory.
Ikeda’s immersive and viscerally exciting music plunges you into the grey space between 0 and 1, true and false, where uncertainty and probability coexist, through a powerful display of technology and art designed to take the spectator inside the indescribable structures at the very foundation of all life.
‘A compelling, breathtaking audiovisual experience’ ★★★★ Resident Advisor on datamatics
Concept, direction and music Ryoji Ikeda
in collaboration with
Performers Stéphane Garin, Amélie Grould
Programming, graphics and computer system Tomonaga Tokuyama, Norimichi Hirakawa, Yoshito Onishi
Optical devices Norimichi Hirakawa
Stage manager Simon MacColl
Technical manager Tomonaga Tokuyama
Production assistant Daisuke Sekine
Co-produced by the Barbican (London), Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR), Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR), Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges, BE), Festival de Marseille (FR), EPPGH La Villette (Paris, FR), Kyoto Experiment (JP), ZKM (Karlsruhe, DE)
Supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and DICRéAM-CNC (FR)
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27 March and 28 March from 8pm. Duration 70min/plus one interval
To book tickets, call 020 7638 8891 or visit the Barbican website