Ken Ikeda

b. 1960s, Japan

Ken Ikeda is an improvisational electronic musician and composer.

His music intricately weaves FM sine waves with unique processing, reminiscent of fabric weaving, through the spontaneous extraction and amalgamation of electronic sound particles. This approach enables listeners to re-experience the nuances, the gradual fading, and eventual disappearance of their ‘inner primal landscapes’ at the moments that the sounds emerge and recede. Simultaneously, his works seek to rediscover the ritualistic spirituality, physicality, and primal rawness buried within the realms of modern music.

Over his career, Ikeda has released six solo albums and has collaborated on albums with renowned artists such as David Toop, Eddie Prevost, John Russell, Carl Stone, among others. In addition, he has made significant contributions to contemporary art and modern dance, creating soundtracks and working with notable figures like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Mariko Mori, Min Tanaka, KOM_I, and David Lynch.

Book here for London performance with Shino Yanai on 7 December 2024.

Solo CD Album

2000 “tzuki,” , TOUCH label, London

2003 “Merge,” , TOUCH label, London

2007  “Mist On The Window”, Spekk label,Tokyo

2010  “Kosame”  Spekk label,Tokyo

2016  “Primal Scene” SAD,Tokyo

2023  “Sparse Memory” Room40, Australia

Selected collaborative CD and LP

2016 “In Search of Wasabi” with John Russel and Eddie Prevost (Weekertoft, London)

2017 “Skin Tones” with David Toop (Home Normal, London)

2017 “Moss” with Chihei Hatakeyama ((White Paddy Mountain, Tokyo)

2018 “Ink on Paper” with Toshimaru Nakamura and Tomoyoshi Date(Ftarri, Tokyo)

2019 “The Whole Moon Rests in a Dewdrop on the Grass” with Eddie Prevost(Machless Recordings, London)

2019 “Erroribus Humanis et Antinomy” with Tetuzi Akiyama and Chihei Hatakeyama (Otooto, Tokyo)

2023  “DAM” with Carl Stone, Experimental Rooms, Niigata, Japan

Solo exhibitions

1999 PICTURES, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

2001 BEHIND THE SCENES, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

2004 Untitled, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

2016  “Genhuukei-Kafou” Eitoeiko, Tokyo

2019  “La Musique Sauvage” Squrr Desrg Institute for Sociology of the Arts

Selected Group exhibitions

1994 Desert of Desires, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1996 West Film, Film Festival, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Australia

1997 504, Zentrum fur Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany

1999 6th International Contemporary Art Festival ’99, Tokyo

2000 Sonic Boom The Art of Sound, Hayward Gallery, London

Twilight Sleep―Japanese Contemporary Videos at Age of Visual Images, Institute Giapponese di Cultura, Roma, Italy

Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, South Korea

2001 Le tribu dell’ arte, The Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome, Rome, Italy

Radical Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2002 Screen Memories, Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center Mito, Mito, Japan

2004 Roppongi Crossing―New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 、Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2010  Club21-Remaking the scene, One Marylebone, London

2017  “The Age of Disappearance” Mizuma Galler, Singapore
 
 

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