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dataphonics by Ryoji Ikeda
dataphonics is a publication about the eponymous project on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data.
The work by Japan's leading electronic composer and sound artist deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.” A homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer’s Solfege de l’objet sonore, dataphonics began as a monthly broadcast on France culture's Atelier de Création Radiophonique. It is a highly physical auditory response to the ever–present binary numerical system of today’s digital age, ultimately seeking to materialise the invisible domain of ‘totally-pure-digital-data’. This book and audio CD include the mathematical and graphical examinations of the fundamental binary reduction/representation of sound waveforms, and 10 audio tracks composed from non-audio data as their elemental materials.
Publisher Dis Voir
Size: 6x8 inch
Format: paperback
Pages: 64
Illustrations: 62 B&W
ISBN: 978-2-914563-51-2
Price: £27