Video: Music influenced by mathematics. Light and Music Space by Ryoji Ikeda
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Literally everything in our world can be described using mathematical formulas. Including music. After all, sound is waves. And light is waves. Here is sound, light and mathematics combined in an installation "Transfinite" Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda.
Experiments on combining music and light have been successfully going on for more than a hundred years (if you keep an account of the "light symphony" in the musical poem "Prometheus" by Alexander Scriabin, staged in 1910). But until now, only specifically music and light have been united. Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda, on the other hand, adds mathematics to this list.
After all, measuring harmony with algebra, as we know from the work of the American photographer and mathematician Nikki Graziano, is as easy as shelling pears. Ryoji Ikeda decided to do something similar, but he used not photography, but music.
Ikeda created the installation, which is a hall measuring 17 meters long, 14 meters wide and 1.3 meters high. The horizontal and vertical surfaces in this room are projection screens on which a special image is displayed - the decomposition of Ryoji Ikeda's music using special mathematical formulas into black and white stripes or numbers.
“In my opinion, mathematics is the most beautiful thing in the world! Numbers, quantities and forms are perfect, regardless of how we perceive them, what meanings we put into them. With the help of mathematics, we are faced with the infinity of the Universe, the thoughts of which make us open our mouths in surprise. My project explores the myriad of intersections that are possible between such polar things as the beautiful and the sublime, music and mathematics, performance and installation, composer and artist, author and audience, black and white, zero and one , - explains this meaning of this work Ryoji Ikeda.
This installation is exhibited at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
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