0°C

by Ryoji Ikeda

0°C cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 August 1998
  • Label: Touch
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 38:25
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda masterfully dissects the microscopic elements of digital sound on this clinical, minimalist masterwork. Utilizing extreme frequencies, microscopic clicks, and precisely sculpted sine waves, '0°C' challenges the limits of human hearing and auditory perception, constructing a sterile, mathematical environment that is both alienating and beautiful.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, noisy, uncommon-time-signatures, atonal, rhythmic, electronic, minimal, experimental, repetitive, clinical

Tracklist

  1. C₁:: Check (0:27)
  2. C₂:: Cacoepy (0:22)
  3. C₃:: Circuit (0:48)
  4. C₄:: Contexture (1:49)
  5. C₅:: Cuts (0:39)
  6. C₆:: Counterpoint (2:59)
  7. C₇:: Continuum (5:25)
  8. C₈:: Can(n)on (1:01)
  9. C₉:: Cadenza (1:22)
  10. C₀:: Coda (for T.F.) (7:19)
  11. 0°:: Zero Degrees, Part 1 (3:31)
  12. 0°:: Zero Degrees, Part 2 (5:30)
  13. 0°:: Zero Degrees, Part 3 (7:07)

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