1000 Fragments

by Ryoji Ikeda

1000 Fragments cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1995
  • Label: CCI Recordings
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 58:22
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda masterfully dissects the very fabric of electronic audio through meticulous, microscopic tape manipulation on '1000 Fragments'. This crucial early work pieces together disparate, highly abstract sonic shards into a dense, heavily challenging collage. It forcefully signaled his future pioneering role within the glitch and highly clinical micromusic spheres.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, sampling, electronic, minimal, experimental, repetitive, abrasive, ambient, digital, glitchy

Tracklist

  1. Channel X: testone (0:07)
  2. Channel X: trans-missions (1:36)
  3. Channel X: this is a recording (0:49)
  4. Channel X: radiorange (0:27)
  5. Channel X: what's wrong? (0:57)
  6. Channel X: holy wood (0:35)
  7. Channel X: into the tranquility (3:03)
  8. Channel X: all has been changed (0:36)
  9. Channel X: abstructures (2:54)
  10. 5 zones: zone 1 (7:45)
  11. 5 zones: zone 2 (4:41)
  12. 5 zones: zone 3 (3:09)
  13. 5 zones: zone 4 (6:38)
  14. 5 zones: zone 5 (8:41)
  15. Luxus: luxus 1-3 (16:19)

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