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by Ryoji Ikeda
- Type: Album
- Released: October 1996
- Label: Touch
- Country: Japan
- Length: 1:02:33
- Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A rigorous exploration of extremes in human auditory perception, pushing high frequencies and sub-bass tones to the absolute limits of physical media. The Japanese sound artist meticulously constructed the compositions from raw sine waves and digital noise fragments, defining the emerging glitch and micromontage aesthetics. The clinical, mathematically precise sonic environment requires deep listener immersion and challenges traditional concepts of musical composition.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, rhythmic, instrumental, aleatory, minimalistic, electronic, experimental, minimal, conceptual
Tracklist
- Headphonics 0/0 (3:12)
- Headphonics 0/1 (3:11)
- Headphonics 1/0 (4:16)
- + (2:50)
- +. (5:07)
- +.. (10:55)
- − (6:36)
- −. (11:51)
- −.. (13:24)
- +/− (1:05)