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by Ryoji Ikeda

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  • 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

  1. Headphonics 0/0 (3:12)
  2. Headphonics 0/1 (3:11)
  3. Headphonics 1/0 (4:16)
  4. + (2:50)
  5. +. (5:07)
  6. +.. (10:55)
  7. − (6:36)
  8. −. (11:51)
  9. −.. (13:24)
  10. +/− (1:05)

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