op.

by Ryoji Ikeda

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 December 2002
  • Label: Touch
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 51:47
  • Community rating: 3.03/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Ryoji Ikeda's 'op.' reduces chamber instrumentation to austere, minimal patterns, applying his electronic precision to acoustic sources. The work sits between reductionism and minimalism, its sparse gestures measured with mathematical care.

Genres

Descriptors: minimalistic, instrumental, orchestral, complex, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. I (2:20)
  2. II (4:34)
  3. III (4:46)
  4. IV (3:22)
  5. Op. 2 (For String Quartet) (15:22)
  6. Op. 3 (For String Quartet) (6:57)
  7. I (2:18)
  8. II (4:39)
  9. III (3:59)
  10. IV (3:30)

Credits

  • J茅r么me Combier - musical assistance [assistance for score]

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