Test Pattern

by Ryoji Ikeda

Test Pattern cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 2008
  • Label: Raster-Noton
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:07:18
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed entirely through a system that converts various digital data streams (including text, images, and video) into high-velocity audio signals, the Japanese composer's release is a punishing masterclass in extreme sonic minimalism. The tracks operate on the absolute edge of human auditory perception, utilizing blistering, microscopic clicks, harsh static, and high-frequency sine waves. It represents a breathtakingly cold, mathematical approach to electronic sound design.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, minimalistic, complex, rhythmic, instrumental, atonal, electronic, minimal, experimental, deconstructed, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. test pattern #0001 (1:00)
  2. test pattern #0010 (1:21)
  3. test pattern #0011 (3:51)
  4. test pattern #0100 (3:43)
  5. test pattern #0101 (4:05)
  6. test pattern #0110 (4:00)
  7. test pattern #0111 (5:00)
  8. test pattern #1000 (5:00)
  9. test pattern #1001 (5:10)
  10. test pattern #1010 (5:01)
  11. test pattern #1011 (5:03)
  12. test pattern #1100 (5:07)
  13. test pattern #1101 (5:10)
  14. test pattern #1110 (2:35)
  15. test pattern #1111 (7:12)
  16. test pattern #0000 (3:55)

Credits

  • Ryoji Ikeda - primary artist, producer
  • Forma - management [artist management]

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