Ultratronics

by Ryoji Ikeda

Ultratronics cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 December 2022
  • Label: NOTON
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:05:21
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Japanese sound artist and visual designer further explores the aesthetic potential of pure data and high-frequency digital synthesis. The incredibly harsh, rhythmic album relies on microscopic glitches, sine wave manipulation, and punishing bass frequencies, challenging the listener with a cold, almost violently mechanical sonic environment.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, rhythmic, noisy, avant-garde, minimalistic, electronic, minimal, experimental, repetitive, clinical

Tracklist

  1. ultratronics 00 (1:28)
  2. ultratronics 01 (5:17)
  3. ultratronics 02 (5:10)
  4. ultratronics 03 (1:49)
  5. ultratronics 04 (4:44)
  6. ultratronics 05 (5:18)
  7. ultratronics 06 (2:25)
  8. ultratronics 07 (4:42)
  9. ultratronics 08 (5:36)
  10. ultratronics 09 (4:13)
  11. ultratronics 10 (3:45)
  12. ultratronics 11 (5:30)
  13. ultratronics 12 (3:48)
  14. ultratronics 13 (3:10)
  15. ultratronics 14 (2:06)
  16. ultratronics 15 (4:24)
  17. ultratronics 16 (1:55)

Credits

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