Japanese artist, musician and researcher currently based in Hong Kong. He explores the possibilities of meaning and context mediated by sound, as well as its materiality in relation to digital sound and audio technologies. Ryo Ikeshiro works within installations and live performances in a variety of formats – from immersive multi-projection environments, to 360-degree videos and surround sound, to field recordings, interactive works, teletext art and generative compositions. His work uses sonification techniques – the communication of information and data through sound other than speech – in an artistic context. Algorithms and processes are presented as sound works that explore digital creativity and the relationship between sound and the visual. He also addresses themes of identity and otherness. His most recent works explore the possibilities of machine listening and directional sound technologies.

 

bug – live version

bug considers machine listening as a live performance, presenting it in a site-specific three-dimensional audio environment. Beams of sound from the transborder agglomeration of Hong Kong and Shenzhen are made audible using directional speakers, sonically activating the architecture of the space. Partial soundscapes and lasers are projected and shifted along the walls and the ceiling, transporting the audience into a parallel soundscape and allowing them to listen in, together with a neural network, as it navigates through field recordings in Ambisonics, a spherical audio format.