Ken Ikeda is an improvisational electronic musician and composer.
His music intricately weaves FM sine waves with unique processing, reminiscent of fabric weaving, through the spontaneous extraction and amalgamation of electronic sound particles. This approach enables listeners to re-experience the nuances, the gradual fading, and eventual disappearance of their ‘inner primal landscapes’ at the moments that the sounds emerge and recede. Simultaneously, his works seek to rediscover the ritualistic spirituality, physicality, and primal rawness buried within the realms of modern music.
Over his career, Ikeda has released six solo albums and has collaborated on albums with renowned artists such as David Toop, Eddie Prevost, John Russell, Carl Stone, among others. In addition, he has made significant contributions to contemporary art and modern dance, creating soundtracks and working with notable figures like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Mariko Mori, Min Tanaka, KOM_I, and David Lynch.
Book here for London performance with Shino Yanai on 7 December 2024.
Ken IKEDA
Solo CD Album
2000 “tzuki,” , TOUCH label, London
2003 “Merge,” , TOUCH label, London
2007 “Mist On The Window”, Spekk label,Tokyo
2010 “Kosame” Spekk label,Tokyo
2016 “Primal Scene” SAD,Tokyo
2023 “Sparse Memory” Room40, Australia
Selected collaborative CD and LP
2016 “In Search of Wasabi” with John Russel and Eddie Prevost (Weekertoft, London)
2017 “Skin Tones” with David Toop (Home Normal, London)
2017 “Moss” with Chihei Hatakeyama ((White Paddy Mountain, Tokyo)
2018 “Ink on Paper” with Toshimaru Nakamura and Tomoyoshi Date(Ftarri, Tokyo)
2019 “The Whole Moon Rests in a Dewdrop on the Grass” with Eddie Prevost(Machless Recordings, London)
2019 “Erroribus Humanis et Antinomy” with Tetuzi Akiyama and Chihei Hatakeyama (Otooto, Tokyo)
2023 “DAM” with Carl Stone, Experimental Rooms, Niigata, Japan
Solo exhibitions
1999 PICTURES, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2001 BEHIND THE SCENES, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2004 Untitled, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2016 “Genhuukei-Kafou” Eitoeiko, Tokyo
2019 “La Musique Sauvage” Squrr Desrg Institute for Sociology of the Arts
Selected Group exhibitions
1994 Desert of Desires, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
1996 West Film, Film Festival, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Australia
1997 504, Zentrum fur Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany
1999 6th International Contemporary Art Festival ’99, Tokyo
2000 Sonic Boom The Art of Sound, Hayward Gallery, London
Twilight Sleep―Japanese Contemporary Videos at Age of Visual Images, Institute Giapponese di Cultura, Roma, Italy
Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, South Korea
2001 Le tribu dell’ arte, The Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome, Rome, Italy
Radical Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2002 Screen Memories, Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center Mito, Mito, Japan
2004 Roppongi Crossing―New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 、Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2010 Club21-Remaking the scene, One Marylebone, London
2017 “The Age of Disappearance” Mizuma Galler, Singapore