KEN IKEDA
Sacred Offering
Boomkat Product Review:
Veteran sine wave improviser Ken Ikeda follows albums on Touch, Spekk, White Paddy Mountain and Home Normal with an album of abstracted iterations and transformations for Room40.
Ikeda's fascinated by the idea of "the savage mind", the reptile brain inside us that's been suppressed by learned behaviors. Of course, when trying to rid yourself of trained, rote motions, attempting to access this part of the brain is crucial, so Ikeda has been working to channel it using various techniques. While coming up with 'Sacred Offering', he found himself haunted by images from an Ainu ritual that had " transformed into an abstract shape and sound image", so he sketched out a picture in ink lines and used it as a graphic score, improvising while studying it. Videoing the improvisation, he drew more scores in response, repeating the process again and again until the sound made sense.
It's hard to hear the technique in the finished work, but 'Sacred Offering' is some of Ikeda's blurriest material yet. Synths are drowned in effects, layered and processed to remove them from their original context, and there are few clean, identifiable elements throughout. On 'Reason to Live' it's jarring at first when metallic rattles scrape above the dense mass of wailing oscillators - almost as if there's something else playing in a nearby room. But it's these little touches that prove Ikeda's point, wrenching us out of our comfort zone for a moment to remind us that we're still alive.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Veteran sine wave improviser Ken Ikeda follows albums on Touch, Spekk, White Paddy Mountain and Home Normal with an album of abstracted iterations and transformations for Room40.
Ikeda's fascinated by the idea of "the savage mind", the reptile brain inside us that's been suppressed by learned behaviors. Of course, when trying to rid yourself of trained, rote motions, attempting to access this part of the brain is crucial, so Ikeda has been working to channel it using various techniques. While coming up with 'Sacred Offering', he found himself haunted by images from an Ainu ritual that had " transformed into an abstract shape and sound image", so he sketched out a picture in ink lines and used it as a graphic score, improvising while studying it. Videoing the improvisation, he drew more scores in response, repeating the process again and again until the sound made sense.
It's hard to hear the technique in the finished work, but 'Sacred Offering' is some of Ikeda's blurriest material yet. Synths are drowned in effects, layered and processed to remove them from their original context, and there are few clean, identifiable elements throughout. On 'Reason to Live' it's jarring at first when metallic rattles scrape above the dense mass of wailing oscillators - almost as if there's something else playing in a nearby room. But it's these little touches that prove Ikeda's point, wrenching us out of our comfort zone for a moment to remind us that we're still alive.
Boomkat Product Review:
Veteran sine wave improviser Ken Ikeda follows albums on Touch, Spekk, White Paddy Mountain and Home Normal with an album of abstracted iterations and transformations for Room40.
Ikeda's fascinated by the idea of "the savage mind", the reptile brain inside us that's been suppressed by learned behaviors. Of course, when trying to rid yourself of trained, rote motions, attempting to access this part of the brain is crucial, so Ikeda has been working to channel it using various techniques. While coming up with 'Sacred Offering', he found himself haunted by images from an Ainu ritual that had " transformed into an abstract shape and sound image", so he sketched out a picture in ink lines and used it as a graphic score, improvising while studying it. Videoing the improvisation, he drew more scores in response, repeating the process again and again until the sound made sense.
It's hard to hear the technique in the finished work, but 'Sacred Offering' is some of Ikeda's blurriest material yet. Synths are drowned in effects, layered and processed to remove them from their original context, and there are few clean, identifiable elements throughout. On 'Reason to Live' it's jarring at first when metallic rattles scrape above the dense mass of wailing oscillators - almost as if there's something else playing in a nearby room. But it's these little touches that prove Ikeda's point, wrenching us out of our comfort zone for a moment to remind us that we're still alive.
Boomkat Product Review:
Veteran sine wave improviser Ken Ikeda follows albums on Touch, Spekk, White Paddy Mountain and Home Normal with an album of abstracted iterations and transformations for Room40.
Ikeda's fascinated by the idea of "the savage mind", the reptile brain inside us that's been suppressed by learned behaviors. Of course, when trying to rid yourself of trained, rote motions, attempting to access this part of the brain is crucial, so Ikeda has been working to channel it using various techniques. While coming up with 'Sacred Offering', he found himself haunted by images from an Ainu ritual that had " transformed into an abstract shape and sound image", so he sketched out a picture in ink lines and used it as a graphic score, improvising while studying it. Videoing the improvisation, he drew more scores in response, repeating the process again and again until the sound made sense.
It's hard to hear the technique in the finished work, but 'Sacred Offering' is some of Ikeda's blurriest material yet. Synths are drowned in effects, layered and processed to remove them from their original context, and there are few clean, identifiable elements throughout. On 'Reason to Live' it's jarring at first when metallic rattles scrape above the dense mass of wailing oscillators - almost as if there's something else playing in a nearby room. But it's these little touches that prove Ikeda's point, wrenching us out of our comfort zone for a moment to remind us that we're still alive.
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