Artist  : Cyclo.
Title   : Id
Genre   : Electronic
Year    : 2011
Date    : 03/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 11
Label   : Raster-Noton
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 44:19 min
Size    : 68,1 MB

Tracklist:

01.Id#00                                  06:56
02.Id#01                                  04:09
03.Id#02                                  02:05
04.Id#03                                  02:44
05.Id#04                                  04:23
06.Id#05                                  02:03
07.Id#06                                  04:51
08.Id#07                                  03:52
09.Id#08                                  05:36
10.Id#09                                  04:09
11.Id#10                                  03:31

44:19 min

A decade since its inception, Ryoji
Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai are
relaunching their collaborative project,
cyclo., a project that focuses on the
visualisation of sound and seeks to
create a new hybrid of visual art and
music.

Both leading electronic
composers/artists from Japan and Germany
respectively, Ikeda and Nicolai release
their second album, that will later be
followed by a publication with an
extensive presentation of their visuals.

Since the beginning of the cyclo.
project, the artists have developed a
database of sounds composed to produce
visual responses when analysed in real
time with the help of stereo image
monitoring equipment. Phase and
amplitude of stereo signals can be
illustrated graphically: the audio
elements are constructed through the
minute editing of frequencies (often
beyond the physical range of human
hearing) and selected by the artists for
their visual characteristics when
analysed. Through processes of
composition, editing and experiment,
cyclo. is amassing an æinfinity indexÆ
of sound fragments.

In building this archive, Ikeda and
Nicolai transcend the usual dynamic
whereby image acts merely as a
functional accompaniment to sound.
Instead, the audio element in the
process is subservient to the desire and
appetite of the image.

This record purposefully remains
unmastered, in order to retain the
waveforms as originally visualized
through an XY phase scope. For
listening, please do not convert the
tracks into a compressed format such as
mp3.

The full album comes as a CD followed by
a special 12ô vinyl EP (limited edition)
soon.

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