Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics

I was looking for something to spend my Amazon gift card on, and this is what I found:

6 x 8 in. / 64 pgs / 64 color /

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A homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfege de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics began as a monthly broadcast on France culture's Atelier de Création Radiophonique, in which Ikeda created a highly physical auditory experience based on the idea of binary-logic data made audible, “to materialize the invisible domain of ‘totally pure digital data.'” This book and CD includes spreads of graphic scores, codes, symbols and the composition itself, recomposed from the ten segments in which it was originally conceived.

 

- www.artbook.com

Amazon has a cheap preorder price (26 dollars instead of 40 dollars)

http://www.amazon.com/Ryoji-Ikeda-Dataphonics/dp/2914563515

this thing's out on May 31st

Oh man, thanks for the heads-up. We just saw him do Datamatics 2.0 in Boston last month or something and it was insane. I am definitely purchasing this.