Data.path: Ryoji Ikeda's immersive multimedia digital technology music experience in Madrid

Japanese composer Ryoji Ikeda presents data.path for the first time in Madrid, a sound and multimedia installation that will be 28 September to 5 January in the Telefónica Foundation Space.

Specialist in musical compositions with the multidisciplinary use of artistic and technological techniques, Japanese composer Ryoji Ikeda will transform the exhibition hall Space Telefónica Foundation in his latest sound art installation, audiovisual and multimedia, called data.path.

For the first time in Madrid, this self-taught artist shows his unique work of electronic music, that transforms the eight hundred square meters of the Telefónica Foundation Space Room into a twenty-meter-long multimedia tunnel that immerses the visitor in a shocking sensory experience.

Inspired by the world of mathematics, Ikeda's facilities combine audiovisual projections with light and sound, as well as with architectural or sculptural environments through which the viewer can travel and enjoy a sensory and immersive experience.

Its artistic installations are always designed according to the specific place for which they have been designed, where all the elements (music, space, light, sound, image, audiovisual content,…) pose as a challenge to the viewer in order to awaken their senses.

For Space Telefónica Foundation, Ikeda has developed an installation consisting of a tunnel about twenty meters long whose walls are made up of two huge video screens. As you move through this space, the viewer is bombarded by a dizzying sequence of images projected synchronized with a sound piece by the artist.

Data.path is a reinterpretation of datamatics, a spectacular audiovisual concert in which Ikeda looked into the human potential to perceive the infinite and invisible substance of information that permeates the world in the form of data of all kinds (computer codes, astronomical coordinates, molecular structures, 3D spatial visions) as the only resource to achieve a succession of computer-generated images and sounds, challenging the viewer's senses and his abilities to perceive and process what's going on around him.

In addition to Data.path, shown by the 28 September to 5 January, Ikeda will hold a concert in the Auditorium of Espacio Fundación Telefónica on 27 September.

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