This album is the 20th-anniversary of ATAK, the label established by Keiichiro Shibuya in 2002. It is a collection of music created for a live performance at Transmediale, a media art festival in Berlin, Germany, in 2008. Shibuya reconstructed and rearranged them thoroughly in 2022. It is also a milestone of collaboration with Takashi Ikegami, a researcher of complex systems and artificial life and a professor at the University of Tokyo. All sounds in the album consist of a multiplication of noise converted and generated internally by a computer from scientific data. It also contains quotes from a conversation in Berlin in 2008 with Otto E. Rösler, a German biochemist known for his work on chaos theory and the theoretical equation known as the Rössler attractor. In 2008, ATAK’s co-founder and Shibuya’s partner maria passed away. It was also the turning point in his music career – 2008 was the last year that Shibuya worked exclusively in electronic music before he began composing piano and opera music. In other words, it is a work that goes back to the roots of Shibuya’s music.

▶︎Tracklist
01. War Cut
02. Slave To The Rhythm
03. It doesn’t exist in Mathematics and Physics
04. Variations of Silence and Error
05. No one knows any reason
06. Metaphysical Things
07. The World as an Interface
08. Complex Systems
09. Near-death experiences

 
▶︎Credits
Produced and Composed by Keiichiro Shibuya (2008/2022)
 
Sound Generated by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami
Voice by Otto Eberhard Rössler (Berlin, 2008)
 
Mixed by Keiichiro Shibuya
Mastering by Enyang Urbiks (Urbiks Studio)
 
Designed by Ryoji Tanaka
Photographed by Julia von Vietinghoff
 
Production Management by Natsumi Matsumoto
Production by ATAK
 
Special Thanks
Stefan Riekeles
Andreas Broeckmann
Kazunao Abe
Takashi Ikegami
evala
maria
 
Dedicated this album to maria, who founded ATAK together 20 years ago.