ATAK026
Berlin
Keiichiro Shibuya
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.
- 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
- 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
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mariaDedicated this album to maria, who founded ATAK together 20 years ago.

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.