ATAK026
Berlin
Keiichiro Shibuya

11 September 2022 Released

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
CREDIT
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.

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.