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ATAK026 Berlin

Keiichiro Shibuya

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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.

Past Rank In

ATAK026 Berlin

Apple Music • Electronic Top Albums • Japan • TOP 40 • 12 Sep 2022 Apple Music • Electronic Top Albums • Hong Kong • TOP 59 • 18 Nov 2022 Apple Music • Electronic Top Albums • Argentina • TOP 81 • 25 Nov 2022 Apple Music • Electronic Top Albums • Ireland • TOP 166 • 11 Aug 2023

No one knows any reason

iTunes Store • Electronic TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 70 • 12 Nov 2023

Metaphysical Things

iTunes Store • Electronic TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 57 • 5 Mar 2024

Past Playlist In

War Cut

Spotify • New Music Everyday - tuneTracks (curated by TuneCore Japan) • 12 Sep 2022

The World as an Interface

Spotify • Pluto Selection（Biweekly） • 19 Sep 2022

Artist Profile

  • Keiichiro Shibuya

    Keiichiro Shibuya (b. 1973) is a Japanese composer, musician, and artist. His work encompasses cutting-edge electronic music, piano solos, operas, film scores, and sound installations. Through his music compositions and collaboration with artists and scientists, he challenges the boundaries between humans, technology, and life and death. In 2002, he founded the music label ATAK, working across live performance and recorded music. In 2021, he composed the opera Super Angels, commissioned by the New National Theatre Tokyo, which brought together an android, opera singers, chorus, ballet dancers, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2022, he presented MIRROR, a new Android Opera in collaboration with Buddhist chanting and a local UAE orchestra, at the Dubai Expo. In June 2023, a 70-minute full version premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with a Tokyo performance scheduled for June 2024. In April 2024, he presented his sound installation Abstract Music at the Lexus exhibition for Milan Design Week. He has also composed numerous film scores, including the music for the film Midnight Swan (2020), directed by Eiji Uchida and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, for which he won the 75th Mainichi Film Concours Music Award and the 30th Japan Film Critics Award for Best Film Score. In 2022, he composed the score for xxxHOLiC (directed by Mika Ninagawa) and provided the music for the short film KAGUYA BY GUCCI. Through his works, he continues to explore the boundaries of technology, life, and death.

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