About
Shinichiro Ikeda is a Berlin-based spatial sound artist and performer whose practice explores immersive listening, coexistence, and the relationships between human, non-human, environmental, and technological forms of presence.
Working with field recordings, hydrophones, synthesizers, electroacoustic processing, and spatial audio systems, he creates listening environments that blur the boundaries between natural and artificial, familiar and unfamiliar, memory and immediate perception. Rather than treating these elements as opposites, his work explores how different forms of presence may coexist within shared sonic spaces.
For Ikeda, listening is not a search for answers but an ongoing practice of attention. Through installations, performances, and site-responsive works, he investigates how sound can reveal subtle relationships between bodies, environments, histories, and technologies, inviting audiences into immersive experiences where distinctions become fluid and new forms of awareness may emerge.
His recent works include the Dolby Atmos installation Empty Set – zero at Mommsen35 in Berlin, alongside performances and collaborations presented at venues and festivals across Europe and Japan. Through his artistic practice, he continues to explore spatial listening as a way of engaging with coexistence, perception, and transformation.