Listening Note 012

New release “Empty set II”
A new binaural evolution of my 2025 spatial sound installation Empty set -Zero with Runa Ikeda is now available on BandCamp.

Originally created as an immersive Dolby Atmos installation for gallery spaces, the source material has been significantly altered, transformed, and reimagined into a new binaural piece for Empty set II.
Best experienced with headphones or earphones.

“Empty set”
The collaboration project "Empty Set" by Runa Ikeda and Shinichiro Ikeda explores the themes of circulation and loops.

Runa, in her pursuit of the concepts of t temporality and eternity, presents the flow and rhythm of stillness and movement within cycles of life and circulation. She showcases this in her main works, which include drawings and canvas pieces, along with clay works, speaker stands made from straw, cement, and wood, and installation pieces. Some of her works also feature a collaboration with Erina Mori using tatami and iron frames, while experimental elements arising from collaborations with musicians and designers are also explored.

Shinichiro, on the other hand, presents "Empty Set -zero-", a continuation of the Empty Set series, as a sound installation. In addition to an immersive sound experience with Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 channels, he focuses on exploring the concept of "sound that exists here and now," without being aware of the concept of time in music.He also took charge of mixing in Dolby Atmos himself.

Artwork Runa Ikeda