Ryoji Ikeda - data-cosm [n°1]

* Limited to 1000 copies worldwide
* 17-minute soundtrack to Ikeda's acclaimed installation, data-cosm  [n°1]
* Commissioned by and premiered at 180 Studios, 2025
* Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl
* Die-cut outer sleeve
* Full colour inner sleeve
* Artwork by Ryoji Ikeda
* Mastered by Noel Summerville 
* Manufactured at The Vinyl Factory, Hayes
* Release date: 15/12/2025

  
Commissioned and produced by 180 Studios, Ryoji Ikeda’s site-specific audio- visual installation data-cosm [n°1] is a unique immersive experience charting the full spectrum of data on nature – from the microscopic scale of particle physics to the macroscopic of astrophysics, as was previously evident in the artist’s data-verse project.

Premiered at 180 Studios in October 2025, data-cosm [n°1] functions as a giant microscope, a scientific apparatus, a clinical device, a monitoring system, and a window to an infinitely vast space. Visitors are invited to lie down on the floor and look up at the large LED screen set on the ceiling above them, their bodies surrounded by Ikeda’s soundscapes – a total sensory experience.

Ryoji Ikeda 

Japan’s leading composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that
of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan, Ikeda has gained a reputation as one
of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.

The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios have been collaborating with Ikeda since 2015, when The Vinyl Factory staged
the UK premiere of Ikeda’s audio-visual installation supersymmetry at Brewer Street Car Park in Soho, London. 180 Studios subsequently exhibited the Ikeda’s iconic interactive work test pattern, drawing over 100,000 visitors to 180 The Strand in 2017. Four years later, 180 Studios commissioned and produced Ikeda’s largest-ever European exhibition, featuring over 10 artworks, creating an unrivalled immersive experience across two floors of the building that drew both critical acclaim and record numbers of visitors.