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ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai
an evening curated by roland spekle , hosted by the springdance festival, photo: © anna van kooij<br />
<strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>. trans<strong>for</strong>m audio visuals live‚ sonic architecture /static movement‘<br />
stadsschouwburg springdance festival, 27.april 2003
the new york times wrote: friday jan 29, 1999<br />
The German electronic-music composer Carsten Nicolai (known as Noto)<br />
makes you think about the future of music,...<br />
ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai<br />
-Berlin based sound artist Carsten Nicolai aka <strong>alva</strong>.<strong>noto</strong> has established himself as a leading member in the realm of<br />
electronic sound and visual designers whom are using art and music as hybrid tools to create microscopic views of creative<br />
processes.<br />
Nicolai has per<strong>for</strong>med and created installations in many of the world‘s most prestigious spaces including The Guggenheim<br />
NYC, MOMA SF, MOMA Ox<strong>for</strong>d, NTT Tokyo, and BiennaleVenedig Italy. He is also a member of the exceptional label,<br />
<strong>Raster</strong>-<strong>Noton</strong>, responsible <strong>for</strong> the acclaimed CD series ‚20‘ to 2000‘ that went on to win the ‚Golden Nica‘ prize at Prix<br />
Ars Electronica 2000.<br />
<strong>alva</strong>.<strong>noto</strong> plays with the rules of physicality. Sound is changed and evolved into time and space sinustones made use by<br />
looping oscillators, tone generators and modem sounds - the essense of pure electricity becomes audible. „trans<strong>for</strong>m“ could<br />
be referred to as ‚posthuman funk‘- Nicolai works without sequencers, but mathematically edits the album to give his<br />
compositions precise rhythmic structures.<br />
Clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential elements. These sound<br />
sources are applied to the rhythmic groove of Hip-Hop and R&B. Like nothing you have ever heard, <strong>alva</strong>.<strong>noto</strong> ignores the<br />
limits between genres and brings experimentalism one step closer to the clubs.
an evening curated by roland spekle , hosted by the springdance festival, photo: © anna van kooij<br />
<strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>. trans<strong>for</strong>m audio visuals live‚ sonic architecture /static movement‘<br />
stadsschouwburg springdance festival, 27.april 2003
the german artist/musician carsten nicolai uses electronic sound and visual art as a<br />
kind of hybrid- tool to create his own microscopic view of creative processes.<br />
ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai<br />
rob young co editor of the wire mag:<br />
The soundworks of Carsten Nicolai confront the viewer - and listener – with the dichotomy between electricity and<br />
electronics hinted at by Virilio. Electronics come prepacked; they harness the raw natural power of electricity by converting<br />
it from direct to alternating current; com<strong>press</strong> it ready <strong>for</strong> extrusion through microchips installed within miniaturised<br />
components. Electronics readies electricity <strong>for</strong> the marketplace, and commodifies its power through ever proliferating infinities<br />
of electronic goods. The marketplace channels production towards standardization, and this is as applicable to washin.....In<br />
the absence of com<strong>for</strong>ting reference points such as repetitive rhythms or vocals, these sounds drift between the speakers, or<br />
between earphones, like sonic Rorschach blots.<br />
the new york times wrote: friday jan 29, 1999, text by ben ratliff:<br />
The German electronic-music composer Carsten Nicolai (known as Noto) makes you think about the future of music, and<br />
when he per<strong>for</strong>med his work, it was easy to feel that he was part of a much larger societal movement. ...Nicolai is putting<br />
his energies toward something that isn‘t music in the traditional sense. He is a sound-researcher looking <strong>for</strong> new palettes,<br />
and he has only a slight aptitude in regard to <strong>for</strong>m.<br />
For better or <strong>for</strong> worse, his work can sound like speculation -- in the gold mining sense -- more than composition....Nicolai<br />
samples the sounds of electronic in<strong>for</strong>mation transmission – fax tones, modem sounds, telephone pops and clicks -- and<br />
organizes them into loops, to which he adds longer electronic tones in the background and <strong>for</strong>eground as the piece progresses.
photo: lutger paffrath<br />
<strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>. transrapid, 12 inch, raster-<strong>noto</strong>n cat.: no.: r-n 61
This is a new <strong>for</strong>m of pop music, while at the same time conscious of how Kraftwerk<br />
should really be sounding right now.<br />
ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai<br />
ALVA NOTO – TRANSRAPID EP<br />
( RASTER NOTON / 051 )<br />
REVIEW DE:BUG 67 - 01.2003<br />
<strong>Raster</strong> <strong>Noton</strong> records tend always to be something other than standard vinyl releases; more like designs <strong>for</strong> spaces , or interior<br />
places. Once again, this is particularly true <strong>for</strong> the new Alva Noto EP.<br />
TRANSRAPID acts as a sort of test, something that may be witnessed, passing between loudspeakers. Within this space,<br />
sparks fly through chrome funk, while references come in waves and audibility progresses towards the tangible. However, this<br />
record cannot just be registered within set parameters and thus classed as abstract music.. like breath across the ear, there is a<br />
source, it has a location.<br />
The four pieces of music here fit perfectly to the TRANSFORM Cd. With intense detailing, crackle and finely-tuned digital<br />
offcuts, the record comes together in an aesethically developed and personalised piece of independent work. This is a new <strong>for</strong>m<br />
of pop music, while at the same time conscious of how Kraftwerk should really be sounding right now.
ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai<br />
biography<br />
1965 born in karl-marx-stadt<br />
1985 -1990 studie of landscape design<br />
1994 founded <strong>noto</strong>n. archiv für ton und nichtton<br />
1999 label unit raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.de<br />
exhibitions (selection)<br />
1986 galerie eigen+art, leipzig<br />
1991 kunstwerke berlin , berlin<br />
1992 galerie springer, berlin<br />
1993 galerie eigen+art, berlin<br />
städtische kunstsammlungen chemnitz, chemnitz<br />
1994 neue nationalgalerie, berlin<br />
1996 the new york kunsthalle, new york<br />
1997 galerie eigen+art, berlin<br />
1998 galerie fuer zeitgenoessische kunst, leipzig<br />
1999 1% space, kopenhagen<br />
2000 galerie eigen + art berlin<br />
canon art alb no. 10, tokyo<br />
2001 milano mica moca<br />
sydney gnsw<br />
mich london<br />
1999 [cyclo], collaboration ryoji ikeda<br />
watari-um museum, tokyo<br />
whitechapel art gallery, london,<br />
museum of contemporary art, chicago<br />
liverpool biennial<br />
2000 [audible light] museum of modern art ox<strong>for</strong>d<br />
[bed of sound]ps1 new york<br />
[sound] icc-international, tokyo<br />
2001 venedig biennale<br />
istabule biennale<br />
2002 frequenzen (hz) schirn frankfurt<br />
2003 nano, paris<br />
uteccht<br />
vencie biennale<br />
2004 desity, paris, fri-art fribourg<br />
groupexhibitions (selection)<br />
1993 drawing center, new york<br />
1994 kunsthalle basel, basel<br />
1995 drawing center, new york<br />
1996 [ mikro makro], collaboration mika vainio,<br />
1997 documanta X , kassel<br />
p.s.1 reopening , new york<br />
1998 archipelago, stockholm
prize:<br />
2000 ars electronica prize ´GOLDEN NICA ‚ <strong>for</strong> digital music <strong>for</strong> the 20 tho 2000 series<br />
2001 ars electronica prize ´GOLDEN NICA ‚ <strong>for</strong> interactive art<br />
raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.archiv für ton und nichtton infotext : http//www.raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.de<br />
ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai<br />
discography<br />
1996 <strong>noto</strong>.spin, <strong>noto</strong>n-raster<br />
1996 Ø+<strong>noto</strong>.mikro makro, <strong>noto</strong>n-raster<br />
1997 <strong>noto</strong>.∞, <strong>noto</strong>n-raster<br />
1998 <strong>noto</strong>.kerne, plate lanch<br />
1998 <strong>noto</strong>.polyfoto, <strong>noto</strong>n-raster<br />
1999 <strong>noto</strong>. time..dot 20˙ to 2000, <strong>noto</strong>n-raster<br />
1999 <strong>noto</strong>.empty garden watari-um, on sundays, tokyo<br />
2000 <strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>.prototypes mille plateaux<br />
2000 <strong>noto</strong>. telefunken raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.<br />
2000 cyclo. raster-<strong>noto</strong>n<br />
2001 <strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>.trans<strong>for</strong>m mille plateaux/raster-<strong>noto</strong>n<br />
2002 <strong>noto</strong>.autorec. raster-<strong>noto</strong>n<br />
2002 <strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>+r.sakamoto.vrioon raster-<strong>noto</strong>n<br />
2003 <strong>alva</strong> <strong>noto</strong>.transrapid raster-<strong>noto</strong>n<br />
major per<strong>for</strong>mances:<br />
1997 dokumenta IX, kassel 2001 sfmoma san francisco<br />
1997 sonar festival, bacelona sydney opera<br />
1997 ars electronica, linz nationalgalerie berlin, hamburger bahnhof<br />
1998 steim festival, amsterdam tempodrom, berlin<br />
1998 v2_archiv, rotterdam 2002 baltic, newcastle, uk, vilette numerique, paris<br />
1998 experimental ex<strong>press</strong>, spiral, tokyo 2003 rotterdam film festival<br />
1999 zkm, kahrsruhe<br />
1999 phonotaktik, vienna<br />
1999 beta festival, berlin<br />
1999 gfzk - new <strong>for</strong>ms, leipzig<br />
1999 rote fabrik - electrip, zuerich<br />
1999 volksbuehne - 20’ to 2000, berlin<br />
2000 guggenheimmuseum new york city<br />
2000 taktlos bern<br />
2000 sonic acts, paradiso, amsterdam<br />
2000 experimental ex<strong>press</strong>, spiral, tokyo<br />
2002 watari-ummuseum tokyo, <strong>for</strong> buckminster fuller<br />
2003 springdance, utecht<br />
2004 recombinat lab compound, san fancisco
ALVA NOTO<br />
Carsten Nicolai<br />
contact:<br />
raster-<strong>noto</strong>n. archiv für ton und nichtton<br />
carsten nicolai: mailto:<strong>noto</strong>@raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.de<br />
www.raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.de<br />
<strong>for</strong> a high resolution (16mb) download please visit<br />
http://www.raster-<strong>noto</strong>n.de/upload/<strong>press</strong>_<strong>alva</strong>.<strong>noto</strong>.pdf<br />
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