If each part of the marriage were isolated into constituent parts, they might prove too clinical or precious, but together a delicate vibrancy is created. This relationship lies at the core of Insen and continues Vrioon's cool melancholia in subtler, even more streamlined fashion. Both explore the potential for interaction and tension between electronic and acoustic instrumentation, the latter taking form in Sakamoto's piano. Both represent something of a departure from the ascetic bent of their peers. Insen is heir to Vrioon (2003), Alva Noto's collaboration with Japanese multi-instrumentalist Ryuichi Sakamoto. Released in 2005 by Nicolai's Raster-Noton label, it follows the duo's debut album Vrioon, which was named album of the year in 2004 by The Wire magazine. After participating in international exhibitions like Documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale, Nicolai’s works have been shown worldwide in extensive solo and group exhibitions.The album's core sound is a blend of Sakamoto's impressionist piano melodies and Nicolai's digitally processed beats and sounds. His installations have a minimalistic aesthetic that by its elegance and consistency is highly intriguing. He seeks to overcome the separation of sensory perceptions by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable to both eyes and ears. Nicolai’s musical œuvre echoes in his work as a visual artist. More recent collaborations include the score of Richard Siegal’s choreographic piece Oval performed by the Staatsballett Berlin and premiered at the Berlin State Opera in 2019. In 2018, he created the sound design for Iñárritu’s groundbreaking VR project Carne y Arena. The score was nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, Grammy and Critics Choice Award. Together with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nicolai scored the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant.
Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London. Among others, he performed at the Solomon R. Nicolai toured extensively as Alva Noto through Europe, Asia, South America and the US. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alva Noto has received more than 202,856 page views. Diverse musical projects include remarkable collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Blixa Bargeld and Mika Vainio. Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a German musician and visual artist.Read more on Wikipedia. By 2017, NOTON started working independently, releasing Alva Noto’s back catalog and collaborative works.
In the same year the collaboration with RasterMusic began and by 1999, the two labels merged into Raster-Noton. The Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD, Album) Milan, Regency, Ratpac Entertainment, Alpha (10), 20th Century Fox, Universal Music France, Warner Music International, Universal Licensing Music (ULM) 399 785-2. The imprint started its activities in 1996 with the release of noto “spin” record. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner. NOTON is the label founded in 1994 by Carsten Nicolai. Born in 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, he is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art, and science. For his music works, he uses the pseudonym Alva Noto. Be Sound, where he is an exhibiting artist with his work Milch.Ĭarsten Nicolai is a German artist and musician based in Berlin. HYBR:ID SESSION and the artist talk with Carsten Nicolai are presented in conjunction with Orchestral Manoeuvres: See Sound.
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One of the most prominent figures working at the intersection of music, art, and science, Nicolai is renowned for his sound experiments in the field of electronic music, in which he creates his code of signs, acoustics, and visual symbols with a firm adherence to reductionism.Īlongside the premiere of his new film at the museum, Nicolai will be in a live-streamed talk discussing his artistic oeuvre and practice.
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