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 Hello, looks like Carsten Nicolai is rather popular here, excellent., reason enough to post more work by him the coming weeks.


Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a German musician and visual artist. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryoji Ikeda, ANBB with Blixa Bargeld, ALPHABET with Anne-James Chaton. Opto with Thomas Knak, and Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with whom he composed the score for the 2015 film The Revenant.




Carsten Nicolai, born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, is a German artist and musician based in Berlin. He is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science. In his work he seeks to overcome the separation of the sensory perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both eyes and ears. Influenced by scientific reference systems, Nicolai often engages mathematic patterns such as grids and codes, as well as error, random and self-organizing structures. His installations have a minimalistic aesthetic that by its elegance and consistency is highly intriguing. After his participation in important international exhibitions like documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale, Nicolai’s works were shown worldwide in extensive solo and group exhibitions.

His artistic œuvre echoes in his work as a musician. For his musical outputs he uses the pseudonym Alva Noto. With a strong adherence to reductionism he leads his sound experiments into the field of electronic music creating his own code of signs, acoustics and visual symbols. Together with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider he is co-founder of the label 'raster-noton. archiv für ton und nichtton'. Diverse musical projects include remarkable collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo.), Blixa Bargeld or Mika Vainio. Nicolai toured extensively as Alva Noto through Europe, Asia, South America and the US. Among others, he performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London. Most recently Nicolai scored the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film, 'The Revenant' which has been nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Critics Choice Award.

biography
lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz, Germany
1965    born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR
1985-90    Study of landscape architecture. Dresden, Germany
1992    Co-founder of the project Voxxx-Kultur- und Kommunikationszentrum, Chemnitz, Germany
1994    Foundation of noton.archiv für ton und nichtton
1999    Label fusion to raster-noton
2015    Professorship in art with focus on digital and time-based media, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
Prizes / Scholarships
2014    17th Japan Media Arts Festival, Grand Prize (Art Division), Japan (crt mgn installation)
2012    Giga-Hertz-Award, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (cyclo. id publication with ryoji ikeda)
2007    Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
     Zurich Prize, Zurich, Switzerland
2003    Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA
2001    prize ars electronica, golden nica, Linz, Austria (polar installation with marko peljhan)
2000    f6-philip morris, graphic prize, Dresden, Germany
     prize ars electronica, golden nica, Linz, Austria (20' to 2000 project)
1990    Jürgen Ponto prize, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Artworks in Public Space
2015    chroma actor, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2011    lfo spectrum, Olympic Park, London, UK
2010    monitor, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK
     autor, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (temporary)
2009    poly stella, Kasumigaseki Building Plaza, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
     pionier ll, Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, Italy (temporary)
2006    polylit, Kleiner Schlossplatz, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2005    frequenz (milch), Tramhaltestelle, Hauptbahnhof Leipzig, Germany


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Following two critically acclaimed album-length collaborations, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto set off on an expansive tour of Europe's most prestigious art galleries and concert halls to celebrate their partnership. This three-track Rev EP was released as a tour accompaniment, and features three previously unreleased compositions from the Insen and Vrioon sessions. The EP's opener "siisx" features Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) taking complete control over the sound design and arrangement of the composition; dissecting Sakamoto's emotive piano lines carefully as a surgeon and feeding them through his laptop; processing and recalculating every measure with immense consideration to tempo and dynamics. The EP's second tune "mur" sounds similar in arrangement, tone, and rhythm to Insen's opening tune "Aurora." Rev EP concludes with a very loose, very skeletal reinterpretation of Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence," which was the theme to a 1983 David Bowie movie with the same title. It's easy to see why none of these tracks were on the initial two albums, as none of them really could be included and flow along with the initial sequencing easily. But for fans of their collaboration wanting more it's a delight to hear even the outtakes from these two electronic music pioneers past and present.



<a href="http://depositfiles.com/files/bs7iltl81">   Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Revep + Zone  </a> ( flac 206mb)

01 Siisx 7:25
02 Mur 8:14
03 Ax Mr. L 4:19
04 Zone (1) 9:00
05 Zone (2) 9:00
 
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This CD documents the cooperation between zeitkratzer and Carsten Nicolai, started nearly a decade ago; a cooperation between an avantgarde ensemble and a non-academic electronic musician. The electronic music of Carsten Nicolai – sometimes being of even cristal clearness and quality – suddenly becomes sensual and physical through zeitkratzer’s amplified instrumental sounds. Inversely, zeitkratzer sounds different too: in „5 min“ the musicians play only electric sound generators: humming of plugs, the peeping of the synchronised zeitkratzer-clocks, white noise, TV cheeping at 10 kHz. „Synchron Bitwave“, the latest piece is the most sensual and warmest; no other sounds than a small third and its electric derivates, finally leading to high, dabbed string spiccati. While  „c1“ transfers electronically conceived asymmetrical loops into a  19/16th rhythm. A strange undertow results, partly because of the pieces’ grounding with merging split sounds. Here, Carsten Nicolai virtually becomes metaphysical, perhaps even romantic…



<a href="https://mir.cr/ZKXUIEWK"> Carsten Nicolai & Zeitkratzer - Electronics  </a> ( flac 269 mb)

01 Synchron Bitwave 16:16
02 5 Min 8:09
03 C1 13:55
04 C1 13:24

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Transform was the second studio album by Alva Noto. It was released 2001 via Mille Plateaux label. and re-released in 2008 via Raster-Noton label. The album is the first part of Alva Noto's Transall series, along with the EPs Transrapid, Transspray, and Transvision (2001–2006). Nice rhythmic work of glitches, beeps and the like. Rock and roll without the roll is common enough; the old line is that the Fall are rock and roll without the rock; perhaps this is funk without the funk, house without the house, glitch without the glitch (since that requires unintended deviation from a normal pattern, but here there first seems to be no normal pattern, then no deviation). Like the cover, there is enough outline to suggest regularity, but just enough blocked in to suggest that complete symmetry may never be possible. It is at times enormously, monumentally frustrating; it builds a statue to frustration and asks you to dance before it. Ryoji Ikeda's "Headphonics" is made from fewer sounds but is more complete - the miracle of it is that something so finished and incontrovertible is made from such slight means; it is like the theorem of music being furnished with a particularly elegant proof. Here, the spareness only makes you feel the gaps, and gaps must be filled, so you clatter your mug with pens, bang your head against the desk, crack your bones, your eyes...This is like techno for ants, you know, and enjoyable too!



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/KG3sb">    Aleph-1 -Aleph-1  </a> ( flac 205mb)

01 1 C A a 01x     7:46
02 1 C A b 05 2:24
03 1 C A c 08.2.2 7:56
04 1 C A d 04 3:36
05 1 C A e 02 8:50
06 1 C A f 0.2n     5:36
07 1 C A g 08.4s 8:55
08 1 C A h 09 3:40
09 34 4:28

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Commissioned by the city of Mannheim (Germany) for its 400th anniversary, UTP was co-composed by Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The work, whose title is deducted from the word "utopia," is scored for electronics, piano, and chamber ensemble, the latter being Ensemble Modern. It consists in extremely slow-paced tableaux of stretched out octaves and skeletal motives, a Butoh-like performance. The piece is solemn and entrancing, like Morton Feldman's music -- more elegant, perhaps. It marks a new step in the evolution of Nicolai and Sakamoto's music, together and apart, as neither of them had yet concocted something this sparse, this naked. Their previous collaborations could have been filed under "ambient music," but UTP belongs in the contemporary classical bin. This is a CD+DVD set. The CD includes a concert stereo version of the 75-minute work. The DVD has the same performance in 5.1 surround sound, shot with a single camera embracing the whole stage -- you won't see much of the musicians (then again, the stage is dark and not much is happening), but you get a great look at the big (really big!) screen in the back, where minimalistic yet beautiful "interference patterns"-like video art unfolds throughout the performance, minutely choreographed to the music. The DVD also includes a 40-minute "making of" that adds close-up shots of the musicians, an interview with the video artists, and an inside look at the dealings between composers and performers.



<a href="https://multiup.org/add919649768bec3a3daf175ea6ae1d1">   Alva Noto + R Sakamoto/Ensemble Modern - Utp </a> ( flac 367mb)

01 Attack / Transition 7:24
02 Grains 6:24
03 Particle 1 6:40
04 Transition 3:31
05 Broken Line 1 6:32
06 Plateaux 1 8:07
07 Silence 6:51
08 Particle 2 7:00
09 Broken Line 2 6:29
10 Plateaux 2 / End 12:59


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Reproduction, alteration, and decay are the main focuses of Alva Noto's Xerrox series: the music consists of samples altered by inserting noise through several rounds of copying. The resulting tracks seem to be atomizing before your ears, with an occasional effort to coalesce. Where Vol. 1 offered a sequence of alternating short raw pieces and mid-length ambient tracks, Vol. 2 presents itself as a more even and almost continuous suite of pieces. Vol. 1 was subtitled "Old World"; this one is "To the New World," but the meaning of those subtitles remains obscure and might very well be restricted to the geographical origins of the samples (provided this time around by Stephen O'Malley, Michael Nyman, and Ryuichi Sakamoto). The album starts with a long (over 25 minutes) piece split into four tracks, then a series of shorter compositions between two and eight minutes in duration. Like on Vol. 1, the music here is a lot more "ambient" than Alva Noto's average, but also starker and more multilayered than the first installment. It makes for an absorbing listen, especially in the opening suite and the three "Xerrox Monophaser" tracks. You can either study the copying/decaying processes used by Carsten Nicolai, or simply dive into this soundworld of gritty textures, glitchy pulses, and skeletal pieces whiteout melodies. If you don't intend to collect the whole series, skip Vol. 1 and start here.



<a href="https://multiup.org/768aa17f2acdba28239c010489bdbdf8">   Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2.</a> 386mb

To The New World

01 Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 12:11
02 Xerrox Rin 0:51
03 Xerrox Soma 7:11
04 Xerrox Meta Phaser 6:23
05 Xerrox Sora 6:54
06 Xerrox Monophaser 1 8:04
07 Xerrox Monophaser 2 5:31
08 Xerrox Teion 2:03
09 Xerrox Teion Acat 5:26
10 Xerrox Tek Part 1 5:28
11 Xerrox Monophaser 3 6:14


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