Hello, looks like Carsten Nicolai is rather popular here, excellent., reason enough to post more work by him aand his friends these 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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<a href="http://depositfiles.com/files/ey0s4a290"> Alva Noto - Décade ( With Anne-James Chaton And Andy Moor) .</a> 207mb
01 Chapitre 1: En ville 10:35
02 Chapitre 2: US Border 1:01
03 Chapitre 3: Préparatifs 1:36
04 Chapitre 4: In the ISS 7:07
05 Chapitre 5: Calculus 4:59
06 Chapitre 6: On Stage 4:48
07 Chapitre 7: Back in Town 4:04
08 Chapitre 8: Nihon No Tabi 8:16
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Diamond Version is a meeting between Raster-Noton operator Olaf Bender (aka Byetone) and label associate and fellow experimental techno producer Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto). They've been joined by Atsuhiro Ito, who uses the Optron -- an instrument of the musician's making described as modified fluorescent tubes that provide "noisist counterpart." When Bender and Nicolai formed Diamond Version, the two already had a long history of working together; beside Frank Bretschneider, they produced several releases under the name Signal. Signed to pioneering electronic music label Mute, Diamond Version debuted in September 2012 with EP1, a short set of pared-down but muscular techno. Additional numbered EPs of similar construction followed that November and December, as well as the following March and May. Leslie Winer, Kyoka, and Neil Tennant contributed vocals to a full-length album, CI, issued in 2014. 
<a href="https://multiup.org/ba334abc85f11c46d6295acdb509eacd"> Diamond Version - EP 1-3 </a> ( flac 536mb)
01 Technology at the Speed of Life 7:36
02 Empowering Change 6:58
03 Empowering Change (Version) 3:00
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04 Science for a Better Life
05 Shift the Future
06 Forever New Frontiers
05 Operate at Your Optimum 3:59
06 Sense and Simplicity 3:47
07 Make.believe 7:05
08 Get Yours (Martin L. Gore Remix) 5:19
<a href="https://multiup.org/9d43f2d632a934581832d1476759b84b"> Diamond Version - EP 4-5 </a> ( flac 462mb)
01 Get Yours 3:11
02 Get Yours (Version) 4:53
031 Live Young 4:47
04 When Performance Matters 5:59
05 The Future of Memory 5:05
06 Operate at Your Optimum 3:59
07 Sense and Simplicity 3:47
08 Make.believe 7:05
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When the Raster-Noton label's Olaf Bender (aka Byetone) and Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) formed Diamond Version, the experimental techno producers had been associated for several years -- as heard on their collaborations with Frank Bretschneider as Signal -- but they hadn't recorded as a duo. Rather than release their material on Raster-Noton, they signed with Daniel Miller's higher-profile Mute label. From September 2012 through May 2013, Bender and Nicolai issued five numbered EPs of pared-down, muscular techno. Rather refreshingly, there were no remixes; when the EPs were bundled later in 2013, a Martin Gore remix was added, but otherwise, the focus was on original material with tight quality control. CI, the first Diamond Version album, is a concise set that features edits of four tracks from the EPs: the driving neo-electro cut "Turn On Tomorrow," the gnashing "Science of a Better Life," the jittery "Make.Believe," and "Operate at Your Optimum," the last of which seamlessly incorporates noisy sounds from Atsuhiro Ito's Optron. The majority of the new tracks, like "Access to Excellence," "Raising the Bar," and "Connecting People," also have marketing slogan titles and seem even more physical since they're delivered in jolts briefer than those of the more dancefloor-oriented EPs. The duo also sought a handful of vocalists here. On opener "This Blank Action," Leslie Winer interjects with irritated barbs like "Congratulations on bein' a big fuckin' deal." Raster-Noton artist Kyoka adds more imposing phrases to "Feel the Freedom," the barest and most severe track on CI. As an instrumental, "Were You There" would easily fit into the album's fabric -- taut, irregular rhythms, hissing and probing effects -- but it involves an odd match with Neil Tennant's reading of the like-titled American spiritual. Otherwise, this is a fine exhibition of Bender and Nicolai's work in neatly condensed form. It isn't quite as thrilling as the EPs.
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/Z3oZ4"> Diamond Version - CI</a> ( flac 277mb)
01 This Blank Action 4:52
02 Access to Excellence 4:19
03 Turn on Tomorrow (CI) 4:49
04 Feel the Freedom 4:14
05 Raising the Bar 3:19
06 Were You There? 4:03
07 Operate at Your Optimum 3:35
08 Science for a Better Life (CI) 4:05
09 Connecting People 3:49
10 Make.Believe (CI) 6:11
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Though I've heard some people describe this as boring, Alva Noto himself said this is the most emotional music he's ever made, surprised at the level of depth from which the songs here on this third volume of the Xerrox series came. To me, it's quite the beautiful affair indeed, continuing the pattern set out by volumes 1 & 2 of the same series: lush ambient soundscapes, shifting synth-strings (or actual orchestration? sometimes it's hard to tell) and Noto's trademark glitchy noise, though this one relies far more on simple synthesized melodies that are surprisingly alluring and show that a great deal of care has gone into composing them. No doubt, it's vaguely classical, as if Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano work with Alva Noto and many similar artists were translated into a synth-exclusive environment. While I don't love everything the man does (and find most of his work a bit left-brained for my taste), this series is likely the deepest, most creative and expertly-executed music of his career.
<a href="https://mir.cr/14UENGPS"> Alva Noto -Xerrox 3.</a> ( flac 252mb)
01 Xerrox Atmosphere 1:23
02 Xerrox Helm Transphaser 6:45
03 Xerrox 2ndevol 3:44
04 Xerrox Radieuse 6:00
05 Xerrox 2ndevol2nd 5:05
06 Xerrox Isola 8:07
07 Verrox Solphaer 6:09
08 Xerrox Mesosphere 5:55
09 Xerrox Spark 6:10
10 Xerrox Spiegel 3:33
11 Xerrox Exosphere 3:48
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Thanks for That:)
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