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Hello, posting has become difficult with my current connection is going crazy it connects and disconnects constantly, meanwhile I managed to post my final visit to Alva Noto , Carsten Nicolai's main alter ego N'Joy

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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Alva Noto and French poet and sound artist Anne-James Chaton have teamed up as ALPHABET.

The duo will release a self-titled LP through Noton, the label Alva Noto, real name Carsten Nicolai, has been running since Raster-Noton split in 2017. The album, which pairs Chaton's vocals with Nicolai's techno and experimental beats, is inspired by Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia compiled by the Spanish scholar Isidore Of Seville in the seventh century. ALPHABET spans 13 tracks, it explores the combinatorics between signs on one side and signals on the other. The performance, inspired by the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville twisting the scientific rigor to privilege phonetic acquaintances, revisits the strategies of representation invented by the man to tell the world around him in the digital age. Alphabet invites the spectator to immerse themselves in the multiple relationships that, through language and its digital translations, maintain words and things.
After many collaborations this new record by Anne-James Chaton and Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto speaks a new language, generated by the fusion of objective poetry and minimal music. From the dialogue of the graph and the glitch a poetics of the code is born from which arises a representation of the contemporary world.



<a href="https://mir.cr/07IZFLQP">  Alva Noto & Anne-James Chaton -  Alphabet   .</a> (281mb)

01 A-Bu -> Bug -> Bu-Cr 5:57
02 Crime 2:38
03 Cr-Fo 4:22
04 Fou 2:11
05 Fo-Lu 4:14
06 Lune 2:22
07 Lu-No 3:13
08 Note 3:16
09 No-Qu 5:45
10 Quellie partie! 2:49
11 Qu-So 3:44
12 Sonnet 4:40
13 So-Zou 6:43


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Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto share recordings of their show at Sydney Opera House in 2018, yielding 80 minutes of sublime, glassy electronics; minimal but full of that light-handed emotive brilliance Sakamoto seems to always supply so generously, and with such little effort. Gorgeous, moving music.“Last year the duo undertook a series of live events entitled ‘TWO’ at Berlin’s Funkhaus, Barcelona’s Theatre Grec (closing Sonar Festival’s 25th Anniversary), London’s Barbican Centre and Melbourne’s Hammer Hall, before culminating at Sydney Opera House, where their two hour set was recorded and edited down, forming this album.

“Sharing a deep simpatico synergy, Alva Noto’s abstract electronic formalism contrasts and compliments Sakamoto’s exquisitely elegant piano finesse, which incorporates an individualistic take on classical, contemporary, minimalism and even a touch of jazz. At points melodic, atmospheric, gently rhythmic, textural and spatial, audio headspaces range from intimate and serene womb-like flotation, infinite fathoms of dark metaphysical expanse and moments of devastatingly poignant beauty. The sparing, subtle use of parts populating the mix belies a deceptively effective whole, which indicates two masters’ skill and confidence in being able to say something profound with an intentionally restricted sonic vocabulary. At all times the album maintains a calm poise, and despite its improvised nature withholds an innate harmony and graceful order. Like two aural architects free-drawing, this is sound design for better living.”



<a href="https://multiup.org/dc30c7d288f07b59cb15040fb90428e3">   Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - TWO. Live at Sydney Opera House   </a> ( flac 416mb)

01 Inosc 7:16
02 Propho 5:49
03 Trioon II (Live) 5:43
04 Scape I 2:52
05 Berlin (Live) 5:28
06 Scape II 1:54
07 Morning (Live) 4:15
08 Iano (Live) 4:28
09 Emspac 4:45
10 Kizuna (Live) 4:30
11 Gitrac 3:54
12 Monomom 6:44
13 Panois 2:45
14 Naono (Live) 11:07
15 The Revenant Theme (Live)

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Using the process of copying as a basis, the Xerrox series deals with the manipulation of data by means of endless reproduction. Due to the inherent fallacy of the procedure involving the making of copies made from other copies, everyday’s sounds become so altered that they can be hardly associated with the source material. As a result, entirely new sounds are created: copies of originals become originals themselves.

Following Xerrox Vol. 1 (2007), Vol. 2 (2009) and Vol. 3 (2015), Carsten Nicolai continues the pentalogy eluding the accuracy and precise sound design for which he’s renowned, and turning to a more harmony-driven composition technique.
Unlike the previous Xerrox albums, whose starting point is a set of samples extracted from external sources and fragments of recordings, Vol. 4 compounds under a unified cinematic soundscape, warm chords, thrumming digital ambiences, liquified electronics, drones, and noise sustained by floods of strings. The tension between the organic warmth and static curves, broads tones into distant roars and electronic cascade of sounds. While Alva Noto's oeuvre is predominantly affiliated with pristine sound design, Xerrox holds more intimate gestures and emotional sensibility. This fourth volume shuns further from the conceptualism and orderliness of prior musical outputs, ranging from heart-warming elegies to mind-bending sci-fi projections in extrasolar territories.

<a href="https://multiup.org/download/cee8e38586ee5e9f055c5bc8c6ebf19c/Alv%20Nt%20Xrx%204.zip">  Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 4    </a> ( flac 340mb)

01 Xerrox Kirlian 6:12
02 Xerrox neige 4:55
03 Xerrox voyage 3:50
04 Xerrox plongée 5:36
05 Xerrox Cosmos 3:52
06 Xerrox île 6:24
07 Xerrox Argo 5:32
08 Xerrox Calypsoid 1 4:32
09 Xerrox canaux 4:13
10 Xerrox Utopia 3:06
11 Xerrox sans retour 4:23
12 Xerrox Calypsoid 2 11:06
13 Xerrox apesanteur 4:32
14 Xerrox néant 2:54

 
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Featuring reworks by Fatima Al Qadiri, Ben Frost, JASSS, Florian Kupfer, Luis Da Silva, the EP includes 5 remixes of Uni Blue, Uni Sub, Uni Normal, taken from Alva Noto’s last solo-album released in March last year.

A new edition in the Uni series – started when Alva Noto was booked to play live at the club UNIT in Tokyo – UNIEQAV is an outlet for his more rhythmic and dancefloor-oriented work. Enlisting friends and collaborators, such as Fatima Al Qadiri, Ben Frost, JASSS, Florian Kupfer and Luis for remix duties, “Uni Blue” has been given a unique, new spin.



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/BPYB4"> Alva Noto - Unieqav (Remixes)</a> ( flac 224mb)

01 Uni Sub (Fatima Al Qadiri Remix) 4:13
02 Uni Normal (Ben Frost Remix) 6:57
03 Uni Blue (JASSS Remix) 9:05
04 Uni Blue (Florian Kupfer Remix Version 1) 6:32
05 Uni Blue (Luis Da Silva Remix) 7:47

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Alva Noto has covered "A Forest" by The Cure.

The new version, which has been approved by the band's frontman Robert Smith, is beatless and ten minutes long.

"I was 15 years old when the song was released," Nicolai says. "At the time my desire for good music started to grow, and, of course, I would look for sounds that reflected the time and age I was living. 'A Forest' is now a classic, and I can't think of another song which could be more representative of the band than this single—40 years after its release, I still bow to it and feel grateful that it exists."




<a href="http://depositfiles.com/files/lzf44bv7r">  Alva Noto - Modul 4 + A Forest.+ Uni Normal</a> ( flac 178mb)

01 Modul 4 20:23
02 A Forest.9:59
03 Uni Normal (Ben Frost Remix) 6:55

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