An introduction to ryuichi sakamoto in 10 records unieqav is the third instalment in his uni series, which began when alva noto was booked to play live at the club unit in tokyo, and had to adapt his sound accordingly for that environment. The visual part was something totally similar with the optical part of the skrewell ensemble. It is one of a number of towns situated immediately to the south of the ochil hills, collectively referred to as the hillfoots villages or simply the hillfoots. Carsten nicolai september 18, 1965, known as alva noto, is a german musician. Back in 2008, noted experimentalist alva noto began a sporadic series of albums that were far more focused on dancefloorinspired rhythms than his usual eccentric and inspiring fare. Experimental artist alva noto announces new unieqav album. Transform, originally released on mille plateaux mp 102, 2001, is now being rereleased on rasternoton. Their debut album features chatons spoken word mutterings, which range from repeating a series of numbers to looped one word phrases via the annunciation of phonetic sounds, carefully filtered and layered into dark but inviting drones, cold wave and ambient experimentalism. For line, 2006 mise insieme registrazioni dei 2000 dedicati a vari compositori.
Allamhagh beag, meaning little plain of the rock is a small town in clackmannanshire, set in the central lowlands of scotland. Il connubio dei paesaggi elettronici alieni di alva noto e delle vignette per pianoforte di ryuichi sakamoto produssero i mediocri vrioon raster noton, 2003, insen asphodel, 2005 e revep rasternoton, 2006. In 2003, sakamoto collaborated with alva noto an alias of carsten nicolais to release vrioon, an album of sakamotos piano clusters treated by nicolais unique style of digital manipulation, involving the creation of microloops and minimal percussion. For his musical outputs he uses the pseudonym alva noto. They did the soundtrack for the helvetica documentary. Alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto site specific performance at. Primary solo alias of carsten nicolai, the pioneer of an intense, minimalist glitch aesthetic and cofounder of the rasternoton label.
Born 1965 in karlmarxstadt he is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science. Experimental artist alva noto announces new unieqav album release. Alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto site specific performance. Our filtering technology ensures that only latest alva noto files are listed. The album, released as cd, comes with a new cover and digitally remastered. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. Carsten nicolai is a german artist and musician based in berlin. Mar 21, 2005 alva noto is the operating alias of carsten nicolai, and with insen he continued the collaboration with ryuichi sakamoto that started with vrioon. Uni by studio carsten nicolai on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Carsten nicolai 18 september 1965, known as alva noto, is a german musician. Carsten nicolai once again shuns the pinpoint precision for which hes become renowned, turning to a more abstract yet harmonydriven working methodology.
Home infinite baseball strange tools varieties of presence. The revenant soundtrack cd score ryuichi sakamoto alva noto leonardo dicaprio condition. Returning to his much lauded xerrox project, alva noto has delivered one of the most emotionally arresting albums weve heard in recent times. Ryuichi sakamoto oppenheimers aria experimental, hybrid.
This virus series concludes with a final installment of summvs, in which noto and sakamoto continue to explore the sparse electronic micro rhythms layered with abstract glitchy piano. The for any material published on this website is reserved. Also the whole manipulation on the sound was affecting it like the skrewell does. Any duplication or use of objects such as images, diagrams and. Alva noe is a philosopher and writer at the university of california, berkeley. Here are some that are currently in my music library, a few do have lyrics in various languages, but most have only vocals and. Alphabet is the pairing of french poet and sound artist annejames chaton with former rastonnoton man alva noto. Jan 25, 2018 alva noto aka carsten nicolai is releasing new lp unieqav, this march via his noton label. Click download file button or copy alva noto rar url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. With insen, alva noto aka carsten nicolai and ryuichi sakamoto continue their collaboration which started with vrioon. The debut album released on rasternoton in 2003 was voted record of the year 2004 in the electronica category by british magazine the wire. The album is apparently meant to be a sonic representation of an underwater dive, a conceptual theme which manifests itself through the.
Starting with rap and hiphop, then country music, and now the general rule is no lyrics. In 2003, sakamoto collaborated with alva noto an alias of carsten nicolais to release vrioon, an album of sakamotos piano clusters treated by nicolais unique style of digital manipulation, involving the creation of microloops. Alva noto biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Mp3 format technical details these mp3 tracks have been encoded with lame providing you with a very rich listening experience. Do you know any artists or composers whose music contains. Nicolais gossamerlike electronic processes combine with ethereal classic piano to create a tension filled conversation. Rather than in pop music, where the basic focus lies on harmonic and melodic forms, on transform they give way to pure rhythm structures derived from only sine tones and white noise, which nevertheless convey an emotional level. As with the first xerrox album, the starting point is a set of samples culled from external. This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. In this cooperation two different generations meet and share the idea of electronic music as an inspiration source for new musical structures. See more ideas about alva noto, berlin festival and the library of babel. If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading.