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saw alva.noto playing in dublin recently and was very impressed,but i'd never heard of him beforehand...can anyone give me some basic information on him? i literally know nothing about him except that he's german...has he released much music? what would be a good starting point? cheers, robin

― robin, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the best one i've heard was hios recent astonishing collaboration with Ryoji Ikeda (he goes under his real name - Carsten Nicolai on this one). pretty much anything on his raster noton label is worth a listen, as are his releases on mille plateaux.

more here

― stirmonster, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

(carsten nicolai is playing tomorrow at LSO st luke's, old street)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I like almost all I have heard of alva.noto.

alva.noto & ryuchi sakamoto, "trioon 1".

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

He's also a visual artist, and uses his glacial music in glacial installations, like the rather impressive one a couple of years ago at Watarium, Tokyo, or an installation last month at the Neue Nationalgalerie here in Berlin.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

do not miss a live show (precisely because of the visual component)

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

damn, I should've bought the sakamoto/alva noto disc on sale yesterday...

well worth going, this -- the visuals were effectively a score you could lock into...kind of solves the 'problem' of a laptop gig, and my problem with the strict-ness. was thinking of an updated kraftwerk but they don't write hooks. not yet, anyway.

Just before the interval yasuno tone was there to perform his new work. I sat at the balcony and did I count the ppl walking out? guilty as charged...lost count but it couldn't have been more than 10% of the audience (I'm lame at counting). I haven't played tone much, the whole thing had what i imagine it to be a fluxus feel to it and sharp-ish contrast to raster-noto. It appeals to yr industrial 'fuck everybody' sensibilities, if you happen to have them. The perf consisted of him drawing chinese characters into his laptop. here are the details.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I know what that link is saying but if it was just a tape broadcast on the surround sound w/ him just drawing characters it's fkn funny. I think you can listen to it if you look around the site. all the perfs will be broadcast on one of these saturdays.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Revive! I was listening to "for" today on the basis of a review in the Wire, and it sounded great, and then to "Optofiles" (randomly downloaded) and it sounded even more awesome. Possibly this is just because I haven't listened to any experimental elctronica for a long time, but I'm inclined to think that this is genuinely great music. Anyone else?

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

track 4 from Transform is the one that rips the rhythmic grid from "Bug-A-Boo" by Destiny's Child and replaces the drums sounds with sinewaves and clicks

great to dj them both at the same time

Taking sides: Alva.Noto vs. Aldo Nova

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm inclined to think that this is genuinely great music. Anyone else?

*raises hand*

Opto Files, Transform, and Prototypes are all very rewarding. The records with Sakimoto (sp?) are more ambient (as in Music For Airports) bit I still like them. His recording for the 20 To 2000 series is also excellent, that was my first taste. Probably my favorite artist of that whole minimal electronic scene.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

'Xerrox' streaming on luisterpaal (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/) and it sounds great.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

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