Alva Noto returns with a second installment in his five-part planned Xerrox series. On this follow up to Xerrox Vol. 1 (Raster-Noton, 2007), Carsten Nicolai turns up the volume in static electricity working with the concept of copying sounds. A copy of a copy of a copy in digital format may be flawless, so what does Nicolai do? For this feat, Nicolai along with Christoph Brünggel created a "sam..
Having just watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" within a week of each other anyone would be primed for the peculiarly beautiful music of Alva Noto (alias of Carsten Nicolai, an East German born "sound artist"). By coincidence I found out from reading his biography that he recently contributed a track to a compilation entitled In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky.
Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol 1Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto, best known for minimal, pristine digital glitch-scapes of micromusic, makes a relatively large stylistic turn with the first installment of the (hopefully many) Xerrox albums. Instead of vacuum spaces of austere clicks (which are nice!) here we get slow-moving washes of breathing digital sound. Think of a cross between his earlier work, Tim H
Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol 1Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto, best known for minimal, pristine digital glitch-scapes of micromusic, makes a relatively large stylistic turn with the first installment of the (hopefully many) Xerrox albums. Instead of vacuum spaces of austere clicks (which are nice!) here we get slow-moving washes of breathing digital sound. Think of a cross between his earlier work, Tim H
Alva Noto returns with a second installment in his five-part planned Xerrox series. On this follow up to Xerrox Vol. 1 (Raster-Noton, 2007), Carsten Nicolai turns up the volume in static electricity working with the concept of copying sounds. A copy of a copy of a copy in digital format may be flawless, so what does Nicolai do? For this feat, Nicolai along with Christoph Brünggel created a "sam..
Having just watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" within a week of each other anyone would be primed for the peculiarly beautiful music of Alva Noto (alias of Carsten Nicolai, an East German born "sound artist"). By coincidence I found out from reading his biography that he recently contributed a track to a compilation entitled In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky.